The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh is offering an exciting new training and development opportunity within our costume department, for a person from a refugee or asylum-seeking background.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about costume, fashion and theatre, to join us as we prepare for our annual Christmas production, “Cinderella: A Fairytale”. This traineeship is offered in partnership with Good Chance’s Stage Door programme.

The Costume Trainee will work closely with the Set and Costume Designer, Head of Costume, Costume Supervisor and Costume Makers to help realise the costume designs for the production - starting from the presentation of the final designs, working through until opening night of the Production. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside the costume team on all aspects of costume making, sewing, cutting, dying and finishing. They will also have the opportunity to work alongside the wardrobe running team, seeing how the costume designs are implemented into the production and how dressers work with the cast to ensure they are ready to go onstage.

This fixed term trainee role is being recruited by the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh to be managed in-house and will be embedded into the process, with support from Good Chance. The role will be spread across a number of weeks on a part time basis, to allow the candidate to see the entire process while doing other work or in training. Hours will then move to full time as the production goes into technical rehearsals and moves into the theatre. The role is designed to be fully flexible to allow the candidate to focus on areas of their own interest or expertise, and around other work, education or family commitments.

Do you know someone in your school or community group who would like to perform at the Fringe? Do you have a piece of theatre, poetry, circus, comedy, dance or small acoustic music acts you could perform? Or something else entirely?

Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get on stage on the bustling High Street at the heart of the festival, amid street performers, human statues and the Fringe-going crowd. Our Community Stage is located by the Mercat Cross on the High Street, near St Giles Cathedral.

Each slot on the stage is 30 minutes and must include all your set-up, performance and take down. Let us know if you’d like longer, and we will see what we can do. Please note that we have restrictions on loud instruments such as most drums and percussion instruments on the stage, and we can supply more information on this when you register your interest and tell us about your proposed act.

Delivered as either one-year full-time or part-time over two years, this MA programme will empower you to elevate your skills in leadership, management and sustainable business practices.

Join us from anywhere in the world – the programme can be completed entirely online or combined with in-person residency intensives. You also have the option to take accredited short courses to add to your learning experience and enrich your personalised journey.

The programme is delivered in modules, where you’ll be supported by RCS lecturers and industry experts to critically engage with your practice and to refine your identity as thinker, maker and leader. Core to the programme is the exploration and critical thinking around contemporary leadership and management theory, enabling you to upskill, reskill or take your career forward as a change-maker in the arts.

You will be part of a thriving and collaborative learning community with opportunities to share thinking, challenge assumptions and develop your distinctive competencies within a supported framework.

We welcome applications from a range of creative disciplines and backgrounds. You’ll have strong technical skills in your specialist practice but will work in RCS’s multidisciplinary environment, opening up the potential for cross-collaboration that reflects the nature of the creative industries.

Enjoy being part of a dynamic international community at RCS, a global leader in performing and production arts education, where you’ll build a professional network to develop your career.

Study from anywhere in the world. Delivered through blended or fully online learning, this one-year programme will help you shape your creative identity, develop critical thinking skills and build a sustainable career in the performing and production arts

This one-year, practice-led, modular programme for creative graduates will evolve your practice and enhance employability in a world-leading performing and production arts education environment.

As contemporary creative artists often work across and beyond the traditional boundaries of artistic disciplines, the focus will be on bespoke, individual learning.

You will engage in critical inquiry to identify meaningful goals and develop essential knowledge, skills and attitudes for success in your artistic journey.

Throughout the programme, you will have the opportunity to build a professional network and receive support to critically engage with your practice in order to transform your creative identity.

It will also help you enhance your skills for freelance work, employment with creative agencies or further academic study, while expanding your professional network.

This is a flexible programme, where you’ll work alongside RCS lecturers and industry experts, as well as our network of national and international partners.

The MA is designed to integrate with your existing arts practice and includes a significant amount of student-led learning. It will be complemented by intensive residencies at the beginning and end of the programme, as well as online delivery, one-to-one support, and peer group learning.

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