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What’s On
Eden Court
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2019
EDEN COURT BROCHURE SUPPORTED BY:
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WHAT’S ON
APRIL - SEPTEMBER 2019
WELCOME
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ON STAGE
4 APRIL
22 MAY
40 JUNE
56 JULY
64 AUGUST
76 SEPTEMBER
AROUND EDEN COURT
21 EATING AND DRINKING
92 LIVE CINEMA
94 ENGAGEMENT + CLASSES
96 GALLERY
98 LOCAL + SHOWCASE
INFORMATION
91 ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES
112 TICKETS + INFO
114 CALENDAR
WWW.EDEN-COURT.CO.UK
COMING SOON
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“Spring is nature’s way for Scottish Opera’s The Magic Flute and
National Theatre of Scotland’s The Cheviot,
of saying ‘Let’s Party!’” the Stag and the Black Black Oil. These
productions will likely sell out and rightly so.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Throughout the summer we have curated
I hope Eden Court provides lots of a programme that we hope will have wide
opportunities over the spring and summer for appeal. For family audiences you can pick
you to experience some form of party and so from Dinosaur World Live, Zog or Tom
this quote from the late-great Robin Williams Gates Live. Some highlights for grown-up
feels fitting. With so much uncertainty in the audiences include: Stephen Tomkinson in
THANK YOU world, my hope is that the work on our stages the Olivier award-winning Educating Rita
TO ALL OUR and screens, and in our galleries, classes and and the celeb-packed foot-stomping 80s
PATRONS FOR projects gives you an excuse to come together musical Club Tropicana. I caught the show
and more often than not raises a smile. As we in London recently and it’s going to be the
THEIR GENEROUS planned our spring and summer season, this perfect summer night out. We’re also very
SUPPORT: ambition was at the forefront of our minds. pleased to have secured a visit from Magdalena
Schamberger’s Curious Shoes, a really unique
The Banister Family Our last brochure introduced a bold new performance event for people living with
look for Eden Court. Thank you for all your dementia, and their loved ones.
Cathryn Lady Cawdor
feedback, lots of which has been fed through
Gregor Barclay to this second edition of our new look. I’m Two very special outdoor experiences return
& Helen Cunningham also delighted, and relieved, that we now have this summer. In Inverness, at Eden Court, in
Moira Harris & Steve Jones a beautiful new website in the same style that partnership with Fèis Rois, our outdoor bar
radically improves your online experience. It and music tent, Under Canvas will be back
Finlay & Margot Kerr is now much simpler to book online and to between June and August. Check the website
Philip & Emma Mackenzie find out more about life at Eden Court. If you closer to the time for exact dates. We’re also
Sarah & JP Macpherson GENRES ACCESS haven’t had a look yet, please do. excited to be presenting the wonderful Nicole
and Martin, inside their beautiful big tents on
Alan & Annie Nelson Our brochure is organised by A full list of our accessible As the days grow longer it’s been exciting to the lawn at the MacDonald Resort in Aviemore.
month, with highlighted performances can be found look ahead towards the spring and summer This wonderful company from Switzerland
Katie & Roy Nelson
productions at the beginning of at the back of the brochure. at Eden Court. present fantastic shows for all the family.
Catriona & Donald each month followed by each If you have any questions
Robertson In April we’re delighted that the wonderful In September do join us for Amélie described
show in chronological order. about a particular show,
family musical Madagascar lands at Eden by the Los Angeles Times as “an enchanting
Sara & Jonny Shaw please contact our Box Office.
You’ll find shows of all genres Court as part of its record-breaking UK tour. A act of theatrical reinvention” and for Red Dust
Throughout the brochure we
Chris & Gill Silver in each month, and they will be star-studded cast will offer up a thrilling night Road from National Theatre of Scotland.
use the following key:
marked at the bottom of each at The Lady Vanishes and I’m utterly thrilled
Tony Smith
entry. The genres are: Captioned the West End and Broadway smash-hit Let It All this weaved with many nights of wonderful
Robin & Sara Stewart Be finally arrives in Inverness. This wonderful music, comedy, theatre, dance and local talent
James & Nicola Vestey DANCE DRAMA Touch Tour show is a non-stop parade of Beatles’ hits and and of course, our very special visit from Sir Ian
has wowed critics and audiences around the McKellen in July. This show is sold out, with
Bill Walker CLASSICAL COMEDY Audio Described world. Don’t miss it. a long waiting list but you can find out more
Anne & Graham Watson CREATIVE Non Verbal about it on our website.
In May, Morna Young’s Lost at Sea promises
And our Patrons who to be a visceral treat dedicated to the fishing We look forward to welcoming you to our
LOCAL+SHOWCASE BSL Interpreted
choose to remain communities of Scotland. Please book early shows: inside our buildings, outside our
anonymous
MUSIC MUSICAL Relaxed Performance buildings and across the Highlands.
OPERA FAMILY Autism Friendly Thank you for your continued support.
To find out how you FESTIVE FILM Dementia Friendly
can help Eden Court as
a Patron, please contact TALK SPECIAL EVENT
our Fundraising and James Mackenzie-Blackman 3
Philanthropy Department: Chief Executive, on behalf of the team at Eden Court
01463 732 678 jmackenzieblackman@eden-court.co.uk
support@eden-court.co.uk jamesmackblack
Photo by: Danilo Moroni
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Our beautiful chimneys are the key feature
of our eco-friendly ventilation system that
requires no electricity to keep the air flowing
in the Empire and OneTouch Theatres.
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Image: Eden Court’s fly system.
Photo by: Mike Webster
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“Outstanding.
Let It Be By far the best
Mon 29 Apr – Sat 4 May
Come Together and experience the
Beatles show yet!”
iconic music of The Beatles with LET IT BE,
the spectacular new concert jam-packed
THE NEW YORK TIMES
with over 40 of The Beatles’ greatest hits!
Direct from the West End, this international
hit show celebrates the legacy of the
world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band.
Relive The Beatles’ meteoric rise from
their humble beginnings to the heights
of Beatlemania with live performances of
early tracks including Twist and Shout and
She Loves You as well as global mega-hits
Yesterday, Hey Jude, Come Together and,
of course, Let It Be. Plus experience the
all-new Let it Be Part 2 – the reunion that
never was, set a decade after the group
went their separate ways, featuring some
of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison’s
best-loved solo material.
Travel back to the magical sixties when
all you needed was love and a little help
from your friends!
“A non-stop
parade of hits.”
BRAND W
NEW SINHGOOVER
DAILY TELEGRAPH
WHERE Empire Theatre
FEATUR EATLES
TIME 19.30 (excl. Fri)
40 B
Fri 17.00 | 20.30
Sat Mat 14.30 HITS
PRICE £12 – £38
6 SUITABILITY All ages 7
MUSIC
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Madagascar HHHHH TIME + LEISURE
The Lady Vanishes
The Musical HHHH WHAT’S ON STAGE Tue 16 – Sat 20
Tue 9 – Sat 13 HHHH THEATRE WEEKLY Inspired by the Hitchcock classic.
Emmy award-winner Juliet Mills (Wild at Heart) and Maxwell WHERE Empire Theatre
Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Caulfield (Dynasty) are joined by Lorna Fitzgerald (Abi in TIME 19.30
Gloria the hip hip Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, EastEnders), Matt Barber (Atticus Aldridge in Downton Abbey), Wed/Thu/Sat Mat 14.30
WHERE Empire Theatre
plotting penguins as they bound onto your stage in the Robert Duncan (Drop The Dead Donkey), Philip Lowrie (Dennis
TIME Thu/Sat morning 11.00 PRICE £14 – £31
musical adventure of a lifetime. Based on the smash Tanner in Coronation Street) and Ben Nealon (Soldier Soldier).
Tue/Thu/Sat Mat 14.30 SUITABILITY All ages
DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar - The When socialite Iris’ travelling companion disappears, she’s
Musical follows all of your favourite crack-a-lackin’ friends Fri Early Eve 17.00 DRAMA
bewildered to find fellow passengers deny ever having seen
as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Tue/Wed Eve 18.00
her. But with the help of musician Max, she turns detective,
Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the PRICE £25 – £39 and together they resolve to solve this perplexing mystery.
madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar. Special Family Offer:
Filled with outlandish characters, adventure galore and £30.00 each
(restrictions apply)
an upbeat score, Madagascar will leave audiences with
no choice but to Move It, Move It! SUITABILITY All ages
“high-energy, absorbing “a first-class
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MUSICAL FAMILY
production that’ll keep
you gripped” thriller” 9
HHHH ESSENTIAL SURREY MAIDENHEAD ADVERTISER
Lost Voice Guy
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I’m Only in it for
the Parking
Tue 2
Following the unprecedented success of
his appearance on the final of Britain’s Got
Talent 2018, BBC New Comedy Award winner
and star and writer of BBC Radio 4’s comedy
series, Ability, Lee Ridley (aka Lost Voice Guy)
comes to Eden Court.
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 19.30
PRICE £14 – £16
Remembering
SUITABILITY 14+
“Laugh-out- COMEDY
the Movies
loud funny” Aljaž Skorjanec + Orlando
THE INDEPENDENT
Janette Manrara Fri 5
Thu 4 Orlando: Who is she? Who is he? Who are we?
Mairearad Green
Find out in the life-affirming, comedic tale of
Strictly Come Dancing’s favourite couple, an immortal poet, whose gender cannot be
Aljaž and Janette, celebrate the history of the pinned down, whose spirit cannot be caged and
+ Anna Massie movies. Enjoy tributes to Audrey Hepburn,
Saturday Night Fever, Gene Kelly, The Greatest
whose irreverent, romantic adventures across
British history provide a magic-realist exploration
Thu 4 Showman, Marilyn Monroe, La La Land, James of human identity. Based on the satirical 1928
Bond, Cabaret and more. novel by Virginia Woolf.
We welcome back two of Scotland’s most If you loved Remembering Fred, you’ll love
revered multi-instrumentalists, Mairearad Green Remembering the Movies!
(Poozies, King Creosote) on accordion and
bagpipes and Anna Massie (Blazin’ Fiddles,
Love Aljaž? Check out Here Come the Boys “A towering
performance”
(page 51)
RANT) on guitar, banjo and fiddle. Join us for
another captivating high energy performance
from these sublime musicians.
Meet + Greet
HHHHH THE SCOTSMAN
Best Seats | VIP Laminate
Signed Programme
Thursday 4 18.00 | £100 WHERE OneTouch Theatre
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
“…the camaraderie and sheer TIME 20.00
TIME 20.00
fun of musical collaboration is PRICE £8 – £15
PRICE £10 – £14 WHERE Empire Theatre
plainly evident and infectious ” SUITABILITY All ages
SUITABILITY All ages
TIME 19.30
10 SONGLINES MUSIC
DRAMA 11
PRICE £28.50 – £42.50
SUITABILITY All ages
DANCE
Bootleg Hello Again
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Beach Boys The Story of Neil
Fri 5 Diamond
From surf themed anthems such as Sat 6
Surfin’ Safari and Surfer Girl to muscle car
Evocative visuals and narration enhance the
memorables like Shut Down and Fun Fun
magic as the show takes you on a musical
Fun, the The Bootleg Beach Boys evoke the
journey through Neil Diamond’s glittering 50-
spirit and essence of the pursuit of the 1960’s
year career. From The Bang Years to the present
American dream. You’ll be sure to be feeling
day you’ll soon be singing along to all the Neil
those Good Vibrations with classics hits such
Diamond’s hits including, Sweet Caroline,
as, In My Room, God Only Knows, Help Me
Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans, Song WHERE Empire Theatre
Rhonda and much more.
Sung Blue, Hello Again, Love on the Rocks,
TIME 19.30
America and many more.
PRICE £24 – £26
SUITABILITY All ages
WHERE Empire Theatre MUSIC
TIME 19.30
PRICE £18 – £22.50
SUITABILITY All ages
MUSIC
Paper Memories
Sat 6
Through aerial-dance, puppetry and music,
we are brought into the bright and colourful
memories of Tali, a refugee girl arriving in
Scotland with her family.
Tali is told to forget but she finds her memories
crumpling and ripping before her eyes, until her
family realises that the only way to keep them
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together, is to remember. Captivating music
and stunning visuals bring to life memories of
wedding parties, chasing chickens and dancing.
Celebrating 50 Years
of Led Zeppelin
“It is an ingenious gem aimed at wee ones WHERE OneTouch Theatre
Sun 7
TIME 15.00
but a joy for anyone whose inner child still
PRICE £6 – £7 Featuring all the classic Led Zeppelin songs such as, Whole
lurks near the surface“ SUITABILITY 7+ Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll, Black Dog,
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 20.00
as well as Led Zeppelin live rarities such as When the Levee
12
HHHHH EDINBURGH GUIDE CHILDREN’S
Breaks, Ramble On, Wanton Song and more! This Led Zeppelin
PRICE £14 – £17.50 13
tribute show takes inspiration from the studio recordings, as SUITABILITY All ages
well as official and unofficial, live recordings to bring you the MUSIC
very best of Led Zeppelin.
Billy Bremner + Me Conrad Anker
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Sat 13 Hold Fast – Yosemite
Written and performed by Phil Differ to Everest to Meru
A schoolboy’s dream. To be a professional
footballer, to represent his country and to Sun 14
usurp the crown of his school’s greatest hero:
One of the greatest mountaineers of our
Leeds United and Scotland footballer Billy
time, Conrad Anker is perhaps best known for
Bremner. The schoolboy was comedian Phil
locating Mallory’s body on Everest. In this brand
Differ and only one thing stood in his way, Phil
new show, 20 years on from finding Mallory, the
himself! Discover the fruits of Phil’s failure in
leader of The North Face climbing team talks
this autobiographical one-man show.
all things mountaineering, including the 1924
Mallory and Irvine Everest expedition.
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 19.30
WHERE Empire Theatre
PRICE £10 – £13
TIME 19.30
SUITABILITY 14+
PRICE £20
DRAMA SUITABILITY 12+
TALK
Folklore
Noir
Sun 14
Celebrating 20 years of their The Adventures
of Isabel
critically acclaimed musical
partnership, Fraser Fifield and
Graeme Stephen blend a
worldwide range of musical Sat 20
influences through a perfectly
natural Scottish cultural filter. Follow the exciting escapades of the frightfully
Guitarist Graeme Stephen fearless Isabel as she embarks on an epic
provides the perfect foil for adventure, encountering four fearsome foes
Fifield’s pipes, saxophone, along the way. This interactive and immersive
whistle, kaval, cajon, performance is an adventure like no other, a
electronics and compositions.
“The utter glee on captivating and innovative dance experience
Together they make a truly the children's faces for the whole family, not to be missed.
original sound, rooted in the was priceless”
Scottish folk tradition but
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
exploratory by nature.
HHHH WHERE OneTouch Theatre
THE SCOTSMAN
TIME 13.30 Workshop | 15.30 Performance
TIME 20.00
PRICE £6 – £12
14 PRICE £10 – £14 15
SUITABILITY 3+
SUITABILITY All ages
FAMILY
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Eddi Reader
Plus Special Guests
Sun 21
From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi
brings to life all forms of song with a sublime
depth and quality of emotional performance.
Join Eddi and her special guests for an
unforgettable evening of music and song.
The Revolvers
WHERE Empire Theatre Tue 23
TIME 19.30
Do you love the sounds of the 60s? WHERE Empire Theatre
PRICE £25
The Revolvers have delighted audiences for over a decade TIME 19.30
SUITABILITY 12+ with their incredible talent and unmatched authenticity. Playing PRICE £19.50
MUSIC all the big hits of the 60s with meticulous attention to detail - SUITABILITY All ages
step back in time with The Revolvers!
MUSIC
Teuchter’s
Comedy Club
Mon 22
Celebrating two naughty years of absolute
mayhem and mischief, the Teuchter’s Comedy
Club are bringing their own crazy and outrageous
brand of pure Highland bred comedy to their
grand debut show at Eden Court!
Showcasing the finest Highland based
comedians known to the...em...Highlands, this
Heroes
ragtag mob of mirth inducing renegades are Tue 23
surreal and real, energetic and dry, nonsensical
and political, musical and cheeky, honest and Heroes mixes aerial skills with dance theatre and contemporary WHERE OneTouch Theatre
bats**t crazy...and oh so very VERY funny! It circus. Asking profound universal questions with humour, it TIME 20.00
will hit every inch of your funny bones. questions the cult of celebrity and the fall from grace, the
PRICE £10 – £14
hidden heroes and superheroes.
SUITABILITY 7+
Building on the success of their last piece Sprawl, Tony Mills of
WHERE OneTouch Theatre Room 2 Manoeuvre and Jennifer Paterson of All or Nothing form DANCE
TIME 20.00 a creative partnership again adding performer Beverley Grant
into the mix.
16 PRICE £10 17
SUITABILITY 14+
COMEDYThe Tailor of BBC Scottish
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Inverness Symphony
DOGSTAR THEATRE
Wed 24 – Fri 26
Orchestra
Fri 26
Matthew Zajac’s phenomenal international
hit about his Polish father returns. This The Soviet authorities called Shostakovich’s
stunning show has been seen by over 26,000 Tenth Symphony an “optimistic tragedy”. A
people in 10 countries. With a stunning violin massive, defiant act of self-assertion in the face
accompaniment, Matthew Zajac tells an of official tyranny, it’s a monumental climax
unforgettable and moving story of survival to a concert that begins with Stravinsky’s
in war-torn Europe. Symphonies of wind instruments. This concert
also sees Colin Currie, one of Scotland’s
Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First, the Pre-Performance Talk
(and the world’s) finest percussionists in a
2008 Stage Best Solo Performer Award at Friday 26 at 18.45
performance of Kurt Schwertsik’s charming
the Edinburgh Fringe and the 2009 Best Actor
marimba concerto.
Award from the Scottish Critics. If you haven’t
yet seen The Tailor of Inverness or simply Martyn Brabbins, Conductor WHERE Empire Theatre
want to see it again, now’s your chance! TIME 19.30
Stravinsky
PRICE £10 – £25
WHERE OneTouch Theatre Symphonies of wind instruments (c.9’)
SUITABILITY All ages
“An ardent, deeply TIME 19.30 Schwertsik
CLASSICAL
personal play…compelling, PRICE £15 Now you hear me, now you don’t (c.15’)
impassioned…a fine actor” SUITABILITY All ages Shostakovich
Symphony No.10 (c.53’)
THE NEW YORK TIMES DRAMA
“McAllister’s
script twists
Rumours of
elegantly”
Fleetwood Mac
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THE LIST
Thu 25
The Bench
The world’s finest tribute to Fleetwood Mac,
returns with a brand new show celebrating
50 years of the very best of Fleetwood Mac,
including a very special blues set paying tribute GILDED BALLOON
to Fleetwood Mac’s legendary Peter Green era.
Mon 29
Personally endorsed by Fleetwood Mac founding
member, Mick Fleetwood, this is the ultimate Joe is in crisis, his life a swirling scribble of obligations he feels WHERE OneTouch Theatre
tribute to one of rock and roll’s most WHERE Empire Theatre he’s failing to fulfil. For five minutes a day he finds a little peace TIME 20.00
remarkable groups. TIME 20.00 alone on The Bench. Sandy is mourning the loss of his Maggie.
PRICE £10 – £12
The Bench is his memorial to her memory. As both attempt to
18 PRICE £25.50 SUITABILITY 14+ 19
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dictate the purpose of The Bench, so begins an epic conflict.
SUITABILITY All ages
A conflict that will change them both. DRAMA COMEDY
MUSIC A comedy about safe spaces and the people that fill them...
Waiting for Godot meets Still Game.Ivo Graham:
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Motion Sickness
Tue 30
Join Comedian Ivo Graham for his brand new
stand-up show, Motion Sickness (named after
his fourth favourite Hot Chip song!)
As seen/heard on Live at The Apollo, Mock
The Week, Live from The BBC, Jon Richardson’s
Ultimate Worrier, Fighting Talk, The Now Show
and more.
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 19.30
PRICE £13
SUITABILITY 14+
COMEDY
“Endlessly amusing hour from
the politest man in comedy”
HHHH THE I
20 For more information and to book online visit our new website
eden-court.co.ukMAY
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DID YOU KNOW
The big follow-spot above the auditorium
in the Empire Theatre is called a Super
Trouper, the make of light made famous
by the ABBA song
M AY
Image: The wood clad ceilings of the original Eden Court Thetre built in 1976.
Photo by: Mike Webster
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performance
we’ve seen in a
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very long time.
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You’ll be crazy
to miss it.”
CARDIFF TIMES
Lost at Sea The Verdict
PERTH THEATRE AT HORSECROSS ARTS AND MORNA YOUNG MIDDLE GROUND THEATRE COMPANY
Adapted by
Thu 16 – Sat 18 Tue 7 –Sat 11 Margaret May Hobbs
By Morna Young | Directed by Ian Brown Frank Galvin is a washed up veteran lawyer and an alcoholic. Designed + directed by
He is presented with one last chance to redeem himself when Michael Lunney
A storm is brewing in a small fishing village. A young woman
returns home, searching for answers about her father’s death. he is given an open-and-shut medical malpractice case that no
one thinks he can win. Smelling a cover up, he courageously STARRING
But as she begins to weave together the strands of her past, a
refuses an out of court settlement and instead takes the case IAN KELSEY
mysterious force unravels family secrets. Featuring the voices
and the entire legal system to court. DENIS LILL
of fishermen and their families in their own words - with music,
PAUL OPACIC
songs and Scots language - it is the lyrical and powerfully A stunning courtroom thriller made famous by the five times
CHRISTOPHER ETTRIDGE
evocative story of a North-East fishing family. OSCAR nominated Sidney Lumet film with Paul Newman and
RICHARD WALSH
Inspired by the loss of playwright Morna Young’s fisherman James Mason.
and KAREN DRURY
father, Lost at Sea is a personal tribute to the fishing Ian Kelsey is known by millions for his regular roles in Blue
communities of Scotland. Murder, Emmerdale, Casualty, Down To Earth, Where The
Heart Is, Doctors and Coronation Street. He is joined by
WHERE Empire Theatre
veteran star Denis Lill (Only Fools & Horses/The Royal), Paul
WHERE Empire Theatre TIME 20.00
Opacic (Bad Girls/Emmerdale/ Hollyoaks), Christopher Ettridge
24 TIME 19.30 | Sat Mat 14.00 (Goodnight Sweetheart), Richard Walsh (London’s Burning) Thu/Sat Mat 14.30 25
PRICE £12 – £23 and Karen Drury (Brookside) in a full cast of fifteen. PRICE £10 – £28
SUITABILITY 12+ SUITABILITY All ages
DRAMA DRAMAHHHHH THE GUARDIAN
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Photo by: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
“A riot from start to finish,
finely crafted, vividly
characterised and teeming
with telling detail - and most
importantly, a real hoot.”
THE SCOTSMAN
The Cheviot, the Stag
The Magic Flute and the Black Black Oil
Audio Described,
Captioned and Autism
Unwrapped Performance Friendly Performance
SCOTTISH OPERA NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Fri 24 18.00 £5 Sun 19 16.00
Tue 21 + Thu 23 + Sat 25 Pre-Performance Talk
DUNDEE REP THEATRE AND LIVE THEATRE, NEWCASTLE
Touch Tour
Sir Thomas Allen returns to Scottish Opera to revive his
Sat 25 18.00 Sun 19 + Mon 20 Sun 19 15.00
Touch Tour BSL and Autism Friendly
five-star production of Mozart’s most inventive opera. Set in
Sat 25 18.00 Based on the original production by Dundee Rep Theatre Performance
a spectacular world inspired by the Victorian futurism of HG
Audio Described Written by John McGrath Mon 20 19.00
Wells and Jules Verne, this enthralling Magic Flute perfectly
Performance Directed by Joe Douglas
balances the opera’s beguiling mix of comedy, fantasy and
pantomime with a profound story of the search for wisdom, Sat 25 19.15 A ceilidh through Scotland’s past - and present.
love and truth. This legendary piece of Scottish theatre tells the story of
The international cast includes Peter Gijsbertsen (La traviata the exploitation of Scottish lands, waters and people over
2017); Gemma Summerfield, First Prize winner at the 2015 the centuries.
WHERE Empire Theatre WHERE OneTouch Theatre
Kathleen Ferrier Awards; name-to-watch Julia Sitkovetsky; and From the highland clearances to the oil boom, this is the
Richard Burkhard, who returns as Papageno, the laugh-out- TIME 19.15 universal tale of how the greed of a few blights the lives of TIME Sun 16.00 | Mon 19.00
loud role he created in 2012. Scottish Opera favourite Tobias PRICE £10 – £58 many. Add a generous dose of Scottish rebellion and irreverence. PRICE £10 – £18
26 Ringborg (The Marriage of Figaro 2016) conducts. SUITABILITY All ages Throw in some live music and a riotous ceilidh - you’ve got SUITABILITY 14+ 27
Sung in English yourself a rollicking great night out.
OPERA DRAMA
Come and experience the ‘Story that has a beginning,
a middle but, as yet, no end…’Mary Ann
Kennedy
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Wed 1
Brought up in Glasgow, Mary Ann Kennedy,
widely known for her outstanding collaborations
and broadcasting career performs songs from
her new album Glaschu and is joined on stage
by singers from Fèisean nan Gàidheal.
A celebration of songs, spirit, feelings and
laughter, it tells the story of growing up as an
urban Gael and revels in the wit and vivid song-
writing of some of the great Glaswegian Gaels.
“This is one from the
heart… which finely
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 20.00
expresses her commitment
PRICE £12 – £14 to Gaelic song as an
SUITABILITY All ages ongoing culture”
MUSIC JIM GILCHRIST, THE SCOTSMAN
Age is Just a
Unspotted Snow Number
MULL THEATRE
Sun 5
The Life + Times of
Fergie Macdonald
By Peter Arnott
GARY INNES
A light-hearted theatrical romp featuring
starvation, scurvy, cannibalism… and some Sun 5
jolly tunes.
The legendary Highland accordionist and
Based on the ill-fated 1845 Sir John Franklin
bandleader, Fergie MacDonald turned 80 in
expedition to discover the North-West
2017 and the party is still continuing!
passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and its
extraordinary 170-year legacy. Set partly on the This celebratory show features the life and
barren ice floes of the Arctic and partly in the times of Fergie in conversation and reminiscing
stultifying drawing room of Lady Jane Franklin, of his life with BBC Radio Scotland Take the
Unspotted Snow is a “ripping yarn” - a bold Floor presenter and musician Gary Innes, before
Legend
and adventurous tale of tragedy, mishap, folly, being joined by an all-star line-up for a party in
arrogance, madness and betrayal, Victorian the Highland capital like no other. Alongside
heroism ... and ruthless news management. Fergie and Gary will be Allan Henderson, Com
A Tribute to Bob Marley O’Rua, Hugh MacCallum, Addie Harper Alasdair
Macleod and more…
Sat 4 WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 20.00
WHERE Empire Theatre
Legend are an immensely talented seven-piece band dedicated WHERE OneTouch Theatre PRICE £9 – £15
to the life and music of the late great Bob Marley. Led by the TIME 20.00
TIME 20.00 SUITABILITY 12+
charismatic Michael Anton Phillips, Legend’s two hour show PRICE £12 – £20
28 PRICE £23– £25 29
covers the very best of Bob Marley’s timeless classics including, DRAMA SUITABILITY All ages
Is This Love, No Woman No Cry, Waiting in Vain, Exodus, I Shot SUITABILITY All ages
MUSIC
The Sheriff, Jamming, Could You Be Loved and many more. MUSICThe Little
Tom Stade: I Swear To... Unsaid
MAY
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LAUGHING DOG MUSIC
BLUE JEANS MANAGEMENT
Tue 7 Fri 10
With a genre-spanning
Join Tom as he attempts to figure out exactly when he, and all
approach to song-writing
his stuff, become vintage! Armed with his usual swagger and
that embraces elements of
playful sense of mischief, Tom explores a host of generational
electronica, folk, jazz and
conundrums and more. Tom’s TV appearances include,
alt-rock, the band continue
Ch4’s Comedy Gala, BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy
their album launch tour in
Roadshow, The John Bishop Show and Live at the Apollo
2019 after sell-out shows and
(twice, bitches!)
a packed performance at
Glastonbury Festival.
WHERE OneTouch Theatre A chance to see one of the
TIME 19.30
PRICE £17.50
must-see rising live acts of
2019.
“Extraordinary music.
SUITABILITY 16+
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
This is an amazing act”
COMEDY
TIME 19.30 BOB HARRIS, BBC RADIO 2
PRICE £9 – £14
SUITABILITY 14+
MUSIC
André Krengel +
Roland Krause The Cremation
STONEYPORT
Thu 9
of Sam McGee
CHRISTINE HANSON
Two incredible virtuosi guitarists from Germany
combine melodies and grooves from the worlds
Sun 12
of jazz, swing, flamenco, blues, pop & funk and Christine Hanson’s wonderful musical
Latin. With refreshing, boisterous energy and compositions accompanying what is probably
passion André and Roland perform a repertoire poet Robert Service’s best-known piece, The
comprising original compositions and surprising Cremation of Sam McGee. Varying from
adaptations of well-known pieces. traditional jigs, reels and country waltzes to
southern swing and frosty musical soundscapes,
WHERE OneTouch Theatre the music perfectly evoke the bizarre,
TIME 19.30 tragicomic setting of Service’s poem.
PRICE £10 – £14
SUITABILITY All ages
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
MUSIC TIME 19.30
30 PRICE £17 - £19 31
SUITABILITY All ages
MUSICMAY
MAY
Kendal Mountain Festival
A Disappearing Act
SINGLE SHOE PRODUCTIONS UK Tour 2019
KENDAL MOUNTAIN EVENTS LTD
Tue 14 + Wed 15 WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 19.30 Fri 17 WHERE OneTouch Theatre
The great magician, Philip Winterbottom, cordially requests
your presence for his final act. Sadly, he’s dead. So... he won’t PRICE £10 – £14 TIME 19.30
Join us for an evening packed full of amazing films and awe-
be there. But, he’s left his son and his assistant very clear SUITABILITY 12+ inspiring talks from some of the world’s most impressive PRICE £11 – £19
instructions for his memorial. Join Philip’s family and friends for COMEDY adventurers. Enjoy the spirit and inspiration of the Festival and SUITABILITY All ages
one final disappearing act. A comedy about how we want to be celebrate the exploration of some of the wildest places on earth.
SPECIAL EVENT
remembered and what we hope people will forget!
Welcome to The Poozies
Sat 18
New Orleans The ever-adventurous Poozies are back,
SPEAKEASY SCOTLAND showing off their fantastic new line-up and
all-new material – most of which makes up
Thu 16 their hard-hitting new album Punch. (Shortlisted
for Album of the Year in the Scots Trad Music
Two young masters of the early jazz, hokum
Awards 2018). Mary Macmaster (electro-harp,
and prohibition era blues genre transport you
vocals) and Eilidh Shaw (fiddle, vocals) are
to the heat and fun of the southern states. As
joined by Sarah McFadyen (fiddle, banjo, guitar,
authentic a New Orleans experience that you
vocals), and Tia Files (guitar, bass drum, fiddle,
can imagine this side of the pond!
WHERE OneTouch Theatre vocals) in a line-up widely hailed as the group’s
TIME 20.00 Ali Affleck Vocals / Washboard most exciting yet.
PRICE £14 Joplin Parnell Piano
SUITABILITY 14+ Colin Steele Trumpet
MUSIC Roy Percy Double Bass
WHERE OneTouch Theatre “..this is high-tempo,
TIME 20.00
32 festival-headlining stuff” 33
PRICE £14 – £16
SUITABILITY All ages HHHH
MUSIC SONGLINES MAGAZINEThis Girl Laughs,
This Girl Cries,
MAY
MAY
This Girl Does
Nothing
STELLAR QUINES THEATRE COMPANY
Thu 23
What happens when your world is turned
upside down and you have to find your own
Paul Merton’s “Pure hilarity” way? Three triplets abandoned in a forest by
their father decide to go their separate ways -
Impro Chums BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE one full of strength, one full of adventure, the
other choosing to stay right where she is. Over
many years having grown forests, saved villages, WHERE OneTouch Theatre
Sun 19 WHERE Empire Theatre fought Vikings, crossed oceans and built a TIME 13.30
TIME 20.00 home… the sisters, now women, meet back in
Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch, Suki Webster, Mike PRICE £6
PRICE £22 – £24 the forest where it all started. A modern-day
McShane and accompanist Kirsty Newton are back on the road. SUITABILITY 7+
SUITABILITY 14+ fairy-tale full of hope, love and having faith in
The collective improvisational experience embodied in the
yourself and never ever give up. CHILDREN’S
Chums is enough to stun an elephant! COMEDY
Jay Lafferty
Wheesht!
GILDED BALLOON
Tue 21
With a colourful history of never knowing
when to shut up, Jay has managed to get
herself into, and occasionally out of, more
than a few tricky situations. After a lifetime of
being told to pipe down, Jay never expected
the trouble that would come from holding
her tongue.
Lizabett Russo + “This is simply world-
class work, by any
HHHHH THE LIST
Graeme Stephen standard”
TOM ROBINSON, BBC RADIO 6
Fri 24
HHHHH BROADWAY WORLD
Scotland-based Romanian singer-songwriter Lizabett Russo’s
influences are wide ranging. Echoes of her native Romania are
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
“Beautifully observed, WHERE OneTouch Theatre beautifully interwoven with avant-garde folk, contemporary jazz
TIME 20.00 and world music. Lizabett is accompanied by award-winning jazz TIME 20.00
34 delightfully written – Jay guitarist Graeme Stephen. His peerless improvisational skills and PRICE £13 – £15 35
PRICE £9 – £11
Lafferty totally smashed it SUITABILITY 14+
talent for composition make him one of Scotland’s most exciting SUITABILITY All ages
out of the park” and prodigious musical talents.
MUSIC
COMEDY
EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINEMAY
MAY
Phill Jupitus:
Sassy Knack
Mon 27
Join stand-up comedian, poet, improviser and
TV stalwart Phill Jupitus for over an hour of tales
and diversions as he drags laughs out of the
chaos of his own life and the uncertain world
that surrounds it. Adult themes and situations,
but delivered childishly.
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 20.00
An Evening of The North PRICE £17
SUITABILITY 14+
Eric + Ern JOAN CLEVILLÉ DANCE
Sun 26
COMEDY
Sun 26
A young man finds himself lost in the harsh
Scottish Ensemble
From the Olivier nominated duo behind yet delicate wilderness of the North with
the hugely celebrated and critically only himself and two eccentric Northerners
acclaimed west-end hit Eric & Little Ern
Dance Music with Malin Broman (Violin)
for company. Without any memory of who
A brilliant homage crammed full of he is or where he comes from, he searches
renditions of those famous comedy
sketches that hits all the right notes! From
for meaning in an increasingly unpredictable
environment where being lost is the norm
Tue 28
Greig’s Piano concerto to Mr Memory, and letting go the only way to survive.
A joyful sashay through a host of pieces written
“Arsenal!” It’s a show full of Morecambe Please join us for a post show discussion.
with our feet in mind. Alongside Piazzolla’s
and Wise’s most loved routines, songs and
Co-commissioned by Tramway undeniably infectious take on Vivaldi’s Four
sketches and of course a musical guest.
and The Place. Seasons, pulsating with the rhythms of Latin
This wonderful show, evokes memories of
America, comes the breathless tarantella that
times when whole families would huddle
ends Schubert’s Death and The Maiden and
around the telly on Sunday evenings. WHERE OneTouch Theatre
an assortment of other waltzes, marches,
TIME 20.00
serenades and romances. Pre-Performance Talk
PRICE £12 - £16
Malin Broman is an award-winning violinist with Tuesday 28 at 18.45
“I never thought I’d see SUITABILITY All ages a particular passion for chamber music, and a
Morecambe and Wise live – DANCE desire to re-define the concert experience…
Piazzolla
I think I just have!” Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
BEN ELTON WHERE OneTouch Theatre
and extracts from
TIME 19.30
“ridiculously entertaining Schubert
PRICE £5 – £17 String Quartet No. 14 (‘Death and The Maiden’)
WHERE Empire Theatre and chillingly dark” SUITABILITY All ages [arr. Mahler]
TIME 19.30 MARY BRENNAN, THE HERALD
36 CLASSICAL Britten 37
PRICE £21
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
SUITABILITY 12+
Purcell
COMEDY Various dancesThe Dark The Chicago
Carnival: Blues Brothers
MAY
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Unplugged Motown Mission
VANISHING POINT Thu 30
Wed 29 Back with a Brand new mission, The Chicago
Blues Brothers are heading for Detroit to
Who’d have thought, that when we died, take on some of the biggest and most loved
we didn’t die completely? Motown anthems along with all the Blue
Our consciousness goes on a bit. It lingers Brothers classics you know and love. With
on, discreetly. hit’s from Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Sam
With songs, spoken word and a free glass of and Dave, James Brown, The Temptations,
whisky, this is the story of newcomers to the The Four Tops, Jackson 5 and the Supremes.
afterlife. Incredulous at their continuity, they Backed by the multi award winning CBB Band
form their own necropolitan community where and the incredible Sweet Soul Sisters, a new
every night is party night. stage set and state of the art full stage projection
Inspired by Weimar cabaret and danse macabre, – this is one show you can’t afford to miss.
WHERE OneTouch Theatre the songs are somewhere in between Leonard
TIME 20.00 Cohen and The Muppets. Come in, have a drink
PRICE £12 – £16 and join us for an intimate, celebratory and WHERE Empire Theatre
heart-warming night of storytelling and song. TIME 19.30
SUITABILITY All ages
DRAMA | MUSIC
Sponsored by The Famous Grouse PRICE £15 – £25
SUITABILITY All ages
MUSIC
Adam Riches
Fergus “real personality … lucidly The Adam Riches
atmospheric … fire and
Experience
McCreadie virtuosity”
Fri 31
THE TIMES
Thu 30
Unique, off the wall, absurd and downright
Fergus released his first album, Turas, in hilarious live comedy from Edinburgh
2018 to rave reviews, including five stars Comedy Award winner and Time Out
from the Scotsman. He has since won Best Comedy’s Person of the Year, Adam Riches.
Instrumentalist at the Scottish Jazz Awards Adam’s TV appearances include, Detectorists
and was nominated as Best Newcomer in (BBC4), Top Coppers (BBC3), Drunk History
the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. His music is (Comedy Central) The Last Leg (Channel
dynamic and beautifully crafted and his rhythm 4) and 8 Out of 10 Cats does Countdown
team, David Bowden (bass) and Stephen (Channel 4) as Sean Bean.
Henderson (drums) from the award-winning WHERE OneTouch Theatre
quartet Square One, match his verve, skill and
sensitivity with precision and unerring empathy.
TIME 20.00 “Will make you laugh your-
PRICE £10 – £14 WHERE OneTouch Theatre
self silly and what could be TIME 20.00
38 SUITABILITY All ages 39
better than that?” PRICE £13
MUSIC
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SUITABILITY 16+
COMEDYJUNE
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DID YOU KNOW
Famous people who have used the Eden
NE
Image: Sound desk in the Empire Theatre
Court dressing rooms include the Dalai
Lama, Billy Connolly, Gloria Gaynor, Judi
Dench and soon Sir Ian McKellen.
Photo by: Mike Webster
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Under Canvas
EDEN COURT + FÈIS ROIS
Jun – Aug
It’s back!
Last summer thousands of you joined us in
the glorious sunshine for drinks, food, music,
comedy and more at Under Canvas, our
stunning big tent on the lawn. The feedback
was incredible and lots of you asked us to
bring it back again, and we’re delighted to
oblige – we all loved it too!
The riverbank setting, just a 5-minute walk
from the city centre, is perfect for post work
drinks and lazy days in the sun. Plus, we’re
joining forces again with our friends at Feis
Rois, promising you some of the country’s
most exciting new musical talent.
Open daily from 4:30pm until 11pm at the
city’s must-visit summer venue.
WHERE Lawn
TIME Open 16:30 – 23:00
PRICE FREE
SUITABILITY All ages
SPECIAL EVENT
Proudly supported by
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Curious Shoes Dinosaur World Live
MAGDALENA SCHAMBERGER Fri 21 – Sun 23
Tue 18 Direct from the West End, join our intrepid explorer and discover
a pre-historic world of astonishing (and remarkably life-like)
Curious Shoes is a joyful performance for people living with
dinosaurs in Dinosaur World Live! Meet a host of impressive
dementia and their loved ones to share. This funny, entertaining
creatures including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Triceratops,
and beautifully simple work tells the story of four curious
Giraffatitan, Microraptor and Segnosaurus!
characters on a journey from here to there, and comes to life
through live music, movement and very few words. Created by A special meet and greet after the show offers all of our brave
Magdalena Schamberger, a specialist in dementia arts and former explorers the chance to make a new dinosaur friend.
Artistic Director of Hearts and Minds. Don’t miss this entertaining and mind-expanding Jurassic
adventure, live on stage. Book now before tickets become extinct!
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 11.00 | 14.30
“I feel like WHERE Empire Theatre
TIME Fri 16.30
”A spectacular
interactive show!”
PRICE £10 I am shining Sat/Sun 11.00 | 14.00
44 SUITABILITY All ages
inside“
PRICE £14 HHHH 45
DRAMA | SPECIAL EVENT SUITABILITY 3+ OK! MAGAZINE
AUDIENCE MEMBER 2017 FAMILYBelieve
The Cher Songbook
Sat 1
JUNE
JUNE
Turn back time and celebrate the Goddess of
Pop, Cher! This spectacular production relives
the Cher songbook including classics such
as, I Got You Babe, Just Like Jesse James, If I
Could Turn Back Time, Walking in Memphis,
Strong Enough, Believe and much more.
WHERE Empire Theatre
TIME 19.30 Daoirí Farrell
PRICE £25
SUITABILITY All ages
Sun 2 Reginald D.
MUSIC Singer and bouzouki player Daoirí (pronounced Hunter
‘Derry’) Farrell won BBC Radio 2 Folk Award
2017 for Best Newcomer and Best Traditional Facing the Beast
Track. Since then he’s toured with the all-star
Sun 2
549: Scots of Transatlantic Sessions in major venues across
the UK. Come and see this new talent live
Reginald’s searingly honest material has
the Spanish
here in the Highlands.
garnered him a popular fan base that spans
the generations. His appearances on television
Civil War “Daoirí is one of
have included Have I Got News for You, 8 Out
of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the hugely
Sat 1 the most important popular BBC2 series Reginald D Hunter’s Songs
of the South and its equally successful follow up
In a small pub in Prestonpans, East Lothian,
traditional singers Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of the Border, both
four millennials are told a story. The true to emerge in the of which documented the growth of American
popular song.
story of four local miners who, 80 years ago,
travelled from the streets of Prestonpans to last decade ”
the valleys of Spain. They gave up everything DÓNAL LUNNY
that was familiar for a land that was not, for
a people they had never met and for a cause “He has the audience in
they believed was right. the palm of his hand”
549, a play with songs and storytelling, is a
timely insight into one of Scotland’s almost
forgotten conflicts.
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
TIME 19.30
HHHH
EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINE
PRICE £13 - £15
In association with the Brunton Theatre and
SUITABILITY All ages
Citizens Theatre
WHERE OneTouch Theatre MUSIC
Supported by the National Lottery through WHERE Empire Theatre
Creative Scotland. TIME 20.00 TIME 20.00
PRICE £10 – £15 PRICE £22 – £24
“Black Watch reimagined for a SUITABILITY 14+ SUITABILITY 18+
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small town function room” DRAMA | MUSIC COMEDY
47
HHHH NEIL COOPER, THE HERALDEleanor Conway:
Walk of Shame 2
(Reality Bites)
JUNE
JUNE
Thu 6
Conway’s last blackout was 4 years ago and
she’s missing her old friend. What happens
when you wake up and realise the party is over?
Reality is harsh when you don’t have something
to take the ‘edge’ off. This award nominee
returns with her hotly anticipated sequel to her
hit 2016 smash, about what happens when you
RSNO Prom
stop chasing the ‘perfect’.
with the
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
HHHHH CREAM OF THE FRINGE TIME 20.00
Ayoub Sisters
PRICE £12
HHHH
Little Vicky
THE LIST
SUITABILITY 18+
ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA HHHH THE SKINNY COMEDY
and the Seven Wed 5
Assassins The brilliant Ayoub Sisters join the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra, Classic FM The Benny Lynch
Tue 4 presenter Anne-Marie Minhall and conductor
The crowds cheered, the bands played, Queen
Timothy Redmond in a fabulous evening
of some of the greatest and most popular
Story
Victoria waved. But among the smiling, adoring classical music ever written. Thu 6
faces were men with murderous thoughts.
History tells of a glorious, golden reign and an Shostakovich Festive Overture River City’s Stephen Purdon takes on the title
empire on which the sun never set. But history role in the ultimate rags to riches true story of
Vaughan Williams
does not often recall that during her rule there Benny Lynch, Scotland’s first ever boxing world
Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
were seven attempts to assassinate beloved champion. This poignant and entertaining new
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Vicky, Empress of Nearly Bloody Everything. production takes us from Benny’s childhood in
Who were these would be killers? Find out in Monti Czardas the Gorbals, to his global stardom and untimely
this fascinating tale told through melodrama, Traditional Misirlou death in 1946 aged only 33. It doesn’t matter
comedy and Rock-n-Roll! Wagner Ride of the Valkyries if you’re not a boxing fan - this is about the
extraordinary life of a true Scottish icon.
Sibelius Finlandia
Also starring David Hayman, Holly Jack and
“Convincing and powerful” Tchaikovsky Excerpts from Swan Lake
Simon Weir.
Arnold Four Scottish Dances
THE TIMES Directed by David Hayman Jr.
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
WHERE OneTouch Theatre WHERE Empire Theatre
WHERE Empire Theatre
TIME 20.00 TIME 19.30
TIME 19.30
48 PRICE £12 PRICE £10 – £25 49
PRICE £19 – £21
SUITABILITY 12+ SUITABILITY All ages
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SUITABILITY 14+
DRAMA COMEDY MUSIC
DRAMAThe Brandon Scott Gibson
McPhee Anywhere But Here
Experience
GILDED BALLOON
Sun 9
JUNE
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Fri 7
Award-winning comic Scott Gibson was just 16
Brandon McPhee returns for, what promises when he first tasted freedom and set off on a
to be, another brilliant evening of the best voyage of self-discovery. His destination? Kavos,
in Scottish and country music. Brandon is of course. Where else?
backed by a five-piece band of experienced Delivered in his breathlessly inimitable style,
professional musicians including Manson Grant Gibson takes you on an epic odyssey that charts
and Crawford Bell. Also, Scotland’s son of fun the choppy waters of youth. A blisteringly funny
Eddie Rose adds some humour making this evening on the escapism and hedonism that
show truly a family night out. travel promises, this is a story about friendship,
love, pool parties, travel insurance and the
WHERE Empire Theatre Greek third-choice goalie.
TIME 19.30 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer
PRICE £20 2016.
SUITABILITY All ages
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
MUSIC
TIME 19.30
PRICE £12
SUITABILITY 16+
COMEDY
“The way the show
is so carefully
tailored to the
audience’s needs
provides a vital Leah MacRae
reminder that My Big Fat Fabulous
theatre can Diary
accommodate
everyone” Sun 9
Join the star of BBC’s River City, Gary Tank
HHHH THE STAGE
Commander and the huge hit stage comedy 51
The Isle of Brimsker Shades of Maggie as she delves into the hilarious
pages of her Big, Fat, Fabulous Diary.
FROZEN LIGHT
Suitable for adult and “Leah MacRae is an absolute
With stories including cleaning cupboard first
young adult audiences star! Really funny and so clever.
Fri 7 + Sat 8 with PMLD and their
What a show! Just Brilliant!”
winch, the hold-in pants naked truffle shuffle,
some hysterical comedy songs and a belting
companions.
A lighthouse keeper lives on a desolate outcrop surrounded by ballad or two this show is simply hilarious!
JANE MCCARRY (STILL GAME)
stormy seas. She lives a solitary existence until one day a runaway
lands on the shore. Change is on the horizon but not in the form WHERE OneTouch Theatre
she expects… WHERE Empire Theatre
TIME 11.00 | 13.30
50 A new multi-sensory story of adventure and homecoming from PRICE £10
TIME 20.00 51
Frozen Light, specialists in making theatre for audiences with PRICE £19 – £21
SUITABILITY 13+
profound and multiple learning disabilities. SUITABILITY 16+
DRAMA
COMEDYJUNE
JUNE
The Summer of Love WHERE Empire Theatre
TIME 19.30
Tue 11 PRICE £23 – £25
SUITABILITY All ages
Join us for the greatest 60’s party in town - all the hits from one
MUSIC
of music’s most influential eras, including, California Dreaming,
San Francisco, Turn Turn, Turn, Somebody To Love, Happy
Together, Brown Eyed Girl, All Along The Watch and more than
40 classic songs from the summer that changed the world. Here Come
With original 1960s film footage, incredible vocals and a world
class live band, this ultimate 60s party will have you dancing in
“The music is the Boys
the aisles!
magic in their Tue 18 + Wed 19
hands” Three of the biggest rock stars of dance,
Aljaž Škorjanec, Giovanni Pernice and Gorka
SEAN RAFFERTY BBC RADIO 3
Marquez, battle each other in Latin, Ballroom,
commercial and contemporary and they
Christian need you to decide the champion! From
Rule the J.Lo to Bruno Mars, MJ, Gloria Estefan,
Garrick + The dance anthems and club classics!
World From the producers of Rip it Up and
Wed 12
Budapest Café Remembering Fred.
Love Aljaž? Check out Remembering the
Relive the magic and the Orchestra Movies (page 11)
musical of Take That! Enjoy
all the biggest hits including,
Sat 15
Never Forget, Greatest Day, The Budapest Café Orchestra have won Meet + Greet
Back for Good, Relight legions of fans through their magical and
My Fire and many more. Best Seats | VIP Laminate
infectious performances. Evoking vivid
Signed Programme
If you like Take That you will images of Tzigane fiddle maestros, Budapest
Tuesday 18 + Wednesday 19
LOVE Rule The World. café life and gypsy campfires - plus a few
16.30 | £100
surprises along the way - hugely entertaining,
immense skill and profound musicianship.
Come and see for yourself. WHERE Empire Theatre
WHERE Empire Theatre WHERE OneTouch Theatre TIME 19.30
TIME 19.30 TIME 19.30 PRICE £28.50 – £42.50
52 SUITABILITY All ages 53
PRICE £23.50 - £25.50 PRICE £15
SUITABILITY All ages SUITABILITY All ages DANCE
MUSIC MUSICTim Edey Catrin Finch + “an emotional demonstration
of how two virtuoso musicians
Wed 19
Seckou Keita triumphantly bring different
cultures together”
Twice BBC Folk Award
winner (Best Musician), Tim
Wed 26
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Edey’s live solo shows are a THE GUARDIAN
Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese
stunning mix of world music kora player Seckou Keita deliver a stunning
inspired instrumental virtuosity exhibition of world-class musicianship as they
and passion with a strong perform from their critically acclaimed, multi-
Celtic theme. award winning album, Soar. Drawing deep on
their own diverse traditions and transforming
them with remarkable synergy, Catrin and
Seckou have built a formidable reputation for
WHERE OneTouch Theatre their extraordinary performances and recently
TIME 20.00 won Froots Album of the Year 2018.
PRICE £12 - £14
SUITABILITY All ages
WHERE OneTouch Theatre
MUSIC
TIME 19.30
PRICE £10 – £16
“Tim Edey plays a host of different SUITABILITY All ages
instruments to a standard us mere mortals MUSIC
can only dream of. Listen and weep”
LIVING TRADITION
Adam Kay
This Is Going To Hurt
(Secret Diaries of a
Junior Doctor)
Wed 26
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares
entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this
“electrifying” (Guardian) evening of stand-up and
music. Absolute sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2016,
Genesis Legacy
2017 & 2018, Soho Theatre 2017, UK tour and
West End 2018.
The book of the same name is a bestseller and
Thu 20 is being turned into a major BBC series.
Genesis paved the way for the careers of Phil Collins, Tony
Banks, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett. With an
attention to detail and affection for the music that’s rarely found
WHERE OneTouch Theatre HHHHH
in a tribute show, Genesis Legacy brings the biggest songs from TIME 20.00 MAIL ON SUNDAY
those five super-acts into an explosive show performed PRICE £23 – £25
“Hilarious and
by genuine super-fans! SUITABILITY All ages
54 WHERE Empire Theatre 55
MUSIC TIME 19.30
heart-breaking” PRICE £24 – £27
SUITABILITY 12+
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CHARLIE BROOKER
TALK COMEDYJU
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JULY
DID YOU KNOW
In the last 12 months the
café has served 15,478 bowls
of soup and 63,018 coffees
LY
Image: Bannister – Douglas Baxter Hall, Bishop’s Palace.
Photo by: Mike Webster
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Zog “Lovingly interpreted
with colour, flair and
Tom Gates “This truly amazing
show brings my books
Fri 12 – Sun 14 talent, Zog will have
thousands of children
Live on Stage! wonderfully to life in a
fantastically funny and
By Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
laughing and falling in Thu 18 – Sat 20 visually mesmerizing
Large in size, and keen in nature, Zog is so eager to win a
golden star at Madam Dragon’s school, where dragons learn love with theatre” Based on the best-selling books by Liz Pichon, this brand way. It’s a total feast
all the things that dragons need to know. Zog tries so very hard, new story of TOM GATES is brought to you by the award-winning for the eyes and ears
perhaps too hard and he bumps, burns and roars his way HHHHH team behind Horrible Histories and Gangsta Granny and for the
and I couldn’t be
through years one, two and three. MUSICAL THEATRE REVIEW first time ever it’s LIVE ON STAGE!
prouder of it!”
Luckily, the plucky Princess Pearl patches him up ready to face Tom’s doing everything possible to stay out of trouble but
his biggest challenge yet…a duel with a knight, Sir Gadabout somehow he’s got THREE sad faces on the school achievement LIZ PICHON
the Great! chart! And getting another sad face means Mr Fullerman won’t
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much-loved Zog comes to let him go on the SCHOOL TRIP! Moany Marcus Meldrew is
WHERE Empire Theatre making things worse and now Tom’s annoyed his grumpy sister
life in Mike Shepherd’s (founder and Artistic Director of Kneehigh) WHERE Empire Theatre
magical adaptation with Johnny Flynn’s (award-winning actor TIME Fri 16.30 Delia. EVEN Amy Porter (who’s smart) won’t talk to him! Can
TIME Thu 14.00 | 19.00
and singer-songwriter with The Sussex Wit) sumptuous folk score Sat 11.00 | 14.00 | 16.00 his best friend Derek help? Will Rooster the dog stop eating
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featuring live musicians. Katie Sykes’ design lifts the book from Sun 11.00 | 14.00 his homework? Will his grandparents the Fossils ever make
Sat 10.30 | 14.30 | 19.00
the page and creates a real and fantastical world. From the team PRICE £13.50 – £15.50 something he can actually EAT?
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58 behind Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales and Tabby McTat, Zog SUITABILITY All ages This exciting and hilarious new adventure brings Liz Pichon’s 59
promises to be roaring fun for all ages. fantastic characters to life and is perfect for all the family whether SUITABILITY 5+
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