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= Theatre Alba =

Theatre Alba was a Scottish theatre company established in 1981 by Charles Nowosielski (Artistic Director) and Richard Cherns (Musical Director) with the aim of promoting diversity to Scottish theatre by producing plays in the Scots language and encouraging new Scottish writing. By 2016, it was Scotland's longest surviving independent professional touring theatre company.

The company's first production was Edward Stiven's Tamlane, staged in the open air on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh, in 1981. It then moved to The Astoria, a former dance hall in Abbeymount, where it presented The Jeweller's Shop by Karol Wojtyla, The Passion, Part One by Bill Bryden, Swanwhite by August Strindberg, and the world premiere of The Shepherd Beguiled by Netta. B. Reid. Theatre Alba's production of The Pudock an the Princess by David Purves won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1985 and was taken on national tours by the company in 1986 and 1988.

In 1998, the company was invited to mount its Festival Fringe productions in Duddingston Kirk Gardens. It's first production there was a revival of Hettie B. Reid's A Shepherd Beguiled, and it continued to use the gardens as an August venue for more than twenty years. In 2002, the company introduced work for children under the direction of Clunie Mackenzie and Keith Hutcheon.

Productions

 * 1981: Tamlane, by Edwin Stiven
 * 1981: The Jeweller's Shop by Karol Wojtyla
 * 1981: The Passion, Part One, by Bill Bryden
 * 1981: Swanwhite, by August Strinberg
 * 1982: The Shepherd Beguiled, by Netta B. Reid
 * 1985: The Shepherd Beguiled, by Netta B. Reid
 * 1985: The Puddok an the Princess, by David Purves
 * 1986: The Puddok an the Princess, by David Purves
 * 1986: The Lass wi' the Muckle Mou, by Alexander Reid
 * 1987: The Warld's Wonder, by Alexander Reid
 * 1988: The Puddok an the Princess, by David Purves
 * 1989: Whuppitie Stourie by David Purves
 * 1990: The Time Gairden, by David Swan
 * 1990: The Carlin Moth, by Robert McLellan
 * 1998: The Shepherd Beguiled, by Netta B. Reid
 * 1998: Wallace's Women
 * 1998: Good Morning Mr. Burns, by Donald Mackenzie
 * 1999: Shakespeare at the Sheraton
 * 1999: The Thrie Sisters, play by Anton Chekov, translated into Scots by David Purves
 * 1999: Tamlane, by Edwin Stiven
 * 2000: Josef, by Raymond Ross
 * 2001: Thenew, by Margaret McSeveney
 * 2002: The Tragedie o MacBeth, by William Shakespeare, translated into Scots by David Purves
 * 2002: The Faery Queen, by Howard Purdie
 * 2002: The Carlin Moth, by Robert McLellan
 * 2003: The Burning, by Stewart Conn
 * 2003: The Enchauntit Gairden, by Charles Mackenzie
 * 2004: The Magic Quest, by Clunie Mackenzie
 * 2004: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare
 * 2008: Little Red Riding Hood, by Eugene Schwartz
 * 2008: Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw
 * 2009: The Fairy Queen, by Howard Purdie
 * 2009: A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt
 * 2009: The Ootlaw, by August Strindberg, translated into Scots by David Purves
 * 2010: The Seagull, by Anton Chekov, adapted by Jo Clifford
 * 2011: The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekov
 * 2012: Dancing at Lughnasa, by Brian Friel
 * 2013: The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
 * 2013: The Garden o' Delight, by Clunie Mackenzie
 * 2016: The Quest for Excalibur, by Clunie Mackenzie
 * 2016: The Shepherd Beguiled, by Netta B. Reid