Eric Branse-Instone6h ago

DunsPlayfest is fast approaching. Here is an insightful blog by our youngest Trustee about the joy of seeing your play brought to life through performance.

#Dunsplayfest #newWriting #theatre #ScriptToStage #EmergingArtists

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/bringing-worlds-to-life-by-jamie-mein

Bringing Worlds to Life by Jamie Mein

Writing a play can be very arduous and quite lonely. By the time the final draft is written I’m usually sick of my own words having read them over again and again, agonising over whether “that line is funny enough?” and wondering “does that line convey the message I’m trying to put across?” Eventually I can’t even begin to look at it. But all that changes at the first readthrough when actors give voice to my characters and the words leap off the page, afresh and anew. Their deliveries and interp

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Eric Branse-Instone4d ago
DunsPlayfest is fast approaching (first week in May) a nine day festival of new theatrical drama, here in Duns in the Scottish Borders.
#NewWriting #Theatre #communityTheatre #ArtsForAll #DunsPlayfest #ScottishBorders
Show threadEric Branse-InstoneFeb 28

And here is the full programme for #DunsPlayFest 2026

#newWriting #Theatre #LiveMusic #CommunityTheatre #EmergingTalent #Comedy

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4fd882545f.html

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Eric Branse-InstoneFeb 28

Duns PlayFest's Director (John McEwen) and Producer (Sara Best) talk about the packed programme for this year's festival (first week in May).
#DunsPlayFest #NewWriting #Theatre #CommunityTheatre #Duns #ScottishBorders

https://youtube.com/shorts/O3KdUip9Xz0?

Highlights of the programme!

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Eric Branse-InstoneDec 15

This is DunsPlayFest's youngest trustee, Jamie who has been part of community theatre since he was eight. He’s a regular onstage with Duns Players and at Berwickshire High School where he is currently doing Highers. He recently won the NODA North Councillor’s Rising Star Award.

He is also a writer/director whose play opened last year's DunsPlayFest, its sequel is booked for next year's festival.

#newWriting #theatre #DunsPlayFest #Berwickshire #BerwickshireHighSchool

Eric Branse-InstoneDec 12

So I wrote a Blog post for DunsPlayFest about the transformation of a drill hall into a magical space for new theatre.

#DunsPlayFest #CommunityTheatre #Theatre #Live_music #Duns #ScottishBorders #MentalHealth #NewWriting

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/setting-the-stage-how-dunsplayfest-transforms-volunteer-hall-into-a-theatre-wonderland-by-eric-bra

Setting The Stage by Eric Brans-Instone

Local Community in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders transforms Duns Volunteer Hall into a theatre for Scotland’s festival of new drama. Theatre in Berwickshire: A Community Without a StageThe eastern Scottish Borders has many community halls but completely lacks an actual theatre building. Despite this, it has a rich and vibrant community of playwrights and theatre groups, and has seen the rapid establishment of DunsPlayfest. This is an annual festival of new writing for theatre, that is becoming

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Show threadEric Branse-InstoneDec 9
@JackTheCat Yep wind has finally got to Berwickshire, just in time for me to have to go out to a first reading of a new play I'm in for next year's #DunsPlayFest
Eric Branse-InstoneDec 4

DunsPlayFest's patron and theatre impresario, Richard Demarco, has been named Scottish European of the year!

#ScotlandInEurope #DunsPlayFest #Theatre #EuropeanMovement

https://bylines.scot/politics/europe-politics/richard-demarco-scottish-european-of-the-year/

Eric Branse-InstoneNov 2

Here is DunsPlayFest's youngest playwright and trustee in conversation with this year's winner of the Hugo Burge Award.

#DunsPlayFest #theatre #emergingArtists #NewWriting

https://youtu.be/WspWq7xlP0o

2. Jessica Power

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Show threadEric Branse-InstoneOct 2

And on top of this news, just heard that DunsPlayFest's Festival Director, John McEwen and Producer, Sara Best, are off to the Thistle Awards this evening being in the final four of this prestigious award in the Outstanding Festivals Category.

#AccessibleTheatre #theatreFestival #emergingArtists #newWriting
#DunsPlayFest #Theatre