Macrobert Arts Centre Competitors

A truly unique and stunning venue in the heart of Glasgow’s West End. Formerly Kelvinside Parish Church, Òran Mór, Gaelic for ‘great melody of life’ or ‘big song’, is a thriving arts & entertainment venue in the heart of Glasgow’s West End. Guests can enjoy dining beneath our stunning celestial ceiling mural, which was painted by acclaimed Scottish artist and author Alasdair Gray and is Scotland's largest piece of public art. We also offer a Victorian Bar and Whisky Bar, John Muir Room Restaurant and Brasserie Restaurant, Private Dining Room, Live Music venue, Night Club, and the now internationally recognised ‘A Play, A Pie and A Pint’ lunchtime Theatre.

Eden Court is the theatre and entertainment venue for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and is Scotland's largest combined arts centre. We present a wide ranging and varied programme of live performances and films, as well as providing the largest programme of arts education in the UK. Our programme ranges from full scale opera to rock music, from large scale drama to stand up comics and from international modern dance to local community companies. We have two state-of-the-art cinemas, showing popular blockbusters, arthouse film and specialist cinema from around the world. Eden Court is also home to both the Inverness Film Festival and Inverness Book Festival and one of Scotland’s most popular Christmas pantomimes. We deliver our education programme throughout the region. During the last few years Eden Court has become a great success story. We have achieved consistent and substantial growth in audience numbers and are highly respected by our two major revenue funders – the Highland Council and Scottish Arts Council. Eden Court serves the whole of the Highlands of Scotland (an area similar in size to Wales). Over 30% of our audience travel for more than 90 minutes to attend a performance so we pride ourselves on looking after our audience and ensuring that their remarkable loyalty is repaid. Whether you focus on our unique education programme, the size of the region we serve or the variety of our programme, there really is no other theatre like us in Britain.

We are the Traverse - champion of stories and storytellers. The stories we share are by anyone and for everyone. As Scotland’s new writing theatre, established in 1963, the Traverse Theatre is a dynamic centre for performance, experience and discovery. Enabling people across society to access and engage with theatre is our fundamental mission. Our year-round programme bursts with new stories and live performances that challenge, inform and entertain. We empower artists and audiences to make sense of the world today, providing a safe space to question, learn, empathise and – crucially – encounter different people and experiences. Conversation and the coming together of groups are central to a democratic society, and we champion equal expression and understanding. We commission, produce and programme for existing and future audiences to offer new and exciting experiences for everyone, and our partnerships with other theatre companies and festivals enable us to present a wide range of innovative performances. The Traverse would not exist without our over-arching passion for talent development and embracing the unexplored. We work with the newest and rawest talent – with an emphasis on the Scottish-based – nurturing it to become the art, artists and performances that can be seen on our stages through a variety of creative learning and literary programmes. The timely, powerful stories that start life on our stages have a global impact, resulting in dozens of tours, productions and translations. We are critically acclaimed and recognised the world over for our originality and artistic risk, which we hope will create some of the most talked-about plays, productions, directors, writers and actors for years to come. As a registered Scottish charity (SC002368), we depend on support. Explore our website and find out how you can get involved. (Banner credit: Michael Dylan in Wilf, photo by Mihaela Bodlovic)