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The award-winning St Serf’s Players celebrate a special anniversary this year and the popular local amateur dramatic society are staging Tony Roper’s hilarious ‘The Steamie’ later this month as part of their birthday celebrations.
Don’t miss it!
Tag: drama
Auditory Hallucinations. Eh?
Creative Electric have a new production touring Scotland that we thought you’d like to know about!
Auditory Hallucinations is an interactive theatre production that explores the comfort we find within our own heads.
Memories.
Moments.
Things that belong only to us.
Creative Electric were awarded Quality Production funding from Creative Scotland to create an interactive piece exploring memories. Inspired by an artists debate in Stockholm in February 2012, where the idea of collecting performance art and moments was discussed, the company decided to explore whether it was possible to own another’s moment and, in the case of verbatim theatre, their memory. The result is a little insight into a memory that the audience can share with performers. We’d love you to be a part of it.
Please note audiences are capped at a maximum of 15 people.
Audience members will be required to wear headsets.
Auditory Hallucinations is a part of Creative Electric’s emerging artists programme where the company aim to support artists at the early stage of their career with paid work and mentoring. This is the companies second emerging artists production.
‘Debutantes’ was produced in February 2012 and was performed in Edinburgh, Glasgow and at Stoff Festival Stockholm where it was nominated for the Audience Choice Award.
Performance Dates:
Howden Park, Livingston (Previews) 27th April 7 & 8pm
The Bongo Club, Edinburgh
30th April 8 & 9pm
1st May 8 & 9pm
4th May 2 & 3pm
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 7th May 7, 8 & 9pm 8th May 8 & 9pm.
Imaginate Fringe, Traverse Theatre Bar 12th May 12-6pm (adaption, installations running throughout the day, no ticket required)
The Space, North Berwick 14th May 7.30 & 8.15pm
Kelburn Garden Party 6th & 7th July. (included in festival ticket price)
Tickets £5.
Each performance can accommodate an audience of up to 15 people.
For reservations email Creative_electric@hotmail.com
To keep up to date with Creative Electric please add https://www.facebook.com/CreativeElectric
Independence? Posing the question through drama
That referendum – made your mind up yet? If leaflets, TV debates and party political broadcasts leave you unmoved, maybe a drama performance will spark some interest and generate debate? Inverleith CLD worker Callum McLeod is certainly enthusiastic about a forthcoming event:
I’ve attached a poster advertising performances by Inverleith Youth Theatre which will take place in Broughton High School and North Edinburgh Arts theatres of in two weeks time (details in the poster).
The ‘Stuck In The Middle’ storyline concerns a teenage male’s journey and his subsequent thoughts towards becoming “Independent”. However, I’m sure the audience will find various other messages and subplots – and perhaps even a wider social issue for them to explore through the watching the performance!
We’re also planning the event so that there’ll be space at the end for discussion and so folk will have time to discuss the piece further, and share their thoughts with other audience members – and we do imagine that the subject matter will carry over for some time!
Without doubt, I’m slightly biased towards Inverleith Youth Theatre’s performances but they are usually of a good standard and so I can honestly say that I’m sure this will be a fab performance and well worth attending!
The main aim of the performance is to get as many people as possible talking and thinking about the actual issues raised, so we’ve made the event free. We’ll still be taking donations though as this youth group are trying to take it’s members – and the performance – to a youth drama camp over the summer, so any contributions towards this will be welcomed!
Inverleith Youth Theatre’s ‘Stuck In The Middle’ performance dates:
Tuesday 16 April 7pm Broughton High School
and
Thursday 18 April 7pm North Edinburgh Arts
Callum McLeod
Inverleith CLD, Broughton High School
Muirhouse set to stage double arts event next Friday
Muirhouse is the place to be for culture vultures next Friday, with not one but two big arts events planned:
North Edinburgh Arts is hosting ‘Echoes’ on Friday 12 April at 7pm
A new version of Mamma Mia has been written by a community group fighting the city council’s plans to close Castlebrae secondary school.
The Abba track IT, will be sung by members of the Save the Brae campaign group during a performance of a play that they have written called Echoes, which will express their opposition to and frustration over the council’s proposals for the school next summer.
Among those taking part in the play is Kevin Finlay, chair of the Save the Brae group, who said: “I think if you go back in history, any local issues like this have been tackled by using arts to get points across.”
Around eight men and women, most of whom are members of Save the Brae will perform the 55-minute play at North Edinburgh Arts on Friday 12 April at 7pm.
Susan Heron, 54, plays Ina in the play – a fictional character who has lived in Craigmillar all her life and doesn’t want the school to close. Susan says the play was a “powerful statement of how Castlebrae school life was and is”.
Tickets are £3 or £2 Good Neighbours (GN) price. To book tickets please call Box Office on 0131 315 2151
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and in the afternoon …
Travelling Gallery visits Craigroyston High School on Friday 12 April 1 – 4pm
with ‘feel-good’ art exhibition
The Travelling Gallery will be visiting Craigroyston High School on Friday 12 April, with its latest exhibition ‘Turquoise Heid’ on board. This curiously named exhibition is a busy group show of established and emerging artists from both home and abroad.
Working in a broad range of media including drawing, animation, film, sculpture, photography, performance, collage and painting, the exhibition will include artists who use a playful, childlike, feel good essence in their work, sometimes hiding darker depths but more often making us smile. The simplicity and low-tech nature of many of the artworks disguises sometimes complex processes and skills but also makes the exhibition instantly accessible to audiences of all ages.
’Turquoise Heid’ includes work by artists Matthew Barnes, Olivia Bee, Yeodoo Jung, Peter McDonald, Alex Millar, Jock Mooney, Kim Rugg, Yukako Sakakura and David Shrigley.
Visitors can also look out for artist Ellie Harrison’s Early Warning Sign which the Travelling Gallery is hosting in 2013 and which will sit outside the vehicle. Utilising the brazen marketing techniques of capitalism, the sign attempts to grab the attention of passers-by: to remind them of the consequences of excessive consumption and to force climate change back on the agenda. The harder the wind blows, the faster they go! www.ellieharrison.com.
The Travelling Gallery is a custom-built, mobile, contemporary art space inside a big beautiful bus. Supported by Creative Scotland, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Museums and Arts Division of the City of Edinburgh Council, the Travelling Gallery brings high quality contemporary art exhibitions and events to schools and communities throughout Scotland.
North Edinburgh Arts has arranged for the gallery to be open to the public on Friday afternoon at Craigroyston High School. The Travelling Gallery’s visit has been supported by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Children and Families Department.
See www.travellinggallery.com for all the details or ‘like’ on Facebook
Bingo! Citadel play brings the ‘house’ down!
PORT OF LEITH RESIDENTS ENJOY CITADEL ARTS GROUP PERFORMANCE
Sheltered housing residents at Port of Leith’s Jameson Place and St Nicholas Court complex were entertained to an unusual play presented by Citadel Arts Group recently. ‘Bingo!’ written by retired engineer Alan Mountford, not only included a real game of the popular activity, but demonstrated how people can get quite possessive about the seat where they usually sit – especially when they are playing bingo.
The cast of Caroline MacKellar (Betty), Sharon Erskine (newcomer, Morag) and Mark Kydd (careworker and amateur bingo caller) treated the audience to afternoon of fun and entertainment.
Liz Hare, Artistic Director at Citadel Arts Group, said: “Citadel Arts Group gives older writers the chance to see their work professionally performed in a variety of settings including libraries, pubs, theatres, schools and centres for elderly people. We regularly perform for Port of Leith Housing Association residents who thoroughly enjoy our performances, but I think this was their favourite as they also got the chance to play bingo!”
Elaine Edwards, Scheme Co-ordinator at the Port of Leith Housing Association’s Jameson Place Sheltered Housing Complex, said: “Our residents had a great time. Many of them used to be keen bingo players, so it’s nice when there is something for them to relate to and get involved in.”
Curtain up on community drama at St Serf’s
The Scottish Community Drama Association (SCDA) Edinburgh District’s One Act Festival takes place at St Serf’s Church Hall on Clark Road from 14 – 16 February. Over three evenings, theatregoers will be entertained by:
Thursday 14 February
1. Leitheatre ( Kirkgate) with ‘Still Life’ by Noel Coward
2. Edinburgh People’s Theatre with ‘Ritual For Dolls’ by George MacEwan Greene
3. The Mercators with‘Cupboard Love’ by Jean McConnel
Friday 15 February
1. Edinburgh Makars with ‘Just Passing’ by Colin & Mary Crowther
2. St Serfs (Afton) with ‘Scent Of Honeysuckle’ by Jean Lennox Toddie
3. Leitheatre (Sunnyside) with ‘A Private Affair’ by Charles Emery
Saturday 16 February
1. Livingston Players with ‘The Donahue Sisters’ by Geraldine Aron
2. St Serfs (Bangholm) with ‘You Really Got Me’ by Neil Robertson
Tickets are priced £8 per evening, or a season tickets for all three nights is £21. Season ticket holders are eligible to vote for their favourite performance in the Best of the Fest Audience Award
Three winning teams will be selected to go forward to the SCDA East Division finals, which will take place in Larbert next month.
For further information and ticket availability visit www.scdaedinburgh.org.uk
Let’s be frank – panto’s on it’s way to Goldenacre!
Seems to be lots of local luvvie stuff happening over the coming weeks, a veritable theatrical feast! To ‘Curtain Up On Murder’ in Blackhall and ‘Quangle Wangle’ in Muirhouse we can now add – shock, horror! – Frankenstein the Panto at Goldenacre!
The acclaimed St Serf’s Players will be performing David Swan’s comedy from 28 November – 1 December (see flyer for details).
We’re certainly spoilt for choice for theatre in North Edinburgh this winter season!
Quangle Wangle brings Christmas magic to North Edinburgh Arts
Licketyspit and North Edinburgh Arts will be presenting Licketyspit’s acclaimed Christmas production
The Christmas Quangle Wangle
at North Edinburgh Arts
from Thursday 6 – Saturday 15 December
The Christmas Quangle Wangle is a hilarious, musical adventure for families, friends, schools and nurseries, inspired by the poems and stories of Edward Lear. It is presented at North Edinburgh Arts by its newly appointed Theatre Company in Residence, Licketyspit. The production is written by Virginia Radcliffe and developed in collaboration with Johnny Austin.
“On top of the Crumpetty Tree, the Quangle Wangle sat………”
Stella and Stan are waiting for Christmas. They find a mysterious parcel which leads them to the Quangle Wangle, sad and alone in his Crumpetty Tree. But the arrival of an array of colourful characters changes his and their lives forever.
Join Stella and Stan on their adventure and spend this Christmas at North Edinburgh Arts on the Quangle Wangle’s Hat with the Orient Calf from the Land of Tute, the Dong With the Luminous Nose and the Jumblies as they sail to sea in a sieve! Children will delight in this nonsensical world of make-believe and storytelling, limericks and madcap songs. The Christmas Quangle Wangle is the perfect festive introduction to theatre for younger audiences, from ages three upwards and their grown-ups.
Stella and Stan are played by Scott Fletcher and Ashley Smith, rising young performers in Scottish theatre. Scott is best known for his role as Charlie Smith in Gary: Tank Commander and his many theatre roles include performances in Black Watch for National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Lyceum’s production of Peter Pan.
Ashley has worked extensively in Scottish theatre since graduating from RSAMD and appearances include Sex and God, Magnetic North; Magic Spaghetti for Licketyspit; 27 for National Theatre of Scotland and Hansel and Gretel with Catherine Wheels.
These performances celebrate the development of a new partnership for North Edinburgh Arts and Licketyspit. North Edinburgh Arts is establishing Licketyspit Theatre Company as Theatre in Residence, supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, to specifically engage and to further develop an Early Years and families audience. North Edinburgh Arts received £50,000 from Creative Scotland’s Public Engagement programme to establish Licketyspit Theatre Company as Theatre in Residence.
Laura Mackenzie-Stuart, Portfolio Manager for Theatre at Creative Scotland, said; ‘We are delighted to have invested in The Christmas Quangle Wangle. We hope the magical experience of going to the theatre will spark a lifelong passion for theatre in younger audiences and their grown-ups.’
North Edinburgh Arts and Licketyspit are excited to be presenting The Christmas Quangle Wangle during 2012, the bicentenary of the birth of Edward Lear.
Crumpetty Tea and Orient Calf Noodles will be available in the North Edinburgh Arts Café where children can make Quangle and Jumblie pop-ups and draw Quangle Wangle’s Hat for a North Edinburgh Arts and Licketyspit exhibition.
The Christmas Quangle Wangle is written by Virginia Radcliffe, around Edward Lear’s poems, and developed in collaboration with Johnny Austin. The production is directed by Johnny Austin; design is developed from the original Catherine Lindow design by Ali Maclaurin; music is by Tim Brinkhurst & Virginia Radcliffe.
“Quangle Wangle…captures its audience’s fiery imagination… a pyrotechnic telling of Lear’s poems” – The Stage, 2004 production
LISTINGS:
Licketyspit and North Edinburgh Arts present
The Christmas Quangle Wangle
North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh EH4 4TZ
Thursday 6 – Saturday 15 December 2012
Monday – Friday: 10am and 1pm; Saturdays: 10.30am & 1.30pm
Tickets: Forth Ward Residents £2, all other tickets £6.
Box office: 0131 315 2151
Quangle Wangle was first produced by Virginia Radcliffe for the Wee Stories Early Years Project in 2003 and again for Licketyspit for Christmas at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre in 2004 directed by Matthew Zajac. It was also produced for Derby Live for Christmas 2009 with a new design by Ali Maclaurin. It was first created in collaboration with Johnny Austin and designed by Catherine Lindow with original Music by Tim Brinkhurst.
Murder in Blackhall!
Blackhall St Columba’s Parish Church is the place to be for murder mystery fans this month when the St Columba’s Dramatic Society performs ‘Curtain Up On Murder’ from 21 – 23 November.
Tickets are now on sale for the comedy murder mystery, which is set in a theatre at the end of a pier.
Performances are on Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 November at 7.30pm, doors open at 7pm.
Tickets, which cost £6, are available from the Church Office, cast and Drama group members and also on the internet from their website www.scds.co.uk
Young filmmakers SEE for themselves
Short films produced by local schoolchildren through the Cashback for Creativity initiative were premiered at North Edinburgh Arts Centre last night, and both ‘Danny’ and ‘The Clock Strikes Fate’ were real quality productions.
Participants from Broughton High School, CORE, Pilton Youth and Children’s Project and Muirhouse Youth Development Group worked with professionals from Pilton-based Screen Education Edinburgh to produce the two short films, with the young people were involved at every stage of the process – from script writing and finding locations to acting, selecting soundtracks and editing. The young filmmakers discovered that an awful lot of preparation and hard work goes into creating even a short film, but their efforts were richly rewarded with two fine short films.
Introducing the films, SEE project manager James McKenzie said: “I think you will agree that these films are remarkable, given that most of the young people involved had no experience of filmmaking. I am sure they will be very proud when they see what they have produced – these are excellent films”.
Danny dealt with the issue of schizophrenia in an unusually entertaining way, while ‘The Clock Strikes Fate’ was a silent movie, simple yet touching.
In a question and answer session with SEE engagement officer Neil Rolland after the screenings, the filmmakers were unanimous in saying that they had learned a lot from the process and all expressed a wish to go on to make more movies.
Kyle Fitzpatrick said: “I thought to begin with I would only be acting but we all got involved in lots of different aspects, things we hadn’t thought we would be doing – for me it was using film cameras, for example. It was a great experience and we learned a lot over the course of producing the films. This was the first time we’d seen the finished films and I think they look pretty good!”
The films will now be entered into film festivals and will appear on SEE’s website – www.screen-ed.org – sometime soon. The young filmmakers will also get their wish for more opportunities to male movies – Screen Education Edinburgh plan to set up a North Edinburgh Young People’s Film Group in the not too distant future. So you never know, Danny Two – the full length sequel?