The Three Craws on Radio ECFM 107.6

We are delighted to have returned to East Coast FM 107.6 community radio, https://eastcoastfm.co.uk/ after a break since 2013, to give performances currently every last Thursday of the month at 9 am, with a different script each month.  You can listen in through the internet via the link above, or through your FM radio in house or in your car on ecfm 107.6.  Watch out for upcoming links on my website to voice recorded snippets from these short, fun plays in Scots dialogue demonstrated by The Three Craws coming from different regions in Scotland, such as East Lothian, Fife and near Aberdeen where Doric dialect originates from.  Narration is in plain English.

If you would like to have a go at being a Craw, or indeed purchase scripts and/or merchandise for an in-school performance to promote the use of Scots language, and find out about local and national history, events and traditions in a fun way, please contact me on ritabradd@ritabradd.com .  Suggested age range, 8 upwards, or from P4.

I am also open to commissions, reference Play 9 which was built around local knowledge provided to me by generations of mining families of school children at Cockenzie Primary School to mark the demolition of the power station chimneys, or ‘lums’.  It was a real thrill to receive the information, as well as drawings by some of the children.

Here is the current list of available plays.  Again, if you would like your school or community group to put on any of the plays, please contact me on the link above.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Rita

January        – Play 1   TTC Gaun Tae Rabbie Burns’ Birthday Pairty At The Globe Inn, Dumfries

February     – Play 2    TTC Gaun Aw Lovey-Dovey

March          – Play 3    TTC An The Mysterious Licht At Sunny Dunbar

April             – Play 4    TTC Hae A Strange Eggsperience

May              – Play 5    TTC Find Oot Aboot The Saltire An The 3Harbours Festival

June             – Play 6    TTC Discover Gowf An the  Braw Views Frae North Berwick Law

July               – Play 7    TTC Find Oot Aboot The National Museum O Flight

August         – Play 8   TTC Meet John Muir At Sunny Dunbar

September – Play 9   TTC An The Dounfaw O Cockenzie Power Station Lums

October       – Play 10 TTC An A Spooky Dook Fer Aipples

November  – Play 11 TTC Gaun Tae Bayeux Wi The Battle O Prestonpans Tapestry

December   – Play 12 TTC An The Bairn In A Manger

 

 

The Three Craws Gaun Tae Rabbie Burns’ Birthday Pairty At The Globe Inn, Dumfries 2018

This is our fifth year performing my play in Scots Language with plain English narration in The Globe Inn, Dumfries – Robert Burns’ favourite drinking hole in which he discussed and read poetry with friends.  It’s a wee room full of interesting pictures and objects and a wonderful fireplace.  The Poet’s chair stands in a corner and it’s lovely to sit on it and hope that some of his talent might be absorbed!  We are delighted to be returning, and this year we have a special … a workshop on the script and music!

Come and hear what happens when The Three Craws leave their perch on Edinburgh Castle wall and fly south to Dumfries where the smell of haggis tempts them to the unthinkable, and they have to suffer the consequences.  The Three Craws meet Tam O’Shanter and Meg escaping from the witch Nannie Dee and her coven, find some spooky writing on the windows of The Globe Inn and more!

The schedule is :

Saturday 20th January

1 pm –       Performance in Rabbie’s Howff in The Globe Inn

2 – 3 pm –  Workshop in the Bakers Oven

4 pm –        Performance in Rabbie’s Howff in The Globe Inn

Sunday 21st January

Afternoon performances in Rabbie’s Howff, The Globe Inn, with musical interludes at –

1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm.

Events are FREE, bucket donations welcome …

We hope to see you there!

The Three Craws Gaun Tae Rabbie Burns’ Birthday Pairty At The Globe Inn, Dumfries

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The Three Craws had a great time in Dumfries on 25 January 2015 celebrating Scots bard Robert Burns’ birthday! We were thrilled to do three rehearsed readings of  ‘The Three Craws Gaun Tae Rabbie Burns Birthday Pairty At The Globe Inn, Dumfries’ on Rabbie’s actual birthday in his actual howff where he would gather for blethers with friends and also wrote poetry.  Here are The Three Craws lined up from left to right:

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Craw One      –  Wesley Bradd

Craw Two      –  Bob Mitchell

Craw Three   –  Melissa Bradd

 

 

This was our second experience performing beyond the studios of East Coast FM Radio 107.6, where we had broadcast a new play every month from December 2012 to September 2013, which was when we went to Bayeux, and Nicola Louise Shepherd was the original Craw Three.

I then went to Australia with clipper ship City of Adelaide and the Craws had a well-earned rest.

Steven Hill of Dunbar T-Shirt Shop http://dunbartshirt.com/ gifted me this for Christmas 2014 (available from Merchandise).

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I ordered some Haggis Truffles (seriously!) from Thinking Chocolate in Edinburgh, stuffed them into the boxed sets of mug and coaster and took them down to Dumfries, where they galloped away faster than Tam ‘O Shanter’s horse, Meg!

We returned to Dumfries on 31 January 2015 for the close of the Big Burns Bash.  Here are the Craws again, this time Craw Three is Alice Kinloch.  This was her first  ever outing as a Craw, and she did a fantastic job.

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Here are The Three Craws outside Robert Burns House where we did two shows.  Hugh Brydon http://www.hughbryden.com/ came along and I was really privileged and delighted when he presented me with this beautiful pure silk signed limited edition tie …

 

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