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27: 92: 129:, a time of increasing calls to revive many of the cultural and political institutions in Scotland which were perceived as moribund at this period, including native theatre. Serious professional theatre in Scotland had more or less lapsed by the 1880s and the first twentieth century attempt to revive it faltered with the demise of 222:. Miscasting in professional productions of McLellan's Scots plays was a regular complaint for the playwright, often in contrast to amateur productions of his Scots in which actors without formal training gave sympathetic and authentic delivery of the language. 192:, first developed their skills and methods through performance with the more innovative non-professional companies listed above. Similarly, native playwrights who wished to present authentic representations of Scottish life on the stage, such as 240:
during the 1950s, the number of amateur companies in Scotland, in common with the situation elsewhere, began to decline from its peak in the 1940s, but it still remains a vigorous part of Scottish cultural life.
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The SCDA has maintained a successful annual one-act drama festival since its inception, with one interregnum of five years (1940–45) during the Second World War.
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playwrights in particular were well served by non-professional theatre at a time when voicing for professional actors in
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No teaching institutions offered formal provision for training in Scottish styles of performance or
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and others, first came to attention generally through amateur productions of their plays.
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until the establishment of the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art in 1950 (as part of the
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in 1942, Scotland finally began to develop a native professional theatre.
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Playing for Scotland: A History of the Scottish Stage, 1715-1965
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with the goal to promote native theatre. During the
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Scotland
English
Lowland Scots
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Renaissance
Alfred Wareing
Glasgow Repertory Theatre
World War I
Scottish National Players
interwar years
amateur theatre
Curtain Theatre
Grace Ballantyne
Scottish People's Theatre
Glasgow Unity
diction
Royal Scottish Academy of Music
Duncan Macrae
Roddy McMillan
Molly Urquhart
Joe Corrie
Robert McLellan

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