Staging the Sunday Service

Author: 
Douglas Galbraith

The Church Service Society Study Day for 2018 was held in Dunblane Cathedral in November, of which this is a report. The intention was to consider worship from the perspective of drama. Special guest was the Icelandic theatre director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, currently working in Scotland, who adopted a theatre workshop approach to answer the question: What are the theatre director’s hopes and intentions when preparing a play for performance. Discussion after lunch, which was taken in the restaurant of the former Scottish Churches House, was led by a panel consisting of Gilleasbuig Macmillan, Elspeth McKay and David Todd.

Reference: 
Volume 54 2019, p48

Douglas Galbraith served as the Secretary of the Church Service Society from 2010-2019 and after a varied career in church-related pastoral, teaching and administrative work in Scotland and Australia continues in retirement in research and writing in the area of church music and has become involved in the pilgrim routes movement in Scotland.