The Falkirk Town Hall. Instead of renovating, Falkirk Council has closed it and it’s going to be demolished, leaving the town with no large scale performance venue or arts centre. There are no plans for a replacement. As a Falkirk Bairn, I am so angry about this.
My home town of Falkirk, with a thriving artistic community, has lost its only large scale performing space and arts venue. Falkirk Town Hall has closed and is set to be demolished without a replacement being built. The local council should be ashamed.
hey
#thehighlife
fans, tonight’s episode is Dunk, (what you do with a biscuit) It’s the last and arguably the most surreal of the series. It stars legendary Molly Weir (flash cleans baths, without scratching) Enjoy!
@bbcscotland
@bbciplayer
Totally heartbroken to hear that beautiful Andy Gray has left us. A true comic wonder, brilliant actor and gorgeous man. I had so many laughs with him, onstage and off. A devastating loss to us all. Love and thoughts to his family and close friends 💔
#RIPAndyGray
📣 Today we announced
@BBCScotland
will be time-travelling on Saturday nights with our 90s season
Classics will include The High Life starring
@Alancumming
&
@forbesmasson
and Your Cheatin' Heart with Tilda Swinton
The season kicks off with Orphans this Saturday at 10PM
Pif Paf Pof
My heart goes Pif Paf Pof
Pif Paf Pof
I want to have it off
Pif Paf Pof
My heart goes Pif Paf Pof
I want to have it off
Till I cough
#thehighlife
✈️🏴
9 years ago, I played the Fool to Pete Postlethwaite's King Lear
@youngvictheatre
After the show, one night in March, my son Ramsay was born. Watching his first preview of
#FunHome
tonight at same theatre. I saw the dress run today. I was in bits. It's phenomenal.
#prouddadda
Wishing my son, Ramsay Robertson, all the best for his first performance as Young Jacob, tonight in Tom Stoppard’s
@LeopoldstadtLDN
@SFP_London
Gutted I cannot be there ❤️
🎶Air Scotia, Air Scotia for you we’ll do or die
Dinnae Fash yersel
Dae it awfy well
We are yours aye in the sky🎶
Episode 2 of
#TheHighLife
#Birl
on
@bbcscotland
tonight at 21.45 then
@bbciplayer
#RutgerHauerRIP
I did a film acting class with him at
@edinburghfest
many years ago. He told me and other students to remember that every one of us is unique and that we bring something extraordinary, that noone else can bring to a role- our lives, our experiences, ourselves. ❤️
Our 90s season continues on
@BBCScotland
Your Cheatin' Heart with Tilda Swinton is on at 9PM:
The High Life featuring
@forbesmasson
and
@Alancumming
is on at 9.50PM:
And Chewin' the Fat is on at 10.20PM:
I cannot believe my home town of Falkirk are going to lose their only large scale performance space. As a young boy, I made my first onstage appearance there. Please Help Save The Falkirk Town Hall.
#falkirktownhall
These arrived in the post today. Thank you
@bigfinish
Such a dream and a thrill to be part of a
@bbcdoctorwho
adventure with Christopher Eccleston
Thanks for all the Twitter love for
#thehighlife
@bbcscotland
@bbciplayer
Special mention to two people who did such amazing work on the series, the fantastic director
@StuntTeddy
and the brilliant cinematographer John Record. Here they are with me
@The_Globe
recently
#thehighlife
continues tonight on
@bbcscotland
at 21.50 and
@bbciplayer
with episode 4 Choob (a Scottish word for idiot or numpty) Look out for legendary Scottish Actor Ronnie Letham and the wonderful genius Jenny McCrindle, both sadly no longer with us.
We were thrilled to welcome
@Alancumming
to the RSC last week.
Alan, pictured here with
@forbesmasson
, watched a performance of The Magician's Elephant in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
#MagiciansElephant
🐘
I am concerned and upset for friends and colleagues who have resigned from
@EquityUK
Scottish Council over compulsory redundancy of Lorne Boswell. He and Scottish Equity were very supportive to me and my work in Scotland. I am dismayed at how my union,
@EquityUK
has handled this
Just spent some fantastic days of fun and boos
@The_Globe
as nasty Duke Frederick in
@CBeebiesHQ
As You Like It. My kids grew up with cbeebies, so it was an honour and a joy to join this extraordinary team of talented, beautiful, legendary people. Coming to
@BBC
in Spring
#baa
When I was a wee boy in the early 70’s, the Monkees were repeated on Saturday morning tv and I recorded the episodes on my cassette recorder and played the music as I danced down the streets with my pals in the summer holidays. I have loved them ever since.
#ripPeterTork
#thehighlife
geek facts The plane interior set was so big, those scenes were filmed in the old BBC studios in Queen Margaret Drive Glasgow, because it was then the largest BBC studio in UK
@bbcscotland
@bbciplayer
episode 3 is being screened tonight ✈️🏴
When I co-wrote
#thehighlife
I was introduced to Galton and Simpson in an office in the comedy corridor of the old BBC in White City. It was such an amazing experience to meet and talk to such legends. This is a great opportunity for aspiring writers.
Excited to announce I will be playing Robobanquo in my new musical, Moonbase Macbeth. Space 1999 meets Shakespeare’s tragedy. Weightless witches by Kirby’s Flying Ballet, laser sword dances, holographic tartan and a retro 80’s soundtrack. “In Space no one can hear you sing”
Here’s me at the Glorious
@The_Globe
as Master Page having a right good laugh with the magnificent and brilliantly funny Falstaff (Pearce Quigley) in
#MerryWivesofWindsor
Congratulations to my beautiful daughter Rua for passing all 10 of her GCSEs, including a distinction for English Language. I am such a proud Dadda! ❤️
@MelanieMasson1
After all the furore over the brutal demolition of Falkirk Town Hall without a replacement, I now understand that the beautiful Falkirk Library is under threat. What the actual Falkirk is going on in my hometown. The Arts are being obliterated by
@falkirkcouncil
@falkirk_herald
Enjoying working
@QueensTheatreH
Such a friendly and welcoming theatre. Well used and valued by the community, with an exciting programme of events. An integral part of the local economy. Wish my hometown Falkirk valued their theatre as much as Hornchurch value theirs.
If you missed
#TheHighLife
on BBC4 last night, fret not. It’s still available on
@BBCiPlayer
and the entire series is streaming on
@BritBox_UK
. As a consolation prize, here are Steve and Sebastian’s alter egos, the Kelvinside Men
@victorandbarry
I think my lockdown hair needs a bit of a trim! It was fun, clowning about and singing along with my amazing missus
@MelanieMasson1
at our Socially Distanced Singalong Disco today. Our
#stayingsafe
neighbours had a right laugh and a good boogie, dancing on their doorsteps!
@Alancumming
@edfringe
So much love back to you, Alan ❤️ What a fantastic blast we had, from Harry Younger Hall, through McNally’s with
@KarenKoren
, and oh those Assembly Rooms shows! The best of times. Happy
@edfringe
to all. X
Tonight’s episode 3 of
#thehighlife
is “Winch” (a Scottish word for snog or court...eg. .”are youse winchin’?” ) It’s being screened at 21.50 on
@BBCScotland
and then on
@bbciplayer
I am sad, owing to tech issues, I won’t be able to be in the celebration of beautiful, generous, genius
@AndyGray59
on the
@TheRossOwenShow
tonight. I loved Andy so so much and I feel so blessed to have had fun with him onstage/screen and off. What joy he gave us all! A legend.💔