Dogstar to tour extensively with Booker & Whitbread Prize nominee Ali Smith’s new comedy.
Dogstar will undertake an extensive tour throughout Scotland during May & June 2006 with Ali Smith’s new comedy The Seer. Dogstar’s Joint Artistic Director Matthew Zajac will direct. Following four successful music theatre productions written by Dogstar’s founder and Joint Artistic Director Hamish MacDonald, The Seer represents a departure for the company into new territory, expanding its scope to embrace the work of some of Northern Scotland’s finest writers. The Seer will be the first of these productions, a truly original work and the first professionally-produced full-length play by Ali Smith.
The Play
Neil and Iona are a comfortable couple in their early thirties. They both have well-paid professional jobs in the new Highland metropolis; they dress both themselves and their home immaculately. Their lives are ordered to the point of sterility. They are smug, self-centred and bored with each other. Into their lives bursts Kirsty, Iona’s anarchic sister, who manages to turns the whole evening into a startling topsy turvy treat. Only a bit to do with Hielan’ second sight, The Seer is a contemporary comedy of manners which asks the audience to consider just what it is they are seeing; a lively, funny, satirical roller coaster about domestic perfection, free spirits and the new Scotland.
Ali Smith
A native of Inverness, Ali Smith is an internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer. She was included in this year’s Booker Prize shortlist for her new novel The Accidental. This is her second nomination for Britain’s foremost literary prize, her first being in 2001 for Hotel World, which also won a nomination for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is also the recipient of the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award and is currently on the shortlist for the Whitbread Prize.
PRESS NIGHT May 3rd 2006
The Seer will tour throughout Scotland from the first week in May, taking in numerous villages, islands, towns and cities including:
Touring schedule
Catch Ali Smith's comedy THE SEER in May & June.
THE SEER Tour Dates
May 3rd & 4th Spectrum Centre, Inverness
May 5th Strathpeffer Pavilion, Easter Ross
May 6th Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye
May 10th Lochinver Village Hall, Sutherland
May 11th Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness
May 12th Rosehall Village Hall, by Lairg, Sutherland
May 16th Plockton Village Hall, Wester Ross
May17th MacPhail Centre, Ullapool, Wster Ross
May 18th An Lanntair, Stornoway, Western Isles
May 20th Castlebay Community School, Barra, Western Isles
May 23rd Paisley Arts Centre, West Renfrewshire
May 25th Lemon Tree Arts Centre, Aberdeen
May 26th Deeside Theatre, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
May 27th MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling
May 31st Dairy High School, Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival
June 2nd & 3rd Garrison Theatre, Lerwick, Shetland
June 7th Byre Theatre, St Andrews
June 8th Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline
June 9th Lewis Grassic Gibbon Cetre, Arbuthnott, Aberdeenshire
June 10th Bettridge Centre, Newtonhill, Aberdeenshire
June 14th Howden Park Centre, Livingston, West Lothian
June 15th Badenoch Centre, Kingussie
June 16th & 17th Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
More dates and box office details to follow.
Enjoy a trip round our website www.dogstartheatre.co.uk. View it as an extension of the live theatre experience. Join our Mailing list by sending us an e-amil at dogstar@blueyonder.co.uk or by registering in our Members area. In future, the members' area will include a theatre forum and you'll be able to download music and view video clips.
Professional theatre from the Scottish Highlands was very rare until fairly recently. There is now a burgeoning group of small companies. Dogstar is at the forefront of this movement. Join us and be part of this exciting development in Scottish Theatre!
Our future plans include new work by Henry Adam, Hamish MacDonald and Matthew Zajac. For any other enquiries on Dogstar Theatre contact either Hamish MacDonald or Matthew Zajac on e-mail: sugarburn@tiscali.co.uk
