Drama Promoters News

Scottish Opera presents Handel’s Rodelinda

8th October 2013 Time: 19:30:00 Location: Wick High School Length: 2 hrs 20 mins approximately Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ Director Chris Rolls and designer Oliver Townsend use their extensive theatrical expertise to capture the drama, and the elegance, of one of Handel's most successful operas.  Against a backdrop of faded Baroque grandeur, a cast of very contemporary characters tells a compelling tale of tyranny, love and the corrupting nature of power.  

Lung Ha's Theatre Company & Stellar Quines Theatre Company in "13 Sunken Years"

Friday 4th October Time: 20:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 1 hour plus an optional discussion Interval: yes Age suitability : 14+ Stellar Quines Rehearsal Rooms are spaces where new scripts and new writers are presented to a live audience for the first time.  For this Rehearsal Room, Stellar Quines has partnered with Lung Ha's Theatre Company to present 13 Sunken Years by Finnish writer Paula Salminen, translated by Eva Buchwald.  

Aladdin - Thurso Auditions

If you are keen to get on stage then now is your chance.   Anyone high school age or above and come along to audition for part in this years production of Aladdin..  

Six Simultaneous Exhibitions of Painting, Craft & Photography

Lyth Arts Centre Open 12 - 5 pm daily 1st July - 31st August 2013 Adults: £3 OAPs: £2 Children, Students, Unwaged: £1 Alistair Cook This project "McArthur's Store" was created by photographer, architect and artist Alistair Cook, who spent the summer of 2012 in a building on the quay at Dunbar used by fishermen while mending their creels.  He used wet plate collodion photography, a process concocted by Englishman Fred Scott Archer in 1851 to produce portraits of Dunbar men and their families.  

Wingin It At Lyth

21st July 2013 Folk – Wingin’ It Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre, Summer Evening Foyer Concert Length: 2 hours Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ Folk – Wingin’ ItFolk – Wingin’ It Wingin' It are an award winning guitar duo from Scotland.  Adam Bulley and Chas Mackenzie formed the duo in 2005, having met playing in other projects in and around Argyll.  

Gramophones Theatre Company in 'End to End'

This is the second show which some of the Highland promoters admired in last year's Fringe and invited to tour our venues.  It's a delightful and imaginative entertainment performed by three wacky young ladies who hitched from Land's End to John O' Groats and then turned their experience into a play.  

Skraelings Theatre Company in "The Sea Between Us"

Lyth Arts Centre 2n June 2013 Time: 15:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 60 mins Age suitability : 14+ Talented young Thurso stage director Iain Macdonald brings us an interesting two-hander which explores a familiar dilemma - the father who wants to maintain an established rural life-style and the son who wants to leave and embrace the urban future.  However this is a new play by Sólveig Jónsdóttir, set in her native Iceland.  

The History of the Jazz Violin - illustrated talk by Chris Garrick

Lyth Arts Centre Time: 17:30:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 1 hour Interval: no Age suitability : 11+ The History of the Jazz Violin - illustrated talk by Chris Garrick The first name that comes to mind when we think about the jazz violin is Stephane Grappelli but he is just one of a line of innovators who form part of an evolving tradition that starts in Europe, moves to America and then ricochets back and forth across the Atlantic bringing the potential of this great orchestral and chamber instrument into the cadre of the jazz band.   Chris has a unique collection of recordings and introduces and plays excerpts which trace the path of this development ending with a memorable moment when the great Yehudi Menuhin, master of the classical violin and Grappelli, master of the jazz violin met and played together.  

Mike Maran in "Platero, Travels With a Donkey"

Lyth Arts Centre Mike Maran in 'Platero, Travels With a Donkey' Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 70 mins Interval: none ge suitability : 11+ Mike Maran always charms us with his ingenious stage adaptations on diverse themes - last here in 2011 with "Italia ‘n' Caledonia" and now back with an evening of Spanish stories by Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramon Jimenez.  He always finds talented collaborators to work with, on this occasion brilliant puppeteer and stage designer Nino Namitcheishvili and director Levan Tsuladze, both from Tbilisi, Georgia and flamenco guitarist Craig Ogden playing music composed by Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, commissioned by Segovia..  

An Evening with Dementia

Lyth Arts Centre Drama - Westgarth Productions in "An Evening with Dementia" Sun 14th Apr.  8pm Along with other Highland promoters, we saw this play at last year's Fringe and invited the company to undertake a Highland tour.