Positive Stories Festival

We are delighted to be bringing back the Positive Stories Festivals building on the incredible success of Season 3 where over 300 young people performed their chosen plays at major theatres across Scotland.

This Season promises even more and we are excited to present this years plays performed by Beath High School, The Lyceum Youth Theatre, The Drama Mill, Nairn Youth Theatre, Firefly Arts, Studio 38, Wonder Fools Youth Board and Rosehill High School.

Plays by Travis Alabanza, Ella Hickson, Douglas Maxwell, Bryony Kimmings and Leyla Josephine.

Positive Stories for Negative Times is an international participatory project offering organisations who work with young people a process, newly commissioned plays and training by the best theatre artists working in the UK free of charge.

Wonder Fools and the Traverse Theatre have presented four seasons of the project so far, reaching over 14,000 young people from 24 different countries including UK, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, Italy and Sweden.

To find out more about this free project, please visit www.positivestories.scot

Positive Stories Festival is part of the Traverse's £1 Ticket Project.

Design by Orlando Lloyd, Illustration by Molly Fairhurst

Positive Stories for Negative Times: Season 4 is produced by Wonder Fools in association with Traverse Theatre, Citizens Theatre, Tron Theatre, Theatre Royal Dumfries, An Lanntair and Youth Theatre Arts Scotland with plays co-commissioned by Wonder Fools and Traverse Theatre.

Supported by Creative Scotland, the Gannochy Trust, Hugh Fraser Foundation, William Syson Foundation, and Barcapel Foundation.

The Traverse Theatre is funded by Creative Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council

Fri 13 Jun

7.30pm – 8.15pm: Beath High School – We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza

8.30pm – 9.15pm: The Lyceum Youth Theatre – Roman Cardboard Swift by Ella Hickson

Sat 14 Jun

4:30pm – 5.15pm: The Drama Mill – At First I Was Afraid…I Was Petrified! by Douglas Maxwell

7.30pm – 8.15pm: Nairn Youth Theatre – We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza

8.30pm – 9.15pm: Firefly Arts - Revolting by Bryony Kimmings

Sun 15 Jun

4.30pm – 5.15pm: Studio 38 – Miss Campbell’s Class Fifth Period by Leyla Josephine

7.30pm – 8.15pm: Wonder Fools Youth Board

8.30pm – 9.15pm: Rosehill High School – We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza

If you have access requirements, please contact our Sales and Welcome Team on boxoffice@traverse.co.uk or 0131 228 1404 so we can arrange reserved seating for you and discuss how else we can best support your visit.