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Summary Version Theatre Selection Menu January – August 2019
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Summary Version
Theatre Selection Menu
January – August 2019
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Contents Puppet Animation Festival 2019 ........................................................... 3
Unbelievable featuring Smith & Burns ................................................. 3
The Little Maid Who Danced To Every Mood ....................................... 4
Black Is The Color Of My Voice ............................................................. 4
Pondlife ................................................................................................. 5
Dad's Army Radio Show ........................................................................ 5
Fallen Fruit ............................................................................................ 6
Mairi Campbell: Auld Lang Syne ........................................................... 6
A Warning to the Curios ........................................................................ 7
Confusion of Tongues ........................................................................... 7
Essential Truths & (Scottish) Guilty Pleasures ...................................... 8
Can You Catch the Killer ........................................................................ 8
W-hat About? ........................................................................................ 9
The Bite-Size Double Bill ....................................................................... 9
“Did You Used to be R.D. Laing?” ...................................................... 10
The Sorries .......................................................................................... 10
The Unwanted ..................................................................................... 11
Memories of an Indian Childhood ...................................................... 11
Though This Be Madness .................................................................... 12
The Disasters of Johnny Armstrong and other Daft Tales .................. 12
Dracula....The Travesty ....................................................................... 13
The Government Inspector!................................................................ 13
The Lost Things ................................................................................... 17
The Myth of the Singular Moment ..................................................... 14
My Name is Irrelevant ......................................................................... 14
Peril at Sea .......................................................................................... 15
Bonnie Fechters - Songs & Stories Of Hope & Resistance .................. 15
WIRED ................................................................................................. 16
Get A Life! ........................................................................................... 16
Heroes ................................................................................................. 17
The Tailor of Inverness ........................................................................ 18
Doorways in Drumorty ........................................................................ 18
A Hundred Different Words for Love .................................................. 19
Men With Coconuts ............................................................................ 19
Unspotted Snow by Peter Arnott........................................................ 20
The Dark Carnival: Unplugged ............................................................ 20
Little Top ............................................................................................. 21
ORPHEUS ............................................................................................. 21
Oysters ................................................................................................ 22
Looping: Scotland Overdub ................................................................. 22
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Puppet Animation Festival 2019
Every year we work in collaboration with Puppet Animation Scotland to bring you high quality puppet shows for younger audiences. Unfortunately, due to financial constraints we cannot commit to programming every show in the PAF Menu so below we have listed the productions that we are able to support via our theatre subsidy scheme. Please see the Puppet Animation Festival 2019 Menu for information on all performances. If you would like to book a show which is not on the list please contact Emyr ([email protected]) and we may be able to assist with some of the costs.
Puppet Animation Festival Menu 2019 Page
3 Little Pig Tails 1
Cardboard Carnival 4
Dagba’s Forest Tales 5
Eaten 7
Giraffe * 8
Let’s Go 9
Little Red 10
Lost Bear 11
Oska’r Amazing Adventure 13
Pied Piper 16
The Lighthouse Keepers Tale 18
The Whirlybird 19
Tricky – a fairy story 21
Check technical requirements *
Unbelievable featuring Smith & Burns 12+ Fifth Dimension Magic
W http://www.fifthdimensi
on.biz V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UIlJ-aoOK0U
Fifth Dimension presents an evening of magic, mystery and tall tales. Combining humour, sleight of hand, curly wurlys, mind reading, illusion and lots of audience participation they bring their unique form of madness to the stage with style, sophistication and the occasional hiccup. Come see the comedy magic duo that have topped
the bill in Las Vegas and have performed to celebrities, VIPs and invited guests in sold out performances at the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood LA. “If you want to be entertained and astonished you must go to one of Fifth Dimension’s shows!” Uri Geller "Fifth Dimension will blow your mind!" Press & Journal
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Aberdeen based so dates can be very flexible between January and August 2019
Fee £750 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
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The Little Maid Who Danced To Every
Mood 5+
Northumberland Theatre Company Children’s Theatre
Website http://www.northumberlandtheatre.co.uk
‘The Little Maid Who Danced To Every Mood’ - adapted from Helena Nyblom's
Scandinavian children's adventure by new writer Laura Jayne Ayres who has toured as an actor in several shows with NTC. Through dance, song and exciting
physical theatre, we follow our heroine on her journey to find her true place in the world. Meeting grouchy farmers, a flock of flamenco dancing pigeons and finally a handsome prince - but is the life of a princess something our little maid truly wants? And will she still be allowed to dance? Suitable for family audiences of all ages, this show will tour December 2018 and January 2019.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Thursday 10 January 2019
Friday 11 January 2019
Saturday 12 January 2019
Fee £750.00 Support YES Group B Outreach No Fee NA
Black Is The Color Of My Voice 12+ Seabright Productions Theatre / Music
W http://www.seabrights.co
m V
https://youtu.be/gH9o_Kt3NM
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Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Black Is The Color Of My Voice follows a successful jazz singer and civil rights activist seeking redemption after the untimely death of her father. She reflects on the journey that took her from a young piano prodigy destined for a life in the service of the church, to a renowned jazz vocalist at the forefront of the Civil Rights
Movement. Apphia Campbell is a singer, playwright and actress from Florida, who has appeared in various productions in her home country as well as in Shanghai and the UK. The show is available as a double bill with Soul Sessions, Apphia’s cabaret show paying tribute to Nina Simone’s phenomenal career.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
Fee £850.00 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
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Pondlife P5-7 / 9+ years Catherine Wheels Children’s Theatre
Website http://www.catherinewheels.co.uk
Moving school is never easy. When class bully Sharon takes an instant dislike to Martin it feels like he has an especially tough ride ahead of him. That is until he befriends Simon McGurk and his fortunes seem to change. The fickle world of playground politics soon puts pressure on their friendship, however, and Martin finds himself making a
choice that will impact them both for the rest of their school days. Following successes in Australia and New York, Catherine Wheels restage this energetic piece of storytelling for Scottish schools. A passionate one-man show that vividly illustrates the high stakes of classroom power play, Pondlife movingly explores the lasting legacy of childhood friendships. Part of Theatre in Schools Scotland, a National Theatre of Scotland and Imaginate project.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
January 2019 February 2019 March 2019
Fee £600 Support YES Group B Outreach No Fee NA
Dad's Army Radio Show 3+ Seabright Productions Theatre
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http://www.seabrights.
com
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https://youtu.be/ijXbL1u
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Two actors play 25
characters in this
brilliant staging of
classic radio scripts
based on favourite
episodes from the
original TV series.
Celebrating 50 years of
Perry and Croft’s
quintessential sitcom,
which won the ‘Best One-Liner’ accolade in a poll of comedians
conducted earlier this year by Gold, with the immortal words “Don’t
tell him, Pike”.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
Fee £1000 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
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Fallen Fruit 16+ Two Destination Language Theatre
W http://www.twodestinationlangua
ge.com V
https://vimeo.com/2662
85132
“Back there, back then, I had it all!” In 1989, as the Berlin Wall splits open, a young girl looks forward to life beyond communism, a couple unravels, and 80s TV permeates everything. A story of love, breaking free and Europe, from Total
Theatre Award winners Two Destination Language. In 2019, Britain leaves the EU while across Europe people celebrate the 30th anniversary of the end of the Cold War. Fallen Fruit foregrounds a unique migrant voice born in communist Bulgaria. “A gem of a small-scale show, coming from a truthful place and putting into sharp perspective the issues of borders. The design is beautiful and the performance by Katherina Radeva is exceptional.” -Sarah Brigham, Derby Theatre
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
Fee £900 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £300
Mairi Campbell: Auld Lang Syne 8+ Greengold Projects & Authentic Artist Collective
Storytelling / Live Music
W http://www.mairicamp
bell.scot V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Y9AgPPLeu8I
Mairi Campbell's five
Star follow up show to
acclaimed Pulse.
Mairi Campbell: Auld
Lang Syne tells stories
of her adventures
with Scotland’s most
famous song - singing
for US President Bill Clinton, a starring role in Sex and the City and a
reinterpretation of the Robert Burns classic that changed her life.
Delivered with trademark wit, gentle charm and unparalleled musical
ability, the sequel to 5 star Pulse, is a funny and heartfelt show that
resonates with universal truths.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
January 2019 February 2019 March 2019
Fee £750.00 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
Get-in 04:00 Running Time 01:05 Get-out 01:00
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A Warning to the Curios 12+
Nunkie Theatre Company Storytelling
W http://www.nunkie.co.uk/
theatre-shows V
https://www.youtube.com/user/
nunkie100
A thrilling, candlelit, one-man retelling of two of the eeriest and most entertaining tales by M R James, the Master of the English Ghost Story. "Storytelling at its best" The Stage
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
January 2019 February 2019
Fee £500.00 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
Confusion of Tongues 7+ Modo - Circus with Purpose Circus/street theatre
W http://www.modo.
org.uk V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu
KF66mChQ4
A comic circus kerfuffle revelling in the chaos and the shenanigans that follow as a group of oddballs gather under a common flag to create a new world. As they build their tower of civilisation it seems that nothing they plan is impossible to them. But frictions emerge, the tower is destroyed, their languages are confounded and the people scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. But how to leave without abandoning everything precious. “A little miracle of a show, funny, nostalgic,
smart, touching, even poetic and magical at times.” Confusion of Tongues is a light hearted response to Brexit created by young people. Without words, but with plenty of circus, the show lasts c.45 minutes and can be performed inside or out. “The cast create symbols through brilliant juggling and clowning in a melancholic reflection about Europe's future.”
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
January 2019 February 2019 March 2019 April 2019
Fee £500 Support YES Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
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Essential Truths & (Scottish)
Guilty Pleasures 8+
apatienceart projects Traditional storytelling
with live music
W http://www.alexpatience.co.u
k V
https://vimeo.com/3090270
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Essential Truths & (Scottish) Guilty Pleasures, is a storytelling performance with live music. A woman, not old but no longer young, falls for a good man from another country that her father doesn't want for her - what measures will she go to get what she wants and how far will he go to stop her. A young boy, missing his father who is away fighting, challenges himself to learn from the elderly of his community.. The stories told will draw you into the lives and experiences of others -
strong women, loving men and the guilty pleasure all Scots understand; the love of the old school 'magic', told with musical accompaniment. Traditional stories with heart, for young and old.
Explicit Content
See Complete Version
Touring Dates
January 2019 February 2019
March 2019 April 2019
May 2019 June 2019
July 2019 August 2019
Fee £600 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £150
Can You Catch the Killer 10+ Can You Catch the Killer Murder Mystery
Website http://canyoucatchthekiller.com
YOU listen to the evidence, YOU interrogate the suspects, YOU solve the mystery. Can YOU catch the Killer? High quality Murder Mystery events from Scotland's best loved and most prolific Murder Mystery company. We can perform our shows in ANY venue - whether around a meal, a bar, or neither. With a high focus on engaging the audience and making a proper night out to remember, and with over 20 different themes to chose from on this tour - if you want a Murder Mystery night in your town or village... You want CAN YOU CATCH THE KILLER.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
Fee £595 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
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W-hat About? 4+ Fuora Dance Company Physical Theatre / Dance
W http://www.fuoradance
.com V
https://vimeo.com/251644780/cfbf
142463
When hatmaker Robert is reunited with his Italian granddaughters, cultures collide, communications are crossed and fears are fought. W-hat About? Is a celebration of family and a touching tale of loss and love. Fuora Dance Project’s, W-hat About? fuses theatre and movement to capture the joy
in reuniting and the magic that is in a memory. Alongside the tour, Fuora Dance Project are holding creative workshops for children and their families around Scotland. See www.fuoradance.com for details
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
Fee £850 Support YES Group B Outreach Yes Fee £120
The Bite-Size Double Bill TBC 10+ Mull Theatre Theatre
Website http://www.comar.co.uk
An attractive and engaging evening of theatre in two parts. First the informal bit - BITE-SIZE ... readings, encounters, questions & answers, feedback, chat and a chance for the audience to enjoy
the fun bit of the creative process. Second part …. THE ELECTRIFYING MISTER JOHNSTON
A story of power - and the struggle for it... A new play about one of Scotland’s great unsung heroes of the 20th Century, radical thinker, land reformer, scourge of the establishment and the man who brought “light to the glens”, Tom Johnston.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Monday 11 February 2019 Tuesday 12 February 2019 Wednesday 13 February 2019 Thursday 14 February 2019 Friday 15 February 2019
Monday 18 February 2019 Tuesday 19 February 2019 Wednesday 20 February 2019 Thursday 21 February 2019
Fee £1000 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
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“Did You Used to be R.D. Laing?” 15+ Mike Maran Productions Theatre
W http://www.mikemar
an.com V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
m6cjLLjtkRk
‘Did You Used to be R.D.Laing? is a fully staged dramatic storytelling work about the eminent Scottish psychiatrist, R.D.Laing. With a jazz score based on the music of Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, and Chopin arranged by David Milligan. The renowned Scottish performer, Mike Maran, celebrates the life and work of a doctor who fought for the human rights and civil liberties of people who were in distress
More widely known in the sixties than Timothy Leary, R.D.Laing denounced normality for being mad, opened safe houses where schizophrenics could voyage safely through their madness, and then retreated to India. Winner of a Herald Angel at The Edinburgh Fringe for its outstanding contribution to the Edinburgh Festival.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Saturday 16 February Sunday 17 February Monday 18 February
Tuesday 19 February Wednesday 20 February Thursday 21 February
Friday 22 February Saturday 23 February
Fee £800 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
The Sorries 5+ The Sorries Music
W https://www.thesorri
es.co.uk V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
qWhaWsKbPs
Inspired by a love of The Corries, Douglas Kay and Martin Philip sing, play and banter their way through an entertaining hour of traditional Scottish and comic songs. 'Deliciously infectious... riotous fun' ***** (ThreeWeeks). 'Authentic, lively and hugely, hugely enjoyable' ***** (BroadwayBaby.com). 'A must for lovers of Scots songs' **** (EdinburghSpotlight.com). 'Genuinely funny' (FringeReport.com).
'Their... revision of Johhny Lad is entertainingly true to a noble, public figure swatting tradition' (Rob Adams, Herald).
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
February 2019 March 2019 May 2019 June 2019
Fee £600 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £150
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The Unwanted 16+ Shaper/Caper Dance Comedy
Website https://www.shapercaper.com
The Unwanted is a comedy dance theatre show, ideal for bars, studios and most non-theatre spaces. Narrator Thomas - a kind of Michael Aspel for an all-dancing ‘This-Is-(Almost)Your-Life’ – starts by sharing his letters of rejection. Miranda, armed with a multitude of cheap props, will bring the tale to life physically (and might need a few pals from the audience to help her, especially for the ‘big’ numbers).
Destruction and chaos ensue as things fall apart…failing props and costumes are held together with duct tape, while the pair do everything they can just keep going on with life and the show.
Says choreographer/director/narrator Thomas Small: “Over the past 15 years, there has been one constant in my life…and that constant is the steady, stifling stream of rejection. Dates broken, relationships soured, jobs ended and more importantly - dance pieces that never got made!
With comedy songs specially written by Mark Franks of The Overtones, and with lots of audience dancing and karaoke, this comedy dance theatre show is for all kinds of spaces, and with minimal tech.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional) Sexual (references)
Touring Dates
February 2019
Fee £750 Support YES Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
Memories of an Indian
Childhood 10+
Settle Stories Storytelling / Theatre
/ Memoir
W https://www.settlestori
es.org.uk V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=bZ8dIc18xlk
Be transported to Bombay... dusty, crowded and vibrant… Welcome to Sita’s world of large families, stubborn hairdos and romantic train journeys. Slowly the light-hearted stories about friendships and games give way to darker more painful memories. Her father’s gruelling exodus at the onset of
World War II and later the Indian Emergency, precipitating the need to leave India and come to Britain. Atmospheric, intimate, funny and moving, Memories of an Indian Childhood is an extraordinary personal narrative mixed with traditional tales and told by an accomplished storyteller who blends the myths and folktales that have shaped human lives over thousands of years with the current stories that matter. An optional post show Q&A is offered - up to 30 mins (no charge)
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
February 2019 March 2019 April 2019 May 2019 June 2019
Fee £425 Support YES Group A Outreach Yes Fee £TBC
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Though This Be
Madness
14+ with a daytime performance open to
parents and carers with babe-in-arms
Ms Theatre / Storytelling
W http://www.skyeloneragan.com/Skye_Loneragan_Artist/Skye
_Loneragan_artist.html V
https://vimeo.com/27
9248282
How can we nurture our collective sanity? Though This Be Madness is a one-woman show and intimate theatre piece by award-winning writer/performer Skye Loneragan. Bouncing on a pilates ball in the
Land of Lounge Room, a recovering mature-age mum is desperate to soothe her baby, but determined to tell you a tale about her own family and the many sisters within it from her sleep deprived state. Unable to reach her sister Ophelia, who wrestles sometimes with a cataract on what Shakespeare calls the mind’s eye, she stitches together a pillow-book of tales told through poetry and performance.Though This Be Madness weaves a warm and quirky urgency with stories that explore the experience of loved ones wrestling pyschosis and personality disorder, told through the fractured form of a parent's focus, using poetry set to musical composition, monologue and physical theatre.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
Fee £820 Support YES Group A Outreach Yes Fee £175
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The Disasters of Johnny Armstrong and
other Daft Tales 13+
Northumberland Theatre Company Theatre
Website http://www.northumberlandtheatre.co.uk
‘The Disasters of Johnny Armstrong’: one of Wilson’s fantastic Tales of the Borders is humorous, engaging storytelling theatre at its best, suitable for 13+ to enjoy and celebrate the culture, tradition and history of the Borders region.
Full of comedy and high drama as well as strong storytelling this production will be tour in Spring/Summer 2019. The Disasters of Johnny Armstrong and other Daft Tales’ which toured to village hall and other community venues in Northumberland in spring 2018 ‘humorous, engaging storytelling theatre at its best’
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
February 2019 March 2019 April 2019 May 2019 June 2019
Fee £834 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee No
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Dracula....The Travesty 13+ Northumberland Theatre Company Theatre
Website http://www.northumberlandtheatre.co.uk
Dracula..... The Travesty’: Devised and created by NTC actor and writer, Stewart Howson, from the novel by Bram Stoker. Light, funny and daft but with strong storytelling and some genuinely scary moments
this is Gothic storytelling at its
best: imaginative, atmospheric and physically exciting. Appealing to family audiences it features all the anticipated elements of the story: wolves, bats and the Brides of Dracula with plenty of audience participation, humour and music. “A brilliant evening, we came and my 13 year old son had done gothic lit last term at school. He LOVED it! Thank you so much.” “The play was fabulous and mesmerising- not what some had expected as it told; nay, disembowelled Bram Stoker’s story in a way that sent shivers down the spine and water from the bladder (for some of a weaker disposition) as we alternatively laughed and covered our faces in horror rapidly in succession. I cannot commend the Northumberland Theatre Company highly enough for bringing us yet again such an entertaining experience.” Whitburn Village Hall
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
February 2019 March 2019 April 2019 May 2019 June 2019
Fee £834 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
The Government Inspector! 11+ Shifting Sands Theatre Theatre
W http://www.shiftingsandst
heatre.co.uk V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s
GJvpvgtyqMbelow
Hilarious, Accessible Comic Theatre The Mayor of a small town is in a cold sweat. News has reached him of an imminent investigation by a high-ranking government official who is travelling incognito – THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR!
The town’s officials are thrown into a panicked frenzy – all are thoroughly corrupt!. They waste no time to cover up
the misuse of public money- the school that was never built, the bribes, fiddled expenses, abuses of office … the corruption that has been going on for years! Matters spiral hysterically out of control when they believe that a stranger in the town is the real Government Inspector.
The Government Inspector written in 1835 by Gogol is an hilarious satire about corruption in a world where, increasingly desperate to keep the supposed Government Inspector happy, everyone loses their moral compass
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Wednesday 20 March Thursday 21 March
Friday 22 March Saturday 23 March Wednesday 15 May
Thursday 16 May Friday 17 May Saturday 18 May
Other dates also available
Fee £700 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
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The Myth of the Singular Moment 12+
Jim Harbourne Theatre / Live
Music
Website https://jimharbourne.wordpress.com
‘With every choice we create a new universe. I make it, I don’t make it, I make it, I don’t.’ Two musician-performers take us on a fantastical journey that links four characters in interconnecting tales across the multiverse, in a story that explores an existential conundrum of belief. Somewhere out there, has another version of you followed a better path?
Profound and personal, The Myth of the Singular Moment combines the poignancy of contemporary folk and stomp of electronica to create an enthralling live sound track. Your future is in an envelope; would you open it?
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
March 2019 April 2019
Fee £450 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
My Name is Irrelevant Universal 12+ Matthew Leonard Spoken Word, Live Music
Website http://www.tortoiseinanutshell.com
Get caught in the web of another mind. Forget who you are, become someone else. In a world created by your imagination it can be difficult to work out what is fiction and what is reality.
My Name is Irrelevant is a subtle and moving piece of new writing, blending spoken word with a live, original soundtrack. A poignant and intimate production, My Name is Irrelevant layers humour and pathos in the exploration of an intensely personal story of loneliness and isolation. Follow Matthew's story as he discusses all of the people he has ever met with the assistance of a 35mm slide projector and VHS player. A self-contained, lo-fi design creates a close and personal setting, with a rich and evocative sound score provided by Composer/Musician Jim Harbourne. My Name is Irrelevant was originally created from a three minute spoken word piece on the theme of isolation in a busy world, before premiering at 2017's Edinburgh Festival Fringe to audience and critical acclaim. Written and performed by Matthew Hall, with music composed and played by Jim Harbourne, My Name is Irrelevant is an evocative and personal piece that aims to inspire and incite in equal measure.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
March 2019 April 2019
Fee £450 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
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Peril at Sea 12+ Up The Road Theatre Theatre
W
http://www.uptheroadth
eatre.co.uk
V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq
hXjSRUr0k&t=1s
A local boat has gone out in a storm to assist another vessel. As night wears on and the storm rages, those left behind start to share stories and memories, myths and legends of shipwrecks, smuggling and survival. Tempers will flare and solace will be sought as we explore the highs and lows of a life lived by the sea. The play
will also feature acoustic music and song.
Peril at Sea is a play for those who are intrigued by the call of the sea and are awed by the power of nature. Up The Road are based on the Kent coast and we're creating this production to further explore our relationship with the sea, as individuals, communities and as an island nation. We're gathering research from across the country to inspire the creation of our production - seeking common themes, unique characters and breath-taking events that have occured in our seafaring past.
“It worked on so many levels... Up the Road provide good quality and great value”
“A rewarding experience”
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Tuesday 19 March Wednesday 20 March Thursday 21 March
Fee £800 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
Bonnie Fechters - Songs &
Stories Of Hope & Resistance 14+
Morna Burdon Theatre includes live
music, songs & Stories
Website http://www.bonniefechtersproductions.com
With Bonnie Fechters, performer Morna Burdon takes the audience on a journey of celebration and inspiration as she weaves a tapestry of songs and stories shedding light on remarkable women whose quiet courage and remarkable achievements have often remained hidden and unsung.
Says Burdon, who also devised and directed, “The show tells the stories of these women whose courage, love, inventiveness and human spirit have stood up to injustice and oppression over continents & centuries. I particularly love when audience members tell me of people in their families or communities – or just that they know of – whose stories have also changed peoples’ lives. People are
brave, and this show celebrates that”
"Deeply moving ..... mellow singing…….charismatic" (BroadwayBaby.com)
"One minute I was laughing, next I was in tears" Producer, Writers and Activists Programme, Edinburgh International Book Fringe
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Friday 15 March Saturday 16 March Friday 22 March
Saturday 23 March Friday 29 March
Saturday 30 March Other dates also available.
Fee £350 Support No Ticket Band A Outreach No Fee NA
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WIRED 14+ Lesley Wilson Theatre
Website http://wiredtheplay.simplesite.com
WIRED is the story of a young woman soldier’s journey through post-traumatic stress. Told through the lives of three woman; Joanna, the young soldier, her mother and an older soldier who represents the many voices of the military. It is a story about the people behind the uniform. Following training, Joanna is deployed to Afghanistan and believes she is prepared
for what lies ahead. What she is not prepared for is a visit from her past. As the realities of war close in around her, Joanna struggles to make sense of the voices, memories and flashbacks that wage war inside her head. 'A powerful experience...its a play that leaves you in a state of hopeful
concern, shaken, outraged and yet still somehow humbled' ★★★★★ British Theatre Guide ‘A compelling account of PTSD where the character shares centre stage with the issue, rather than simply being the vehicle through which it’s
represented.’ ★★★★★ TheReviewsHub
Explicit Content
WIRED does not shy away from the realities of war and deals with mental health. Minimal swearing
Touring Dates
March 2019 April 2019
Fee £900 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
Get A Life! 16+ Splinters Productions Theatre / Comedy / Sketches
Website http://www.splintersproductions.co.uk
A not altogether crazy look at a crazy world ! A series of weird and wonderful sketches - a kaleidoscope of theatre, social satire, politics and parody with performers John Shedden and Finlay McLean.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
April 2019 May 2019
Fee £700.00 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
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Heroes 7+ All Or Nothing Dance / Contemporary / Circus / Aerial Dance
W https://www.aerialdance.c
o.uk V
https://vimeo.com/allornothin
gadt
Heroes is a new show from All or Nothing and Room 2 Manoeuvre.
It takes a look at who our idols are. The cult of celebrity and the fall from grace, the hidden heroes, superheroes and who do we really, actually look up to?
A light-hearted family show, Heroes mixes aerial skills with dance theatre and contemporary circus. Asking universal
questions with humour, straight talking and lots of moving, we follow the journey of the two performers as they navigate their way through the world of idolising and being idolised.
Building on the success of their last piece, Sprawl, Tony Mills of Room 2 Manoeuvre and Jennifer Paterson of All or Nothing form a creative partnership again, adding performer Beverley Grant into the mix.
The work is played around a freestanding aerial rig and does not need overhead rigging. We need a height of 4.8m for the rig, but that can fit between roof trusses - please discuss with us if you are not sure if it will fit your venue.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
April 2019
Fee £850 Support YES Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
The Lost Things 8+ Tortoise in a Nutshell Theatre / Puppet
Website http://www.tortoiseinanutshell.com
A boy falls and finds himself in a dark and terrifying new world. It’s a world of lost things: car keys, wedding rings, dads, and a mysterious girl who is building an amazing machine. Performed in a unique dome structure, The Lost Things is
about losing things and finding things you didn’t even know you were looking for. This is a dark fairytale set in a fantastical world, where nothing is quite as it seems. Created by award winning theatre company, Tortoise in a Nutshell (Fisk, Feral) and award winning writer, Oliver Emanuel (Flight, Dragon, Titus)
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
April 2019
Fee £550 Support YES Group B Outreach Yes Fee £0
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The Tailor of Inverness 7+ Dogstar Theatre Company Theatre
W http://www.dogstarthe
atre.co.uk V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=FkT1Ss4nOW8
Matthew Zajac’s multi-award-winning The Tailor of Inverness is a story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine) came to be a tailor in Inverness.
His life spanned most of the 20th century. His story is not straightforward.
He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939 and forced to work east of the Urals, then freed in an amnesty after the German
invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. He then joined the thousands of Poles who travelled to Tehran, then Egypt, to be integrated into the British Army, fighting in North Africa and Italy. He was then resettled in Britain in 1948, joining his brother in Glasgow. This is the story he told.
Winner Best Actor, Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) 2009 Winner Scotsman Fringe First Award 2008 Winner Best Solo Performer The Stage Edinburgh Fringe Awards 2008 Winner of the inaugural Holden Street Theatres Award (Adelaide) 2008 Nominated for Best Production & Best Performance 2009 Adelaide Fringe
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Tuesday 16 April Wednesday 17 April
Thursday 18 April Friday 19 April
Saturday 20 April
Fee £900 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
Doorways in Drumorty 12+ HAME productions Theatre
Website https://www.facebook.com/Hamepages-
174335696379126
A moving and popular theatrical performance based on a book of short stories by Lorna Moon. A highly amusing and poignant tale that economically captures, fillets and skewers small town life in rural Scotland in the 1920s, an era when twitching curtains and gossip was a perfectly acceptable way of life to many people in the town. Originally presented in a sell-out tour in 2011 produced by Mike Gibb, Doorways in Drumorty is witty and vivid production. This project will invest further in set, costume and technical design to showcase the lively
script and talents of the cast. As well as providing an excellent evening's entertainment, the production also brings the writing of Lorna Moon to new audiences. Seven stories are woven together, with three cast playing a dozen members of a close knit community.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Monday 15 April Tuesday 16 April Wednesday 17 April 18 April Aboyne Friday 19 April
20 April Laurencekirk Sunday 12 April Monday 22 April Tuesday 23 April Wednesday 24 April
Thursday 25 April 26 April New Deer 27 April Alvah Sunday 28 April
Fee £800.00 Support YES Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
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A Hundred Different Words for Love 13+
Tangram Theatre Theatre
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o.uk V
https://youtu.be/wya1XsAC
_v0
Three years ago, James met the love of his life. A year ago, they broke up. This is James’s story of falling in love and landing broken-hearted. It’s also about him being Best Man of Honour at Sarah and Emma’s wedding. And it’s the story of a quest: to find the right words to make sense of love.
A hilarious, heart-lifting story of romance, despair, and above all, friendship – from one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers.
Featuring live music, heart-ache, belly-laughs and lots and lots of words. The follow-up to James Rowland’s award-winning Team Viking, which toured extensively through 2017
Winner - 2017 Vault Festival Best Show
**** 4 STARS ‘Bittersweet... beautifully written’ The Stage
***** 5 STARS ‘A triumph... will find a way to break (and mend) your heart’ Broadway Baby
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
April 2019 May 2019 June 2019
Fee £650 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
Men With Coconuts 14+
Men With Coconuts Improvised Comedy / Theatre /
Music
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conuts.com V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJm
NGoIeXwU&t=236s
One of the UK's leading improv troupes, the award-winning Men With Coconuts! An evening of improvised comedy sketches and songs, culminating in a showstopping finale – an entirely improvised musical. Unplanned, unscripted, and unbelievable! Praise for Men With Coconuts: 'One of the best improv shows I've seen. Skilful and hysterical' (Jo Caulfield).
Winner Spirit of the Fringe Award (Prague Fringe 2016). 'Hilarious... make sure these guys are on your list!' (pftc.cz). 'Absurdly ridiculous and downright hilarious' (TheWeeReview.com). 'Forget everything you thought you knew about improvisation... a must see show!' (EdFringeReview.com).
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional) Sexual (references)
Touring Dates
April 2019 May 2019 June 2019 July 2019
Fee £600 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £45
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Unspotted Snow by Peter Arnott TBC 8+ Mull Theatre Theatre
Website http://www.comar.co.uk
A new play award-winning playwright Peter Arnott, based on the tale of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to discover the North-West Passage and it’s extraordinary 170-year legacy.
A light-hearted musical romp of starvation, scurvy and cannibalism ... with some jolly tunes
Unspotted Snow is a “ripping yarn” - a bold and adventurous tale of tragedy, mishap, folly, arrogance, madness and betrayal, Victorian heroism … and ruthless news management. Come and be enthralled by the ambition and derring-do of the explorers and by their terrifying, grisly fate.
In 1845, Sir John Franklin and 159 men sailed off in search of the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific by way of the North coast of Canada. They vanished…
Now, come along with Mull Theatre to explore and discover the hazy, crazy halftruths, rumours and scandals which besmirched the unspotted snow of the great white north!
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
Saturday 20 April Sunday 21 April
Tuesday 23 April Monday 22 April
Thursday 25 April 2 Wednesday 24 April
Fee £1000 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
The Dark Carnival: Unplugged TBC (PG) Vanishing Point Theatre / Live Music
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ng-point.org V
https://vimeo.com/285497228/3bcd1
18c1c
The Dark Carnival: Unplugged is a delightfully ghoulish and high-spirited new show - an evening of anarchic song and raucous rhyme that tells the story of newcomers to the afterlife who discover that death is not actually the end! Incredulous at their continuity, they form their own necropolitan community where every night is party night.
But something is afoot. A mysterious event has thrown the lives of the dead into uncertainty. When news reaches the cemetery, an underground revolution begins, led by the stoical Mrs Mark and her band of necropolitans.
Performed by A New International front man Biff Smith and one actor, this is a lively, fun show that will make a great night out!
Sponsored by The Famous Grouse: You'll receive a free glass of whisky
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates Tuesday 14th May Wednesday 15th May Thursday 16th May Saturday 18th May Sunday 19th May Monday 20th May Tuesday 21st May
Wednesday 22nd May Thursday 23rd May Friday 24th May 2019 Saturday 25th May Sunday 26th May Monday 27th May
Tuesday 28th May Wednesday 29th May Thursday 30th May Friday 31st May Saturday 1st June Sunday 2nd June
Fee £960.00 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
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Little Top 0-18months Starcatchers Circus
Website http://www.starcatchers.org.uk
Starcatchers are working with Ellie Dubois (Creator of No Show) and Kim Donohoe to create Little Top, a new circus performance for babies aged under 18 months and their parents and carers. Little Top will be a production that blends magical, spectacular moments with intimate engagement to created a magical first circus experience. Little Top will take place inside a circus tent made especially for the show.
As well as creating a magical, cosy space for audience to enjoy the show in, the bespoke circus tent will also allow for an immersive experience for the audience, which considers the specific needs of a very young audience.
Explicit Content
None
Touring Dates
May 2019
Fee £750 Support Yes Group B Outreach No Fee NA
ORPHEUS 10+ The Flanagan Collective & Gobbledigook Theatre
Theatre / Live Music
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https://youtu.be/Rq
M-caDv9io
Dave is sat at the bar, turning 30 next week.
Eurydice is a mythical tree nymph, a naiad. And Bruce Springsteen is on the stereo.
Created by Alexander Wright (The Flanagan Collective) and
Phil Grainger (Gobbledigook), ORPHEUS is a critically acclaimed, internationally award winning show wound together from hair raising spoken word and soaring soul music. It’s a modern retelling of the ancient myth, transporting us through dive bars, back streets and late night karaoke. It’s a show about falling in love, about seismic shifts in your everyday life, and about how far we’d want to go to save those we hold so near and dear. It’s a 5,000 year old story but told for us, here, now. Performed by a storyteller and a musician, the tale is wound together from a guitar and a book, and the audience.
ORPHEUS won Best Theatre (weekly) award at the Adelaide Fringe and the Summerhall Award at VAULT Festival. The show will be touring nationally and internationally across 2019.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
May 2019 June 2019
Fee £600 Support No Group A Outreach Yes Fee £200
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Oysters 14+ Oyster Creatives Theatre
Website https://www.oystercreatives.co.uk Video Vimeo
OYSTERS is a dark comedy shining a powerful spotlight on composer Johannes Brahms - at the party celebrating the first performance of his Violin Concerto. While observing his wit, his genius, his cruelty, his tenderness and his descent into self destructive inebriation, treating friends and associates with all the tenderness of a wrecking ball, we are propelled into a seething cauldron of passionate recriminations and hilarious outcomes. Following his search for
perfection in music, we meet a mesmerizing gallery of characters - the arthritic, embittered and ageing Clara Schumann from his past, mad, jealous unstable virtuoso Joachim, pompous and waspish critic Hanslick and gentle friend and disciple Von Herzogenberg. As the evening progresses and emotions turn on a sixpence the play moves to its extraordinary conclusion fuelled by turbulent emotion and farcical misunderstandings . And laughing through our tears we are continually challenged with the questions: Why Art? What price do we pay for it? Why do we need it? This is a 3 hander with a live musician.
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates
June 2019
Fee £700.00 Support No Group A Outreach No Fee NA
Looping: Scotland Overdub 5+ Scottish Dance Theatre Dance
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https://youtu.be/cu
-rjhqFOBY
Looping: Scotland Overdub is an immersive dance performance experience. Specifically designed for village and community halls, this Brazilian street festival inspired ceilidh features our full company of professional dancers sharing the dance floor (and maybe a whisky!) with you.
Originally created in Bahia, Brazil by collaborating artists Felipe de Assis, Leonardo França and Rita Aquino, Looping: Scotland Overdub is a dance, party, and politics experience with a distinctively Scottish edge. With words by acclaimed writer Kieran Hurley, featuring music from Optimo Music and Mahal Pita, costumes by Alison Brown and Timorous Beasties, lighting by Emma Jones, Looping: Scotland Overdub celebrates the cultures and heritages of Brazil and Scotland in a political dance party.
Capturing the collective spirit of ceilidh dancing and street festivals vibes, this is one show not to be missed!
Explicit Content
Swearing (mild or occasional)
Touring Dates Friday 2 August Saturday 3 August Sunday 4 august 2019 Monday 5 August
Tuesday 6 August Wednesday 7 August Thursday 8 August
Friday 9 August Saturday 10 August Sunday 11 August
Fee £960 Support YES Group A Outreach Yes Fee £0
North East Arts Touring Woodend Barn Burn O’Bennie
Banchory AB31 5QA
01330 826525
www.neatshows.org.uk
