Made In Scotland Showcase

We were thrilled to be selected for the Made In Scotland Showcase for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 with Tales of Transatlantic Freedom.

The Showcase presents selected work which has been ….. made in Scotland … and we are in great company, check the link above.

Being notified in mid March about the showcase gave us a few short weeks to register for Fringe 2023 and we hot-footed it around numerous venues to identify a place which could accommodate a grand piano, have the right acoustics for a music-based piece and ideally be able to be seen from all or at least three sides.

As we had previously worked with the beautiful room at Nicolson Square Edinburgh, the Methodist church hall, when producing <<<WeCameToDance>>> in 2021. We knew the room would be great for sound and the audience sit on three sides of a thrust stage. Luckily there were slots available for us to fit a run of shows for presentation in the second week of the Fringe, the international week where the Showcase team give us a platform to connect with their international delegates.

For the Showcase we were determined to incorporate new research and material to delve deeper into the themes of the show. During 2023 Tales of Transatlantic Freedom was performed in Charlotte, North Carolina in the area of Brooklyn, the Black community’s neighbourhood, in the 1960’s the community was physically razed and the residents and businesses displaced during Charlotte’s ‘urban renewal’. Andrea discovered that a similar crime against the African diaspora had taken place in Africville, Halifax, Nova Scotia where a Black community and settlement demolished under the guise of economic necessity. The story and related music and poetry had to be part of the show.

There is much excitement about the upcoming show with Tales of Transatlantic Freedom being identified as a stand-out show to look out for this year by the Scotsman’s Brian Ferguson.

Check out our page about the show TALES OF TRANSATLANTIC FREEDOM and more about the wonderful co-creators Andrea Baker and Howard Moody.