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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 03/07/2025

Molly Geddes will be playing PC Nicky McCreadie in the upcoming ALRIGHT SUNSHINE. Molly is an actor from Blantyre and a graduate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Previous credits: 🎭: Water Colour (Pitlochry festival theatre) 🎥: Dinosaur (BBC 3/Hulu), Bombing of pan am 103 (BBC/ Netflix)

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 02/07/2025

☀️ The COUNTDOWN to Alright Sunshine has begun! ☀️ When PC Nicky McCreadie responds to a mass brawl on Edinburgh’s Meadows, she finds herself face-to-face with a past she’d rather forget. 📍 The Pleasance (Jack Dome) 🗓️ 30 Jul - 24 Aug, 16:20 🎟️ Secure your tickets: www.pleasance.co.uk/event/alrigh...

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 16/06/2025

We have been so unbelievably busy these past 2 weeks with our Positive Stories For Negative Times Festivals a go! 🥳 We started at the Tron in Glasgow and then this past weekend, the Traverse in Edinburgh 🤩 Swiftly we'll be moving to Theatre Royal Dumfries this weekend! We cannot wait! 🔥🎉

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 02/06/2025

2/2 👉 Places are limited and granted on a first come first served basis. To book a place please email lisa@wonderfools.org and let us know which workshop(s) you would like to book.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 02/06/2025

1/2 📣 As part of this year's Positive Stories Festivals Wonder Fools are offering professional development workshops for youth theatre practitioners. The following workshops are free to attend and aim to help practitioners learn new skills and build their practice.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 28/05/2025

1/2 Thank you to Dominic Hill who today said farewell as a Wonder Fools trustee ahead of the Citizens Theatre reopening later this year. As a board member since our formation as a company…

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 21/05/2025

The first Positive Stories Festivals saw 300 young people take to the stage with 98% of them feeling more confident in drama. 🎭 Here’s what one festival participant had to say on their experience. 😁 The second edition of the festival is just two weeks away! #PSFNT4

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 20/05/2025

The second Positive Stories Festivals launches in just over two weeks at the @trontheatre.bsky.social 🥳 🎭 Here’s the groups and performance schedule. Tickets are currently on sale: www.tron.co.uk/whats-on/ #PSFNT4 #youththeatre #festival #youthfestival #glasgow #scotland

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 14/05/2025

A Christmas Carol has been nominated for Best Pantomime at the 2025 CATS Awards! 🥳 “We’re absolutely thrilled to be nominated. It was a real privilege to create a pantomime in the region I grew up in, with regular collaborators, panto legends like Graham, and at the very theatre where I first…

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 06/05/2025

The Positive Stories Festival returns next month for its second edition. 🤩 We are excited to reveal all the amazing participants joining us across our four festival hubs this year. Each group will be performing their chosen plays across all Positive Stories For Negative Times Seasons. 🥳

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 02/05/2025

Wonder Fools spent the week on the first development for a new play, Dark Harvest Comando. We’ve had a brilliant week at the NT studio with an incredible cast. Thank you to @nationaltheatre.org.uk for supporting & providing the Weston Studio to help us develop this new show.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 29/04/2025

Join us next Tuesday for the announcement of all participating groups for this year’s Positive Stories Festivals! 🥳 #PSFNT4 #youththeatre

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 17/04/2025

Thank you to National Theatre of Scotland, D&G Arts Fest, Up Yer Airts, Creative Scotland, The Hollywood Trust and The Galloway Association of Glasgow.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 17/04/2025

Thank you to the travelling communities of Dumfries, our young collaborators and apprentices, our incredible cast and creative team, our audiences, press and everyone at Theatre Royal Dumfries and Tron Theatre.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 17/04/2025

“This place, it requires you to suspend your disbelief”🎪 We want to take this time to thank everyone who has been involved in The Kelton Hill Fair. From a theatre workshop back in 2022 to selling-out at Theatre Royal Dumfries, it’s been a very special journey. 💖 #TheKeltonHillFair

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 15/04/2025

We’re excited to announce that the critically acclaimed Alright Sunshine by award-winning playwright @islacowan.bsky.social is coming to #EdFringe this Summer! ☀️ Produced by Wonder Fools the blazing powerhouse behind Fringe hit Òran. 🎟️ Full details, on sale now: www.pleasance.co.uk/event/alrigh...

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 11/04/2025

Òran will be touring Scotland this Autumn and we can’t wait to take our sold-out 2024 Fringe hit out on the road. Full tour information coming very soon 😈 Follow the Wonder Fools newsletter to be the first to find out and stay up-to-date. #Òran #theatre #edfringe #touringtheatre #scotland #tour

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 08/04/2025

We have an announcement soon! 👀 🌞

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 03/04/2025

Thank you for having us Creative Glasgow. ☺️ Here’s Wonder Fools’ Co-Artistic Director Robbie Gordon on a panel discussion for Developing Lives and Livelihoods - a creative education, training and professional development showcase from Creative Glasgow. ©️ Creative Glasgow 📸 by Eoin Carey

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 29/03/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “a visually stunning show” - @broadwayworld.bsky.social We’ve made it to our final performance of The Kelton Hill Fair, break a leg to our incredible cast and creative team. ❤️ #TheKeltonHillFair #theatre #glasgow #scotland #dumfries

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 28/03/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for The Kelton Hill Fair from @scotsman.com “Breathlessly sharp, witty and telling throughout” - Joyce McMillan Last chance to catch legendary Traveller King Billy Marshall‘s magical fair: www.tron.co.uk/shows/the-ke...

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 27/03/2025

The first review is in for The Kelton Hill Fair - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from @heraldscotland.bsky.social, Neil Cooper 🎪 Catch it until Saturday 29th March - @trontheatre.bsky.social #TheKeltonHillFair #theatre #glasgow #scotland #dumfries

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 27/03/2025

🎭 Happy #WorldTheatreDay - don’t miss The Kelton Hill Fair showing this evening until Saturday at @trontheatre.bsky.social Limited tickets available. 👇 🎪 www.tron.co.uk/shows/the-ke... #TheKeltonHillFair #theatre #glasgow #worldtheatreday2025

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 26/03/2025

🎟️ Tickets: www.tron.co.uk/shows/the-ke...

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 26/03/2025

The Kelton Hill Fair production photos are here! 🎪 It’s press night at @trontheatre.bsky.social. Break a leg to our amazing cast and creative team. 📸 Mihaela Bodlovic #TheKeltonHillFair #theatre #glasgow #scotland

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 21/03/2025

Due to cast illness, the role of Billy Marshall will now be played by Sam Stopford for the duration of the run. #TheKeltonHillFair #theatre #scotland #dumfriesandgalloway #dumfries #glasgow

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 19/03/2025

Scotland’s very own Rabbie Burns makes an appearance in The Kelton Hill Fair. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Here’s Laura Lovemore and Martin Donaghy teasing each other’s characters. We open in two days 🎪 #TheKeltonHillFair #theatre #glasgow #dumfries #dumfriesandgalloway

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 18/03/2025

What does Michael Dylan and Julie Wilson-Nimmo think of each others characters? 👀 The Kelton Hill Fair features the infamous murderer William Hare and feminist writer Lady Dixie! 📣 Opening this Friday at Theatre Royal Dumfries, limited tickets available. #TheKeltonHillFair #theatre

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 12/03/2025

A massive congratulations to Positive Stories for Negative Times Season 4 participants Beath High School for winning the SCDA Fife District Youth Festival award for their chosen play We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza 🙌🥳 #PSFNT4 #youththeatre #theatre

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 08/03/2025

🎵 Part Two: The Music of The Kelton Hill Fair🎵 Stuart Ramage and Roan Ballantine on the use of Scottish trad music and how these influenced and inspired the music and songs in The Kelton Hill Fair. 🎟️ www.wonderfools.org/projects/the... #theatre #glasgow #livemusic #dumfriesandgalloway

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 06/03/2025

Wonder Fools are excited to be on a panel discussion for Developing Lives and Livelihoods from Creative Glasgow. 1.15pm Panel 3: New Routes into the Creative Industries 🎟️ Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/creat... #creativeglasgow #glasgow #scotland

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 05/03/2025

Here's a sneak peek at some of the characters in The Kelton Hill Fair designed by our amazing Set & Costume Designer Jenny Booth. This is only a small glimpse into the vast and magical world we have created. 🎪✨ 👉 Many surprises await you: www.wonderfools.org/projects/the...

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 27/02/2025

Just a wee video of beautiful people in a room making theatre! 🫶 Rehearsals are in full swing, there’s singing, there’s movement, there’s laughter. More to be revealed in the coming days! 🎥 clips by Ruari Barber-Fleming #TheKeltonHillFair #Theatre #Glasgow #Scotland #DumfriesandGalloway

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 24/02/2025

We’ll be sharing a closer look at our upcoming production over the next couple of weeks. #Theatre #Glasgow #Scotland

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 24/02/2025

🤩 Today was the first day of rehearsals for The Kelton Hill Fair. We had a brilliant day bouncing ideas, a read through of the script, discussing the music and a look at the final set design. 📸 Ruari Barber-Fleming #TheKeltonHillFair

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 17/02/2025

2/2 We’re deep in planning mode, and we can’t wait to share what’s in store. Stay tuned in the coming months as we'll be announcing the full line up. 👀 #PSFNT4 #YouthTheatre #Theatre #Festival

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 17/02/2025

1/2 The Positive Stories Festival is returning this summer—bigger, bolder, and more exciting than ever! 🎭✨ Last year, over 300 young people took to major theatre stages across Scotland, bringing their chosen Positive Stories plays to life. This year, we’re raising the bar.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 12/02/2025

In Oct 2022, we worked with 5 young collaborators from Dumfries & Galloway to come up with a concept for a new show. Through these workshops, The Kelton Hill Fair was born. 🙌 Here’s a throwback of Charlie and Sara talking about the importance of stories from D&G. 🎥 Ruari Barber-Fleming

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 06/02/2025

2/2 …We are really enjoying the style of acting within this piece and all of the chorus work. Everyone is so enthusiastic, especially our Mrs Dame as you can see!” - Gerry Griffin, Drama Teacher We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza #PSFNT4 #Theatre #YouthTheatre

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 06/02/2025

1/2 Participants all over the world are working on their chosen plays from Season 4 and we love seeing and hearing how much fun they’re having 🥰. “Here at Wallace Hall Academy we are loving working on our piece ‘We aint moving’. We have assigned our cast and are now beginning to block. (Con)

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 04/02/2025

📣 Meet the cast of The Kelton Hill Fair Teenager Flora is on the run. Defiant but desperately alone, until she stumbles upon a mysterious fair run by the legendary Billy Marshall. 🎪 Theatre Royal Dumfries, 21-22 March 🎪 @trontheatre.bsky.social, 25-29 March #KeltonHillFair #Theatre #Scotland

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 30/01/2025

3/4 productions with national reach, and develop the next generation of socially engaged artists. It also gives us the stability to invest in our team, making Wonder Fools a sustainable organisation for the future. We’ve always believed in making high-quality theatre that is both popular…

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 30/01/2025

2/4 That vision has driven us ever since, and this funding gives us the long-term backing to build on it in a meaningful way. Over the next three years, this support will allow us to engage thousands of young people through Positive Stories for Negative Times, produce multiple ambitious theatre…

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 30/01/2025

1/4 We are absolutely thrilled that Wonder Fools has been awarded Multi-Year Funding from @creativescots.bsky.social to deliver our most ambitious programme yet. Twelve years ago, we met as students with a vision to create theatre that is bold, socially engaged, and reaches far and wide.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 27/01/2025

We’re dropping the teaser trailer for our upcoming production of The Kelton Hill Fair tomorrow at 10am. 👀 This show is set to be the next big Wonder Fools production on the scale of 549..perhaps bigger. We can’t wait to share more with you soon! 🤯 #theatre #scotland #thekeltonhillfair

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 24/01/2025

1/2 On the final night of an unsettling Scottish tour with queer music collective The Scottish Queer Animals, Bunny Baxter discovers the importance of finding your tribe. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ The new play by @jley.bsky.social also features recorded songs participants can use as part of their projects.

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 22/01/2025

This season, we’re welcoming loads of new participants from around the world as well as returning groups from past seasons in record numbers. 🙌 ☺️ Plays are free and available to use until September 2025. Browse this season’s plays at positivestories.scot #PSFNT4 #YouthTheatre #Theatre

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 21/01/2025

An angry overhead announcement. The sound of bulldozers. One drama block at risk of being demolished. Can the students save their building? 🪧 We Ain’t Movin’ is a fun and playful story about activism, friendship and solidarity. Read an extract here: positivestories.scot/plays/we-ain... #PSFNT4

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 18/01/2025

📣 The application deadline for our apprenticeship scheme is next Wednesday. We are looking for 5 young people (aged 16-25) in Dumfries & Galloway to become apprentices and work with us on The Kelton Hill Fair. 🔗 www.wonderfools.org/backstage/ke... #DumfriesandGalloway #Theatre #Scotland

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Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org · 10/01/2025

📣VENUE ANNOUNCEMENT📣 The Kelton Hill Fair will be opening at Theatre Royal Dumfries. Be transported on a riveting journey through time with Flora, who discovers a mysterious fair led by legendary Billy Marshall in this thrilling new production. 🎪 🎟️: www.theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk/whats-on/kel...

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