Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2025: Lights of the North Announced Scotland’s world-leading storytelling festival returns 22 Oct–1 Nov with a northern theme, international guests and over 60 local events.

“…I feel honoured to be able to present the stories from my homeland, here in the land of my new home.”

Lights of the North (22 Oct – 1 Nov) links Scottish stories with northern Europe’s traditions.

Programme: wp.me/p91wLp-zErvp4I

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Bog Standard Review: Rachel Pugh’s Gripping Storytelling Debut at Tradfest ★★★★ Bog Standard is probably the sleeper hit of this year’s Edinburgh Tradfest. The debut offering from rookie storyteller - but award-winning journalist - Rachel Pugh plucks an episode from her earliest days in local journalism, transforming it into an engrossing adventure, laced with imagination and good humour. Of course, it helps that Rachel’s 1984 scoop concerned the discovery of…

Rachel Pugh’s debut storytelling performance at Tradfest 2025, ‘Bog Standard,’ blends history and personal narrative. A show that brings Lindow Man to life.

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Review: Through the Shortbread Tin Explores Scottish Myth ★★★★ A poetic journey through Scotland’s stories and silences Martin O’Connor’s Through the Shortbread Tin is a poet/theatre maker’s highly personal attempt to make peace with the national myth – and his own. With a mix of wry humour and a generous lacing of rhythmic speech, he introduces Scotland’s legend as fronted by Landseer’s ‘Monarch of the Glen’, only to dismantle its cultural origins, before asking whether it really matters if the stories we tell ourselves are the gospel truth.

🏴 “Never underestimate the power of poets bearing myths.”
O’Connor’s Through the Shortbread Tin mixes lyrical monologue, Gaelic song and sly humour to explore Scotland’s self-image.

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