Tara Arts - The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Set in a not-too distant future, Prospero, an Indian neuro-scientist, is robbed of his inheritance and exiled to a distant island with his daughter. He experiments on two natives, Ariel and Caliban, bending them to his will with promises of freedom from slavery.

Hearing his old adversaries are on a cruise, Prospero engineers a tempest to bring them to his island, wreck his revenge and regain his birthright.

Tara celebrates its 30th year with a modern production of what many consider to be Shakespeare’s final play - full of magic, manipulation and reconciliation.

With live music.

Directed by Jatinder Verma

Designed by Claudia Mayer

“culturally omnivorous, theatrically adventurous” The Guardian

“pioneering on the frontier of a future East-West theatre” The Scotsman

National Tour: September-December 2007

Contact: Jonathan Kennedy (t) 020 8333 4457 (e) jonathan@tara-arts.com

Inverness High School
Friday 19th at 7.30pm / Saturday 20th at 7.30pm / Sunday 21st at 2pm
£15 (concessions £10; early bird £12 and £8)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

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Fish & Game - Otter Pie

Fish & Game, “young, Glasgow iconoclasts”, present Otter Pie – a bold and humorous new show about our search for happiness in an uncertain world, and more specifically, in Scotland.

Otter Pie raises timely questions for people across Scotland and beyond: how do we find a happy medium between individual needs and national well-being? How can we proudly celebrate our rich culture without feeling like tourists to our own past? How do we combat negativity and the perceived ‘crisis in confidence’?

In their search for answers and happiness, Fish & Game channel-hop between visions of Scotland old and new. They attempt to stage the quintessential Scottish novel, Sunset Song, and become pre-occupied with ceilidh dancing, Diana Ross, and an unshakable feeling that the world is about to end. The resulting collisions are often darkly humourous and intensely affecting.

The work of Fish & Game explores our continuing obsessions with the world, our place in it, its natural and unnatural wonders, and its unholy terrors. We aim to charm audiences with enjoyable yet challenging pieces as a very personal response to the world around us.

“Hilariously funny and pungently perceptive” - The Herald

“Terrific theatricality and flair” - The Scotsman

Original performance supported by a National Lottery Grant through the Scottish Arts Council and a Tramway Surge! Commission.

www.fishandgame.org.uk

Craigmonie Centre, Drumnadrochit
Friday 19th at 7.30pm / Saturday 20th at 7.30pm / Sunday 21st at 7.30pm
£8 (concessions £6)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

Otter Pie

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Reeling and Writhing - Only the Men by Tim Nunn

Sanna is the village on the headland where black volcanic rock meets machair, sea and sand. This exposed landscape is the setting for Only the Men, the story of a son who returns to the last working croft upon his father’s death.

The future of the man is tied to the future of the croft he has inherited. He discusses this with Fenella, whilst sitting on a wide white beach. Fenella is an annoying and greedy sheep who died five years ago. To make matters worse, she is not his only companion.

Reeling and Writhing’s Only the Men, is lyrical contemporary Scottish theatre at its best, fusing the music and the geography of the Scottish coast in a tragi-comedic tale. Composer Eddie McGuire creates the soundscape of Sanna and those who dwell therein, with score for alto flute and ocean drum performed live. 
  
Only the Men at the graveside - a modern tale of love, loss and a stuffed sheep, in a landscape of raw emotion and no compromise.

“brilliant, ground-breaking theatre” The Scotsman on Standing Wave

“highly original and affecting work” Sunday Herald on My Dark Sky

Creative Team

Writer Tim Nunn
Director Katherine Morley
Composer Eddie McGuire
Set Designer Brian Hartley
Lighting Designer Grahame Gardner
Graphic Designers O Street

Suitable for all ages

Spectrum Centre 1
Thursday 18th at 8.30pm / Friday 19th at 8pm / Saturday 20th at 8.30pm
£8 (concessions £6)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

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Birds of Paradise presents Beneath You - Spider Girls are Everywhere!
A Tron co-production

“There’s a searchlight in the sky in my eyes but I’m climbing I’m climbing and I can see you you’re with me and the world is tumbling down. We’re tearing the world away. I see it. It’s not like she said. It’s not worse, you know, it’s better than worse. It’s beautiful and so are we.”

A spate of unsolved burglaries plagues the inhabitants of luxury city apartments. A detective seeks retribution for the victims and for himself. To catch them he’ll have to stop looking and start seeing. The perpetrators aren’t hardened career criminals. They’re just girls.

Inspired by real life events, this thrilling production reveals dangerous worlds where loyalties, desires and nerve are tested to the limit.

Just because they’re hiding, it doesn’t mean they can’t be seen. Look up. The spider girls are everywhere.

“Birds of Paradise are a company who know how to use entertainment to maximum effect”   Edinburgh Evening News

Written By Kathy McKean
Director–Morven Gregor   Designer-Claire Halleran 
Dramturg -Nicola McCartney   Choreographer – Matt Foster

www.birdsofparadisetheatre.co.uk

Spectrum Centre 1
Sunday 21st at 7.30pm / Monday 22nd at 7.30pm
£8 (concessions £6)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

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Volcano Theatre Company - A Few Little Drops

We all know that water is important, but Volcano Theatre Company's 2007 performance A FEW LITTLE DROPS will get you thinking and talking about the world's most precious substance in new and exciting ways. Because water is no ordinary substance, this is no ordinary theatre show. We invite you to step inside a giant inflatable wave, explore a flood-wrecked house, and cross a strange watery landscape...
  
This unique, mind-bending and environmentally topical show will explore the strange properties of water, its awesome power, its fundamental role in maintaining life, its fragile purity and its extraordinary beauty. Our purpose is to inspire you with a sense of the preciousness of water - what it means to waste it, pollute it or desecrate it and why people across the world might worship it, cherish it, steal it or fight over it.

A Few Little Drops is the most ambitious production to date from Swansea-based Volcano Theatre Company. We are an international touring company of 20 years' standing that has produced 25 professional shows and toured to 38 countries from Argentina to Azerbaijan. Our style is bold, exuberant and contemporary, and our mission is to make fearless and inspiring theatre for intelligent, imaginative people of all kinds in Wales, the UK and beyond.
 

Volcano Theatre Company | Swansea Institute | Townhill Rd | Swansea SA2 0UT
T 01792 281280 | E volcano.tc@virgin.net | Contact: Katie Keeler www.volcanotheatre.co.uk

www.afewlittledrops.com

Bught Park
Saturday 20th at 2pm, 3.30pm and 5pm / Sunday 21st at 2pm and 3.30pm / Monday 22nd at 2pm, 3.30pm and 5pm
Adults £10; children £5 (Tickets must be booked in advance)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

A few little drops

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Theatre Hebrides - The Callanish Stoned by Kevin MacNeil

The Callanish Stoned le Kevin MacNèill

Tha Teatar Innse Gall ag ath-thaisbeanadh The Callanish Stoned a chaidh air chuairt shoirbheachail ann an Alba às leth Dràma na h-Alba ann an 2006.

Is e dealbh-chluich, luath, inntinneach, èibhinn, dà-chànanach a tha ann an The Callanish Stoned, stèidhichte air na teanntachdan ‘s na tachartasan a bha ann aig Teis-mheadhan an t-Samhraidh aig Tursachan Chalanais ann an Leòdhas. Tha an dealbh-chluich stèidhichte air trì caraidean agus an tuigse a tha iad a’ faighinn mu bheatha agus mu chàch a chèile an uair a tha iad a’ coinneachadh ri daoine annasach a bhuineas don àite a tha a tha a’ cur bacadh air an turas aca a Chalanais.  Tha sgeulachd gaoil dhòrainneach mu bheatha a’ bhàird òg Gàidhlig, Uilleam Ros (1790) air fhighe a-steach dhan sgeulachd seo. 

Air a’ chruthachadh mar fhiolm bho na h-Eileanan Siar, tha an dealbh-chluich a’ dèiligeadh ri cùisean co-cheangailte ri fulangas, buntanas, traidiseanan ag atharrachadh, buaidh agus dearbh-aithne. Is e dòigh mhath a tha ann aithne a thoirt do luchd-amhairc òg air teatar beò agus air a’ Ghàidhlig le bhith toirt an dealbh-chluich air turas taobh a-muigh a’ choimhearsnachd a bhrosnaich e.  Gorgina Coburn Northings Arts Journal

Tha a h-uile càil ann – an ìre as àirde de na tha comasach agus neo-chomasach – co-thuiteamas, claon-aithris, droch fhortan, beachdan daingeann air am bogadh gu teann ann am mòine is mì-chèill – air a thoirt ri chèile gu sònraichte agus air a lìbhrigeadh le lùbadh èibhinn aig an deireadh dìreach mar a chithear ann am pantomaim, aig an am sònraichte seo den bhliadhna   Lèirmheas den chiad shealladh ann an Steòrnabhagh  of le Ann Palmer

Tha mi faireachdainn mar gu robh mi ann! Furasta ceangail ris, Roc air adhart!  Neach-amharc Spectrum Inbhir Nis Ann am Beurla, Gàidhlig agus truaill-chainnt Steòrnabhaigh

Air a mholadh do aoisean 14+

Co-obraichean:

Sgrìobhadair: Kevin MacNèill
Dràma: Nicola NicCartnaidh agus Studio Dràmadach na h-Alba
Stiùiriche: Muriel Anna NicLeòid
Fiolm:  Niall MacConnell
Dealbhaiche: Richard Groundsell
Actairean:  Daibhidh Walker, Carina NicLeòid, Fiona Mhoireasdan, Daibhidh Rennie-Fitzgerald, Ruaraidh MacIòmhair agus Gemma McGee
Ceòl: Uilleam Caimbeul

Theatre Hebrides have been awarded substantial funding toward a remount of our successful production of The Callanish Stoned by Kevin MacNeil. (which toured in the North of Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh in March 2006). The play will be showcased in An Lanntair in Stornoway on the 12&13th October and at Dràma Na h-Alba Scotland’s International Festival and Forum in Inverness 18 to 22nd  October 2007. The work will then tour out of Scotland to venues in Wales and Ireland.

The Callanish Stoned is an inventive, fast-moving, humorous, bi-lingual play based around one formative day’s tensions and shenanigans during Summer Solstice at the Callanish Stones, Lewis. The play focuses on a group of three friends and the insights they gain about life and each other as they meet up with some of the eccentric visitors who visit Lewis for the annual Callanish Stone Circle sub-culture and some equally eccentric locals who impede the journey to Callanish. Interwoven in the story is the dark passionate story of the life of the young Gaelic bard William Ross (1790).

Created as a road movie from the Western Isles the play is themed around issues of tolerance, belonging, evolving traditions, influence and identity. The play utilises English, Gaelic and native slang to powerful effect. It uses humour to touch on (but never trivialise) serious issues. It’s final premise demonstrates that people can only thrive if they tolerate and attempt to understand one another.

The play highlights issues of youth lifestyle, drug and alcohol use and the influence of peergroups and the pressures of contemporary culture. The Callanish Stoned seeks to show elements of our contemporary culture but does not make judgements on drink or drug issues but rather allows the audience to make up their own mind. The Callanish Stoned is aimed primarily but not exclusively at a young-ish age group (ranging from 14 to 25 approximately), specifically the kind of people who would very happily go to the cinema but would not normally go to the theatre.

Writer -  Kevin MacNeil
Dramaturg -  Nicola MacCartney and Scottish Playwrights Studio
Director - Muriel Ann Macleod (Artistic Director of Theatre Hebrides)
Actors -  David Walker, Carina Macleod, Annabelle Nicol, Fiona Morrison, David Fitzgerald, Neil McNulty
Contemporary Music -  William Campbell. (Locally based musician working in bands in Lewis and Glasgow).
Film - Neil McConnell (RapideyeTV,  Glasgow)
Designer - Richard Groundsell (Lewis based Theatre and Television designer)
Technical manager -  To be confirmed
Video Advert -  Rapid Eye (Glasgow)

theatreHEBRIDES
A Company Limited by Guarantee No: 233076, Scottish Charity No: 033294
C/O An Lanntair, Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis HS1 2DS
T;+44 (0) 1851 701193,  muriel@theatrehebrides.com   www.theatrehebrides.com

Craigmonie Centre, Drumnadrochit
Thursday 18th at 7.30pm / Saturday 20th at 2pm / Sunday 21st at 2pm
£8 (concessions £6)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

The Callanish Stoned

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National Theatre of Scotland - MOLLY SWEENEY By Brian Friel, Directed by Gregory Thompson, Designed by Ellen Cairns

Molly Sweeney has been unable to see since she was a child. Her lack of sight has neither held her back, nor lessened her sheer joy at everyday life. As a girl, her father taught her to recognise by touch every flower, shrub and tree in their walled garden so that she was at ease with her world…

Following a critically-acclaimed run at the Citizens’ Theatre Glasgow in 2005, the National Theatre of Scotland presents Molly Sweeney in a nationwide tour this autumn. Created by Brian Friel, one of Ireland’s foremost playwrights, Molly’s emotional journey is at the heart of one of our most thought-provoking modern dramas. When Molly marries the unemployed Frank, they embark on a relentless campaign to restore her sight. Packing an enormous dramatic and emotional punch, their journey results in them paying a wonderful, terrible price.

Imaginatively staged, the National Theatre of Scotland’s Molly Sweeney brings audiences into a touchingly intimate relationship with the play’s unfolding events.

Cara Kelly reprises her award-winning performance (Best Female Performance, Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland) in the title role and Gregory Thompson (Best Direction CATS), Artistic Director of Glasgow’s Tron Theatre, returns to direct.

‘…an utterly memorable and frighteningly profound production...Cara Kelly’s heart-stopping central performance…sets this production alight and keeps it burning with a steady blaze of theatrical energy…’ ***** The Scotsman

‘…a stunning central performance from Cara Kelly’ **** The Herald

‘Cara Kelly is mesmerizing as Molly…’ **** The Guardian

Molly Sweeney is presented by the National Theatre of Scotland Ensemble in association with the Citizens’ Theatre.

Running time 2½ hrs with an interval.

Lochardil Scout Hall
Friday 19th at 7.30pm / Saturday 20th at 7.30pm
£15 (concessions £10; early bird £12 and £8)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

Molly Sweeney

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National Theatre of Scotland - A Sheep Called Skye

Adapted by Nicola McCartney from the book A Sheep Called Skye by S. R. Harris.
Directed by Andrew Panton
Composer John Beales
Animations created by Ailie Cohen

Skye the sheep is used to being different. She never knew her mother and was brought up in a B&B, not a farm. She longs to discover the place where someone like her, a sheep who doesn't feel…well…sheepish, really belongs. As part of this quest, she decides to turn herself into a tourist attraction selling scarves and tea-towels in windy car parks - and business isn’t baaad at all.

Featuring live music and puppets animated and created by acclaimed puppeteer Ailie Cohen, this funny and original story has been adapted by the National Theatre Scotland into a wonderful piece of family theatre. A Sheep Called Skye will appeal to anyone who has an ear for the bleat of a special sheep, an eye for the beauty of the Scottish countryside and a place in their hearts for a sheep called Skye. You’d be maaad to miss it.
Recommended for children aged 5+ 

Lochardil Scout Hall
Friday 19th at 2.30pm / Saturday 20th at 2.30pm £5

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234 

A Sheep Called Skye

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Right Lines Productions ~ Whisky Kisses – a Musical in the Making.

Whisky Kisses was a finalist in last year’s international competition to find a new Scottish Musical – Highland Quest – which was sponsored by Eden Court Theatre, the Cameron Mackintosh Foundation and The Scottish Executive.
The show received a fantastic response from the judges, audiences and critics alike and came very close to winning the competition.  This was a tremendous achievement for Right Lines Productions, the Highlands-based theatre company behind the project and with the strong support of Eden Court Theatre, the company has been actively pursuing ways of ensuring that Whisky Kisses makes it all the way to a full production.

The presentation at DNA is the next step in that process and will feature a rehearsed reading of excerpts from Whisky Kisses including several songs from the original Highland Quest final showcase, plus new material.  The presentation will also focus on a “Musical in the Making”, with contributions from the professional team involved in the project to date.  This will offer a fascinating insight into the journey a home-grown Highland musical has taken from original idea to a show on the brink of full development.

Right Lines Productions is run by Euan Martin and Dave Smith.  The company has engaged musician Jim Bryce to write the music for the show. 

The Ironworks
Thursday 18th at 2.30pm
£6.50 (concessions £5)

Book online at www.thebooth.co.uk or at the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234234

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