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Facebook Reel here promoting Firebrand Theatre' s production at next month's DunsPlayfest. Can't wait!

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Up for something a bit spooky? The latest show from Firebrand Theatre, 'The Land Beyond the Forest', showing at this year's DunsPlayFest, might be for you! Following the success of A Room of One’s Own and Ungetatable, Firebrand is thrilled to return to Duns PlayFest with a brand new play about the Scottish origins of Dracula. Honouring the vein of bringing the lives of women writers out of the shadows and into the light, The Land Beyond the Forest illuminates the little known Scottish novelist and anthropologist Emily Gerard (1849-1905) who solo walked the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania to unearth superstitions including how to kill a vampire and the first mention of Nosferatu; material which went on to inspire Bram Stoker to pen the best known Gothic novel of all time. Featuring Ellie Zeegen, this in-the-round performed reading fuses biographical material with Firebrand’s theatricality for a breathtaking journey into The Land Beyond the Forest. Made possible by Duns Play Fest. With thanks to Dacre Stoker, Experience Transylvania and the National Library of Scotland 🗓 Saturday 2nd May ⏰ 7:30pm 📍Volunteer Hall 🎫 https://tikt.link/dpf26Land Creative Scotland Firebrand Theatre Company Ellie Zeegen | Duns Play Fest

Up for something a bit spooky? The latest show from Firebrand Theatre, 'The Land Beyond the Forest', showing at this year's DunsPlayFest, might be for you! Following the success of A Room of One’s...

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Eric Branse-Instone 2d ago

And here is the two lead characters of the play that our teenager writer/director is working with doing a promo for DunsPlayfest where the play will be premiered

#NewWriting #DunsPlayfest #Theatre #teenager
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14 reactions · 17 shares | Davie and Alastair are venturing out of The Red Lion to DunsPlayFest! Will you be there too? Catch Davie and Alastair in The Red Lion: The Final Chapter at 12:30 on Saturday the 9th of May! Creative Scotland A Heart for Duns #newplay #livetheatre #emergingtalent #scottishborders #newtheatre #theatrefestival #berwickshire #scotland #Scottishfestival #scotlandstartshere | Duns Play Fest

Davie and Alastair are venturing out of The Red Lion to DunsPlayFest! Will you be there too? Catch Davie and Alastair in The Red Lion: The Final Chapter at 12:30 on Saturday the 9th of May!...

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Eric Branse-Instone 3d ago

Article in The List about DunsPlayfest!
#Theatre #DunsPlayfest #ScottishBorders #LiveMusic #CommunityTheatre #NewWriting

https://list.co.uk/news/duns-play-fest-rolls-out-programme-for-latest-celebration-of-the-arts-48220

Duns Play Fest rolls out programme for latest celebration of the arts

Cementing its reputation as a Fringe for the Scottish borders, Duns Play Fest will return this May

Eric Branse-Instone Apr 2

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-Instone Mar 28

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

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Eric Branse-Instone Feb 28

And here is the full programme for #DunsPlayFest 2026

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

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Eric Branse-Instone Feb 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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Jules 🍺Dec 25

Spotted this, supported by Ben Aaronovitch and the publisher Gonlancz

FUTURE WORLDS PRIZE 2026 IS OPEN FOR ENTRIES!

We're on the lookout for great works of science fiction and fantasy by new writers, so whether you're writing a space opera or a dystopian novel, a romantasy or a book set in a magical world...or something completely different, we want to hear from you.
https://www.futureworldsprize.co.uk/2026-prize/
#writers #writersofmastodon #newwriting #newwriters #newwriterswelcome #SciFiWriter

Eric Branse-Instone Dec 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-Instone Dec 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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