All the city's a stage for theatre effort

ONE of the most ambitious projects in Scottish theatre will be played out on the longest day of the year.

Plays which are just five minutes long are to be staged in farmyards, forests, pubs, bedrooms, treehouses, art galleries, and on rooftops and trains as part of a National Theatre of Scotland project.

A total of 235 plays will be performed live or broadcast online for 24 hours, from 5pm on June 21, to mark its fifth birthday.

Entries opened in February for the project, with one of the main criteria being that a play had to be staged before a live audience.

Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh will host a performance inspired by Victorian ghost stories, while five different shows will be staged at a school in East Lothian.