National theatre of scotland’S 2018 season press Release – 29 November 2017 Jackie Wylie, Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland says
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Lewis Hetherington is a celebrated playwright and theatre-maker based in Scotland. His previous acclaimed collaborations with Ailie Cohen include The Secret Life of Suitcases and Cloud Man.Regional Screen Scotland owns and operates Screen Machine, Scotland’s mobile cinema, which brings the latest films to 40+ communities in remote and rural areas of Scotland. This collaboration with National Theatre of Scotland is part of an on-going programme to broaden the range of screen experiences which the Screen Machine can offer. Booking information Touring Scotland in 2018 - Brodick, Isle of Arran (Auchrannie Hotel)- 2pm, 06 January; Lochgilphead (Resource Centre)- 2pm, 13 January; Castlebay (The Pier)- 5.30pm, 16 January; Liniclate, Isle of Benbecula (Dark Island Hotel)- 2pm, 20 January; Kyleakin, Isle of Skye (Main car park)- 2pm, 27 January; Mallaig (Harbour area)- 5.30pm, 30 January; Lochcarron (Battery Park, Murray Sq)- 2pm, 03 February; Lochinver (Main Street)- 2pm, 10 February; Bettyhill (opposite Bettyhill Hotel)- 5.30pm, 15 February; Lairg (Lairg Community Centre)- 2pm, 17 February; Fort William (car park near Shinty Club)- 2pm, 24 February; Tobermory, Isle of Mull (Ledaig Car Park)- 2pm, 03 March. Booking information www.screenmachine.co.uk Join the conversation: #rocketpostonscreen
Part of Engine Room At Civic House, Glasgow on 26 & 27 January 2018 Just Start Here is a new playground for Scottish artists: a space to share and generate ideas, art and provocations, and to spark new collaborations across art-forms as well as offering a curated and supported platform for bold, vital work to find its feet in front of an audience. Just Start Here will take the form of a two day festival, an opportunity for artists, audiences and communities to come together to encounter something new in Civic House, a learning space for progressive forms of city development run by Agile City. It will also see the Company return to their previous office space before their move into their new Headquarters, within the same Speirs Wharf area Just Start Here will include new work-in-progress pieces of theatre, discussions, forums, provocations, music, dance, visual art and cross art form experimentation. Over the two days, the festival will explore race, ritual, food, family, tea, queer identities, grief, activism and cross-art form making featuring new work by Debbie Hannan, Laurie Brown and Hannah Lavery and music from Heir of the Cursed and DJs from Grassroots Glasgow. There will be the opportunity for artists from across art-forms to share practice and seed new cross-art-form work, curated by Ashanti Harris (Project X) and Camara Taylor (Transmission) and Adura Onashile will lead a series of one to one performances about intimacy, identity and the perfect cuppa. Later in the year, the National Theatre of Scotland will partner with Aberdeen Performing Arts to present Just Start Here in Aberdeen, in November. This will feature a day of climate change creative action, as part of Season for Change 2018 led by Julie’s Bicycle, Artsadmin and Battersea Arts Centre. Season for Change is running from June to December 2018 and sees the UK's creative community hosting a season of diverse, multidisciplinary responses across the arts, culture and creative industries. It is the first coordinated national response from artists and arts organisations speaking out together on the future of the planet. The Season will coincide with the landmark UN Climate of Parties 'COP24' talks taking place in November, critical in meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Theatre of Scotland presents How to Act Written and directed by Graham Eatough Performed by Robert Goodale and Jade Ogugua
Internationally-renowned theatre director Anthony Nicholl has travelled the globe on a life-long quest to discover the true essence of theatre. Today he is giving a masterclass. Nicholl will demonstrate, first-hand, the unique methods he cultivated in Africa and across many cultures throughout the world. Promise, an aspiring young actress, has volunteered to take part. What unfolds between them will ultimately force Nicholl to question all of his assumptions about his life and art.
The show will also bring a masterclass symposium to each city, inviting theatre makers, students and artists to join a real masterclass with Director Graham Eatough and specialist practitioners who will lead workshops in dramaturgy, playwriting and the devising process. The event will also be an opportunity for students from different courses to meet industry professionals and network with their peers. These events will take place in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness where How to Act is touring in March 2018. Further details to be announced. Graham Eatough is a major award-winning theatre-maker based in Scotland who also works in visual art and film. His work often blurs the boundaries between theatre and art, challenging an audience’s perceptions of reality and fiction and their terms of engagement.
Graham was Artistic Director of Suspect Culture theatre company from 1996 to 2009. His most recent work includes At Twilight in collaboration with artist Simon Starling for Common Guild Gallery, Nomanslanding (Sydney Harbour, Ruhrtrienalle) and In Camera with Graham Fagen (La Friche, Marseille). Robert Goodale’s recent theatre credits include Julius Caesar at Sheffield Theatres, Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare’s Globe and Bug at Found 111. He is known for a wide range of popular TV roles including Holby City, Doctors and Foyles War and is due to appear in the BBC’s forthcoming new series McMafia. He recently co-wrote and performed in Perfect Nonsense, a play about Jeeves and Wooster which won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2014. Jade Ogugua’s theatre credits include The Barnbow Canaries (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and The Tempest (Northern Stage & Oxford Playhouse), with TV roles in Scrotal Recall, Series 2 (Netflix/C4), Casualty (BBC) and The Guilty (Hartswood Films). At The Changing House, Tron Theatre (06 to 10 March 2018); The Traverse Theatre (13 to 17 March); Eden Court (20 & 21 March 2018) and The Byre Theatre, St Andrews (23 March 2018). Opening performance at the Changing House, Tron Theatre, on 7 March 2018 Join the conversation: #Howtoact ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Theatre of Scotland, Culture NL and North Lanarkshire Council present SHIFT Written and directed by Simon Sharkey, Associate Director Fraser MacLeod, Designer Becky Minto, Movement Director Brigid McCarthy, Sound Designer Philip Pinsky, Video Designer Tim Reid, Lighting Designer Simon Hayes Supported by the National Lottery through Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland, William Grant Foundation, and Liberty Steel Dalzell A site-specific outdoor theatre event at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life From 29 March to 1 April 2018 A series of exhibitions, installations and youth theatre performances across North Lanarkshire in the lead up to final event. In October 2017, partners, National Theatre of Scotland, CultureNL and North Lanarkshire Council launched SHIFT, a major participatory arts project for the people of North Lanarkshire across Motherwell, Wishaw, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth, Airdrie, Bellshill and Coatbridge, created and directed by Simon Sharkey, running from October 2017 to March 2018. Over this six month period, SHIFT has been engaging with communities across the local authority area, through a number of creative projects leading up to a series of large site-specific participatory finale performances, involving a community and professional cast which will take place at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life in March 2018. Situated in Coatbridge, once known as the ‘Iron Burgh’ and a significant contributor to Scotland’s ‘industrial heartland’, Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life is built on the site of the former Summerlee Ironworks, a Lanarkshire factory at the core of the Scottish smelting industry and of such national importance that its 19th century remains are listed by Historic Environment Scotland as a Schedules Monument. Summerlee Museum will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in March 2018 and this production will form part of their birthday programme. Directed by National Theatre of Scotland Associate Director, Simon Sharkey, Shift will be a large-scale, multi-media theatrical event featuring original music and words from punters, poets, playwrights and pen-smiths from across North Lanarkshire. Shift will tell the stories of the many ‘shifts’ put in by the workers who built the world and created our future. Shift will be a visceral immersion into a world of work where senses will be stirred with the sights, sounds and smells of bygone eras, bright new futures and urgent new ideas hatching around us. Told through song, poetry and prose it will introduce the ordinary people and the extraordinary leaders who shaped and tested our society through hard graft. Mothers, farmers, soldiers, nurses, politicians, steel workers, teachers, thinkers, designers, scientists, shop assistants and factory workers will gather in one space to celebrate their past and step boldly in to an unknown future. A National Theatre of Scotland team of artists continue to work with CultureNL arts, venues and heritage teams, museums and libraries to reach into the heart of local communities to collect stories and insights about the world of work which will be transformed throughout the project into art works. These will be showcased in upcoming events including: Shift: Lockers, a series of interactive multi-media installations across North Lanarkshire post industrial sites from December 2017. Future Forecasts, created by Culture NL Youth Theatre, a TV magazine style programme broadcast that will report on how subjects such as technology, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Bit Coin, nano technology, robots and energy will change our lives and how we work. At Airdrie Town Hall on on 5 February 2018 and Motherwell Concert Hall on 7 February 2018. Shift Exhibition, artist Alan Grieve, working with CultureNL arts groups, will create a series of panels depicting the working lives of local people from past and present, which will be exhibited along with work related photographs contributed by the Shift Photography Project. The panels will be revealed to the public at a Motherwell venue on the week of the 12 February alongside a selection of local photographs. The Shift Facebook Page is live and holds all information about the Shift events that are taking place across North Lanarkshire. It also encourages the local people to join the Shift conversation, tell us their work stories and send in their work related photos. Join the conversation: facebook.com/NLShift #NLShift 29 March to 01 April 2018 Booking information: Doors open 7.45pm for 8pm start £10 (£8/£5 Year of Young People) Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Heritage Way, Coatbridge ML5 1QD Box office – 01698 403120 / Online at www.nationaltheatrescotland.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Theatre of Scotland and Catherine Wheels Theatre Company present Eddie and the Slumber Sisters Created and Directed by Gill Robertson, written by Anita Vettesse, designed by Karen Tennent, music composed by Danny Krass, lighting designed by Lizzie Powell. Cast: Chiara Sparkes (Eddie) and Angela Darcy, India Shaw-Smith and Colette Dalal Dchantcho (the Slumber Sisters)
The National Theatre of Scotland teams up with the award-winning Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, one of Scotland’s leading producers of children’s theatre, to present a new immersive theatre show for children and families. Eddie and the Slumber Sisters is created and directed by Catherine Wheels’ Artistic Director Gill Robertson and will tour across Scotland from April 2018. Blending music, magic, and imagination, Eddie and the Slumber Sisters is a whimsical, heart-warming fable which explores the realities of grief through the eyes of a child. Eddie might be quiet and reserved by day, but at night her dreams are increasingly wild, chaotic and sometimes terrifying. It’s been like this ever since her gran died; and Eddie’s gran was a one-off; bright, exuberant and silly but most importantly she was Eddie’s best pal, the one person she could really talk to about everything. Enter the Slumber Sisters: an all-singing trio whose job it is to monitor our dreams and ensure that our night-time wanderings remain healthy and safe. Armed with an infinite supply of imaginative remedies, they’re ready to lead Eddie safely through the night and use her dreams to nurse her as she comes to terms with losing someone she really loves. Director Gill Robertson’s previous work with the National Theatre of Scotland include HOME East Lothian, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Martha, which toured schools as part of the inaugural Theatre in Schools Scotland project in 2016. Catherine Wheels’ current productions include the globe-trotting White, which continues to tour across Europe, and How to Fix a Broken Wing (by Peter Collins) which tours Scottish Primary Schools in Spring 2018 as part of Theatre in Schools Scotland. Join the conversation: #Slumbersisters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The National Theatre of Scotland presents The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart Created by David Greig (writer) and Wils Wilson (director) with designer Georgia McGuinness, composer Alasdair Macrae and movement by Janice Parker Cast includes George Drennan, Jessica Hardwick, Owen Whitelaw, Peter Hannah and Gwendolen Chatfield Touring to Edinburgh, Mull, Oban, and North Carolina (USA) from 14 May to 09 June 2018. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart returns to the stage in 2018, as David Greig and Wils Wilson’s celebrated folk theatre fable prepares for new dates in Scotland and the USA. One of the National Theatre of Scotland’s most beloved and iconic productions, the show takes over and transforms non-traditional performance spaces to weave an innovative and immersive theatrical experience. This year the show will open in Edinburgh on 14 May, returning to the city and the Assembly Roxy for the first time since 2014, before visiting the west coast for performances in Oban and Mull. The show will then head back to the USA from 31 May for a two-week run at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, North Carolina, one of North American’s premier performing arts festivals. Since premiering in Glasgow in 2011 The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart has enjoyed phenomenal success both at home and abroad, touring extensively to audience and critical acclaim across the world. In keeping with the show’s site-specific origins it is often staged in non-traditional theatre spaces, popping up in taverns, village halls, bars and breweries. In 2016 the show embarked on an extensive Scottish and US tour, culminating in a six-month residency at New York’s famous McKittrick Hotel, home of Punchdrunk Theatre’s wildly acclaimed show Sleep No More. The show was awarded the 2017 Drama Desk Award for Best Unique Theatrical Experience. “I left it in a state of happy intoxication.” – New York Times, Critics Pick “it should tour for eternity” **** The Guardian (London) One wintry morning, Prudencia Hart, an uptight academic, sets off to attend a conference in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. As the snow begins to fall, little does she know who or what awaits her there. Delivered in a riotous romp of rhyming couplets, devilish encounters and wild karaoke - Prudencia’s dream-like journey of self-discovery unfolds among and around the audience. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart takes theatre into pubs and other unlikely venues, where stories are told, re-told, sung and passed on. Audiences are invited to share a lock-in with the National Theatre of Scotland's company of actors and musicians and to indulge in an evening of supernatural storytelling, music and theatre inspired by the Border Ballads, Robert Burns and the poems of Robert Service. Touring to Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh (14 to 20 May 2018); Bunessan Hall, Mull (23 May 2018); Aros Hall, Tobermory, Mull (24 May 2018); Corran Hall, Oban (25 May 2018); Spoleto Festival (Charleston, South Carolina) - Woolfe Street Playhouse (31 May to 09 June 2018). Opening performance: 15 May 2018 at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Join the conversation: #PrudenciaHart --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The National Theatre of Scotland’s emotive and powerful shows about two real trans lives, are set to return in 2018. Both shows debuted at the Traverse Theatre during the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, earning substantial critical acclaim and striking a chord with audiences throughout the Festival. In 2018, Adam returns to the stage to play at the Beacon Arts Centre from 4 to 5 May and Brighton Festival from 9 to 12 May, before Adam and Eve are presented in a double bill at Dundee Rep from 24 to 26 May 2018.
Written by Jo Clifford and Chris Goode Director and set designer Susan Worsfold; lighting designer Kai Fischer; sound designer Matt Padden; costume designer Aileen Sherry; composer Chris Goode and projection designer Seth Hardwick. Performed by Jo Clifford Eve, performed by acclaimed playwright and performer Jo Clifford, offers audiences an authentic and intimate insight into the real life experiences of a trans person. The performance is a profound reflection on one trans woman's life, from an oppressive 1950s boyhood to the present day. Following her turbulent life journey through a time of huge personal, social and political change, Eve celebrates the victories of survival and self-actualization. A deeply personal piece that speaks generously to, and for, a much wider community, Eve is a performance in which the smallest details of everyday life can open up cracks through which memories, dreams and reflections flood in. Performed with warmth and humour, passion and anger, Eve invites audiences into the most intimate relationship with the story of an individual’s life. ‘a brave, searing and sorrowful solo turn’- The Telegraph Eve is created by ground-breaking writer and performer Jo Clifford (The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven) and the award-winning theatre-maker Chris Goode (Men in the Cities and Sisters). It was Clifford’s 91st play in a remarkable career that has seen her work performed across the world. She was the first openly transgendered woman playwright to have had a play produced on London’s West End stage and earlier in 2017 was welcomed into the Saltire Society’s “Outstanding Women of Scotland” community. Also in 2017 her translation of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba was presented by Graeae Theatre Company at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Jo Clifford and Chris Goode also recently collaborated on Jo’s play Every One which received its English premiere at Battersea Arts Centre, London in 2016. Jo Clifford collaborates again with director Susan Worsfold. They originally worked together on The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven and most recently on War in America, presented by the Attic Collective at the Former Royal High School, in May 2017. With trans rights under threat globally, legendary playwright, performer, father and grandmother Jo Clifford tells a story both gentle and passionate, intimate and political, to remind us that the journey towards our real selves is one we all need to make, wherever it leads us. ADAM Conceived for the stage and directed by Cora Bissett, written by Frances Poet, with music composed by Jocelyn Pook, set and costume design by Emily James, sound design by Garry Boyle, lighting design by Lizzie Powell, projection design by Jack Henry James and movement direction by Janis Claxton Performed by Adam Kashmiry
‘a powerful story of transcendence’--The Herald Adam is a powerful two hander, featuring a stand–out performance by Adam Kashmiry. Adam is the real person on whom the drama is based, who made a notable professional stage debut in the production last year. He previously appeared in the Citizen Theatre's and Scottish Refugee Council's Here We Stay at the Tron Theatre as part of Scottish Refugee Week in 2013. He was closely involved in the development of the show, focussing as it does on his own personal experiences. Featuring a score sung by a virtual choir of trans and non-binary individuals from across the world who are projected onto the stage, Adam is both a bold exploration of the experience of a young transgender person and an ambitious experiment with theatrical form, blending storytelling, classical composition and mass digital elements from participants from around the globe. Adam sees the National Theatre of Scotland return to Brighton Festival, which the Company has previously visited with shows The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (2012), The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (2015) and Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (2016). Artist and designer David Shrigley is the festival’s Guest Director for 2018. Adam is at the Beacon Arts Centre (04 & 05 May 2018) and Brighton Festival (09 to 12 May 2018) and Adam and Eve at Dundee Rep Theatre (24 to 26 May 2018). Join the conversation: #NTSAdam and #NTSEve --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me by Tania El Khoury, Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) by Split Britches Adrian Howells Award for Intimate performance Take Me Somewhere’s ARTIST CONSTELLATION programme. Take Me Somewhere and National Theatre of Scotland present As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, created by Tania El Khoury and performed by Basel Zaara in Glasgow from 24 to 27 May 2018
Tania commissioned Basel to record a song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden. The audience member listens through headphones to a rap song written and performed by Basel while he paints on their arm. Tania El Khoury is an artist working between London and Beirut. She creates interactive installations and challenging performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Tania’s solo work has toured internationally, and for which she is the recipient of the Total Theatre Innovation Award and the Arches Brick Award. She is the co-founder of Dictaphone Group, a research and performance collective aiming at reclaiming public space in Lebanon. Basel Zaraa is an artist and musician. He is a Palestinian refugee, born and brought up in Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria. He now lives and works in the UK. Take Me Somewhere, National Theatre of Scotland and Platform with support from Luminate and Outspoken Arts Scotland present Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) by Split Britches at Platform, Glasgow on 26 May 2018 Combining a Dr Strangelove-inspired performance with a daring forum for public conversation, Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) explores ageing, anxiety, hidden desires and how to look forward when the future is uncertain. In the Situation Room, twelve audience members are invited to become a Council of Elders to discuss the global issues of the day, as the company weave in satirical insights and humour. Adopting the characters of a bombastic general and ineffectual president, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of Split Britches present this interactive piece as equal parts comedy performance and urgent political discussion. The show was created and developed over two years through a series of residencies with elders and artists that began at London’s Barbican in 2016 and continued in the US. Founded in New York in 1980 with Deb Margolin, Split Britches continues with the duo and solo work of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw spanning satirical, gender-bending performance, public engagement, videography, digital and print media, explorations of ageing and wellbeing, and iconic lesbian-feminist theatre. The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is led by Take Me Somewhere Festival, The National Theatre of Scotland and Battersea Arts Centre with support from the University of Glasgow and the Live Art Development Agency. Adrian Howells (1962 – 2014) was one of the world’s leading figures in the field of one to one and intimate performance. The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is an opportunity for a UK artist to develop and present an early staging of a new performance based project in Glasgow and London. The Award aims to celebrate the intimate work that Adrian pioneered and excelled at, as well as providing an opportunity to explore new territories in the field of one to one and intimate performance. The winner of the award will be announced in March 2018. Take Me Somewhere Festival are piloting an exciting new artist development scheme: Take Me Somewhere Artist Constellation, supported by the National Theatre of Scotland. Three Scottish artists working in contemporary performance will be chosen to be associated with Take Me Somewhere festival for a year. They will receive mentoring support, support for seeing work in arts festivals, free tickets for the Take me Somewhere 2018 festival and opportunities to engage with invited international artists and academics as part of Take Me Somewhere’s and National Theatre of Scotland’s programmes in 2018. Take Me Somewhere is Glasgow’s new festival of contemporary performance, building on the legacy of The Arches following its closure in 2015. The festival combines the best home-grown talent with some of the world’s most cutting-edge contemporary performers, and artistic development opportunities as part of a rich programme of events. Take Me Somewhere aims to provide a crucial support structure to Scotland’s most innovative and exciting community of artists and makers. The festival was founded in 2017 by Jackie Wylie, now Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, with the inaugural festival proving to be a huge success with both critics and audiences, selling out at venues across Glasgow. The 2018 festival will take place in May and will be led by new Artistic Director LJ Findlay-Walsh and Executive Producer Gillian Garrity. National Theatre of Scotland, the Tron Theatre and Traverse Theatre new writing initiative The National Theatre of Scotland collaborates with the Tron Theatre and Traverse Theatre to bring two new shows to Glasgow and Edinburgh in the Spring of 2018, in a new three-way partnership conceived to create more opportunities to put new plays on stage. Each play will be performed at their producing venue before touring to the partner venue. Traverse Theatre Company in association with National Theatre of Scotland presents GUT Written by Frances Poet, directed by Zinnie Harris I know my boy. I’d know if something had happened to him. Maddy and Rory are devoted parents to 3-year-old Joshua, committed to keeping him happy and safe. But when an everyday visit to a supermarket café turns into a far more troubling incident, their trust even in those closest to them is shattered. Fear and doubt consume them, until they reach a savage breaking point. Gut is a taut psychological thriller that explores who we can trust with our children, and whether it’s more dangerous not to trust at all. Written by Fringe First award-winning playwright Frances Poet (Adam), Gut was shortlisted for the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and is directed by award-winning Traverse Associate Director Zinnie Harris. At the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (20 April to 12 May) and Tron Theatre, Glasgow (15 to 19 May 2018). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tron Theatre Company in association with National Theatre of Scotland presents Ma, Pa and the Little Mouths Written by Martin McCormick, directed by Andy Arnold A snake will always find a way in. And he has. We’ve been sleeping so long that he’s had a feast… And this snake has been devouring them all whilst you and I are asleep in the next room. We’ve been standing on their tiny bones the entire time. With unseen ‘little mouths’ and the belching fumes of the local refinery as a backdrop, we find ourselves in the beguiling world of Ma and Pa who spend their time exchanging extraordinary and fantastic stories …until suddenly there is a knock at the door…. Ma, Pa, and the Little Mouths is a new work by award-winning playwright and actor Martin McCormick. Martin’s previous work includes Squash (Winner, best new play CATS 2015), The Day the Pope Emptied Croy (Traverse/Play Pie Pint), Flo (Play Pie Pint/Lemon Tree), Potterrow (Best Short Play 2015), and News Just In (Random Accomplice). The show will be directed by the Tron’s Artistic Director Andy Arnold. At the Tron Theatre, Glasgow (3 to 12 May) then touring to Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (16 to 19 May 2018). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Theatre of Scotland presents The Reason I Jump based on the book by Naoki Higoshida, translated by David Mitchell and Keiko Yoshida Production conceived and directed by Graham Eatough, designed by Observatorium, dramaturgy by Clare Duffy, choreography by Zoe Halliday. Performers include Michael Dawson, Calum MacRitchie, Emma McCaffrey and Nicola Tuxworth. An outdoor site-specific performance at The Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow, Glasgow in June 2018. Leading Scottish artist and theatre-maker Graham Eatough directs and adapts The Reason I Jump, a new project exploring the realities and experience of living with autism. Inspired by the bestselling Naoki Higoshida book of the same name, translated into English by Keiko Yoshida and Cloud Atlas-author David Mitchell in 2013, the piece will take the form of a unique site-specific installation in the Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow in the summer of 2018. Originally written when the author was just thirteen years old, The Reason I Jump chronicled Higoshida’s experience of his severe autistic spectrum disorder by answering questions that were often levelled at him. After its English translation by Yoshida and Mitchell, themselves the parents of an autistic child, the book became an international hit, topping the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists, and was praised for its honest and eye-opening insights into the realities of living with autism. This adaptation will be a unique blend of site-specific promenade performance and interactive installation. Created with, and performed by, a group of artists with autism ranging from 16 to 60 years old, the piece will see audiences journey through a mysterious and beautiful series of outdoor mazes in order to experience the work. The mazes will house different scenes, drawn from experiences in the book as well as the personal experiences of the performers themselves. The performance will offer a highly innovative insight into the infinite number of ways human beings experience life and achieve fulfilment. The production will be accessible to both autistic and non-autistic audience members. The labyrinth structures will be created with artists from Rotterdam-based practice Observatorium, who previously collaborated with Eatough on the celebrated international artwork Nomanslanding, which was presented at Sydney Harbour, the Ruhrtrienalle, Germany and Tramway, Glasgow. The group specialise in transforming environments and urban areas through eye-catching architecture and open-air sculptures. The Children's Wood and North Kelvin Meadow is an award-winning community green space in North Glasgow. Regular events are organised by the community on the land, designed to connect children to nature, raise aspirations and bring people together. Graham Eatough is an award-winning theatre-maker based in Scotland who also works in visual art and film. His work often blurs the boundaries between theatre and art, challenging an audience’s perceptions of reality and fiction and their terms of engagement. His previous projects include the celebrated production of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2015, and No End to Enderby, a major commission for Manchester International Festival 2017 with artist Stephen Sutcliffe. His most recent show with the National Theatre of Scotland, How to Act, was an award-winning hit at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and tours Scotland in 2018. The Reason I Jump has its roots in a Scottish government initiative called Limitless, a collaboration between The National Theatre of Scotland, RCS, and the National Autistic Society Scotland which explored the potential of creative arts in engaging and encouraging work by and for autistic children, teenagers, and young adults. Join the conversation: #TheReasonIJump Full booking info available early 2018. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Theatre of Scotland in partnership with Eden Court presents Exchange 2018 at Eden Court, Inverness from 2 to 8 July 2018 The National Theatre of Scotland’s international youth theatre festival for 16 to 25 year olds Lead Creatives: Simon Sharkey, Sarah Rose Graber, Peter Lannon, Fraser MacLeod, Martin O’Connor. The National Theatre of Scotland’s vibrant Exchange programme, which brings together young theatre-makers (aged 16 to 25 years old) from the UK and beyond, is set to return in 2018. Now in its ninth year, Exchange aims to facilitate a national and international exchange and to enable the groups to create and perform new pieces of theatre with the help and support of a professional creative team. Ten groups of young theatre-makers have been selected to take part in Exchange 2018; eight groups from Scotland and the UK, and two international groups. The groups are each supported artistically and financially in the creation of an original work of quality contemporary theatre. Each theatre piece is initially performed in the group’s home area before the companies come together for a week-long festival at Eden Court Theatre, in Inverness, at the beginning of July. As well as staging their work, this residential week will see the participating groups working with leading Scottish creatives to develop their skills through workshops, master classes, discussions, forums, and broadcast of all the activity online via the popular Exchange TV. The UK theatre groups taking part in Exchange 2018 are:
Mull Youth Theatre, Isle of Mull Reading Rep Youth Theatre, Reading Dundee rep Young Company, Dundee Creative Electric, Edinburgh Ovalhouse Performance Company, London Performance Collective, Stranraer Ditto Theatre Company, Collective from Southend/London/Stratford-upon Avon/Nottingham Eden Court Collective, Inverness The two international companies for 2018 are: TNV Company from Malta Albany Park Theatre Project, Chicago Performances: Two groups each evening at 7.30pm and 9pm from 2 to 8 July 2018 Venue: Eden Court Theatre, Inverness ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Theatre of Scotland, Théâtre PÀP and Hôtel-Motel present First Snow/Première Neige Written by Davey Anderson, Linda McLean and Philippe Ducros Directed by Patrice Dubois Cast includes: Isabelle Vincent, Harry Standjofski, Catherine Chabot, François Bernier, Guillermina Kerwin At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2018
The National Theatre of Scotland is creatively collaborating with partners in Québéc to explore issues of sovereignty, both personal and national. First Snow/Première Neige is written by Davey Anderson, Linda McLean, Philippe Ducros and directed by Théâtre PÀP’s Artistic Director, Patrice Dubois. Following development in both Glasgow and Québéc, over the last three years, First Snow/Première Neige is a bi-lingual play, to be performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, by a leading ensemble of Scottish and Québécois actors. Two nations entwined with more powerful neighbours in very different ways. Two places with big hearts and even bigger ambitions. Isabelle’s family descend upon their ancestral home to discuss what to do with their mother, the house and the land. But they can’t stop arguing about the past and have very different visions of the future. It’s a dispute that's been a long time in the making and has no simple solution. A sharing of stories, true and imagined, combined with music, poetry and art, First Snow/Première Neige brings together a collaborative team from across the nations to explore the disagreements that have driven the past to our doors, with questions to be asked about our futures and the control of our destinies. Both Québec and Scotland have experienced independence/sovereignty movements. This phenomenon has appeared in a number of countries but the experiences of these two countries are near unique, having both progressed through official referendums. Following on from the National Theatre of Scotland’s collaboration with the New York theatre company, TEAM, First Snow/Première Neige is another international co-production, bringing together three companies, to creating timely theatre about nations wrestling with history, culture and politics. Theatre PÀP’s work always revolves around text, to sharpen the thinking of its artistic collaborators and audiences, and allow them to connect with the pulse of the world. The company focuses on the synergy between performers and designers during the artistic process, to create a holistic collaborative exchange and a distinct aesthetic. For almost 40 years, the PÀP (Petit À Petit) has been promoting Quebec’s francophone dramaturgy. Based in Montreal since 1978, the company has also toured throughout Canada and Europe. HÔTEL-MOTEL productions want the audience to cross borders towards one another, allowing them to see themselves as communicating vessels of the same world. After looking at Bosnia, Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo, HÔTEL-MOTEL are now turning their gaze inwards, looking at the Québec people's ability to master their own destiny. Join the conversation: #FirstSnow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival present Midsummer by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre At The Hub, Edinburgh International Festival in August 2018 Midsummer, David Greig and Gordon McIntyre’s phenomenally successful musical comedy, will receive a radical restaging in co-production with the Edinburgh International Festival. The play was first performed at the Traverse in 2008, before touring nationally and internationally to huge acclaim. Set in Edinburgh, it follows solitary thirty-somethings Bob and Helena on a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers. This National Theatre of Scotland version will take the play in a new direction, placing audiences at the very heart of the action with heightened musicality and a joyful energy. Midsummer will take up residency at The Hub, the home of the Edinburgh International Festival, throughout August, offering International Festival audiences a nightly musical rom-com rollercoaster. "at Midsummer’s heart lies the ingeniously conveyed moral that it is possible to change our lives for the better, the fervent conviction that love can take us by surprise just when we least expect it"- The Telegraph Previous resident performers at The Hub have included cabaret artist Meow Meow, performing her subversive take on The Little Mermaid in 2017, while 2016 saw Alan Cumming return to Scotland with his celebrated late-night musical show Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs. The National Theatre of Scotland returns to the Edinburgh International Festival following previous co-presentations including Realism, The Bacchae, 365, Caledonia, The James Plays, Dragon, Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Anything that Gives Off Light. David Greig is Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and one of the UK's foremost playwrights. Gordon McIntyre is an Edinburgh based musician and founding member of Scottish indie band, Ballboy. Join the conversation: #Midsummer2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Birds of Paradise and the National Theatre of Scotland present My by Robert Softley Gale at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2018 The National Theatre of Scotland will team up, for the first time, with Birds of Paradise Theatre, Scotland’s leading disability-led performance company to co-present My The show follows a local amateur dramatic group who, faced with the threat of funding cuts if they don’t up their representation, come up with a cunning plan: they will create a dazzling show starring ‘the disabled’. Taking their cues from My Left Foot, the bestselling memoir of a life with cerebral palsy by Irish author Christy Brown, later turned into an Oscar-winning film, the production quickly descends into hilarious farce.
Robert Softley Gale is a leading actor, performer, writer, disability rights activist and advocate of equality of access to the arts for disabled people. Notable productions include Girl X for the National Theatre of Scotland, directed by Pol Heyvaert of Belgium’s CAMPO. His award-winning writing debut and solo performance If These Spasms Could Speak was a hit of the 2013 Made in Scotland programme and has subsequently toured internationally to countries including Brazil and India. Robert joined Birds of Paradise as co-Artistic Director in November 2013. Birds of Paradise's recent productions include The Tin Soldier at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre studio for Christmas 2017, the "shockingly funny" Blanche & Butch by Robert Softley Gale, which toured Scotland earlier in 2017and Miranda and Caliban, created with Glasgow hip-hop legends Hector Bizerk and performed in Glasgow and Hong Kong in 2016, in English, Cantonese, British Sign Language and Hong Kong Sign Language for both a live and digital audience. Venue and booking information available in 2018. Join the conversation: #MyLeftRightFoot
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