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The Three Craws on Radio ECFM 107.6

By Rita Bradd

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 An The Mysterious Licht At Sunny Dunbar

By Rita Bradd

On 7 October 2017, Coast Properties, North Berwick held an open day at Barnsness Lighthouse, Dunbar.  It was the perfect chance to give The Three Craws An The Mysterious Licht At Sunny Dunbar another outing.  It was  great to have a large audience from youngsters to those with a few more years under their hats, all of whom appeared to enjoy the show.

 

 

The Three Craws An The Mysterious Licht At Sunny Dunbar

By Rita Bradd

The Three Craws An The Mysterious Licht At Sunny Dunbar is No. 11 in my series of plays based on the crows sung about in the traditional Scots ditty ‘Three Craws Sat Upon A Wa’.  I wrote the script in 2015 and it was first performed as part of Dunbar’s Coastword Festival of Words.

We were invited to perform in the brand new outdoor space within The Battery on Lamer Island, Victoria Harbour, Dunbar.  We did not quite make being the first performers in the new space, but were close, as second.

The space is amazing, there’s an historical timeline in the path leading to the entrance.  Once inside, there’s a wooden platform and seating, with the names of the Weather Forecast carved in.  There are stainless steel cubes.  Read …

https://dunbarbattery.org.uk/the-location/public-art/

A fan enjoys a hot cuppa from a ‘The Three Craws’ mug,

available via my Shop