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Based in Dervaig & Tobermory on the north of a beautiful Island in
the Inner Hebrides - Iona, St Columba's Isle is off the western tip of
Mull. This well established theatre, the only rurally based revenue funded
theatre in Scotland, is producing 2 plays this season on the island as
well as having various visiting companies.
I highly recommend Mull and Iona for their glorious scenery, welcoming
people and fine food.
Director - Alistair McCrone
Company Base - Mull Theatre Upper Druimfin, Tobermory. BO
- 01688 301013.
Reviews of Past and current Shows.
2005 Shows.
Cyprus - Mull Theatre - On Mull "Colonel" Brian Traquair,
a man with a secretive past returns with company, Griffin, a figure from
sunny days on Cyprus kown also to his daughter Alison. He brings back
the darkness of the outside world. And through the door with him come
wars foreign and domestic, old and new. Terrorism and intrigue, corruption
and covert action, have come home.
Review - Eloquent,
if surprisingly old-fashioned.
Opened
in Mull then went to Trafalgar
Studios, London 16 Nov - 17 Dec 2005.
Katie Morag
- Mull Theatre Company - Dramatisation of Marie Hedderwick's very
popular stories of the little girl who lives on an island and has two
very different grannies adapted by Lisa Grindall.
Review - Not
quite as charming.
Toured over Highland and Island after opening on Mull and went to Glasgow
Citizens' Theatre 20 - 24 Sept 2005.
2004 Season.
Whisky Galore - Mull Little Theatre Company - Compton Mackenzie
story dramatised - when a ship full of whisky gets wrecked on a wee Hebridean
island spirits are raised and dashed. This production also toured to Highland
Festival.
Review - Fun
to delight in.
Kidnapped - Mull Theatre/Perth Theatre Co-production - Robert Louis
Stevenson's adventure story of David Balfour and Alan Beck set against
Scotland after 1745. Adapted for the stage by Alasdair McCrone and Robert
Paterson, with a new musical soundscape created and played live on stage
by John Davidson. Revivial of its 2003 production with same cast.
Review - Creative
combination kidnaps. Review of 2003 tour.
Jekyll and Hyde - Mull Theatre & Scottish Touring Theatre Consortium
- Stevenson's chilling tale about a man with two personalities, one
safe the other very dangereous from a company who make quality theatre
on a beautiful island. Toured in Scotland in Autumn 2004.
Review - Dramatises
Scottish subconscious.
The Lonesome
West - Mull Theatre - The Lonesome West, as cruel as it is comedic,
and the third and final part of Martin McDonagh's Leenane trilogy as well
as an electrifyingly unmissable stand alone play, Set in a small Irish
community, two brothers are forced to relive their resentments and reveal
their darkest secrets in an orgy of destruction.
Review - Great
time fighting with filial feelings.
Performed only at Mull Theatre, Tobermory in 2004 then toured in 2005.
2003 Season.
Skylight - Mull Theatre Company - David Hare's play receives its
Scottish premiere.
Review - Exploring
the geography of hearts.
Run ended.
The Designated Mourner - Mull Theatre Company - Wallace Shawn is
an American playwright whose plays are set in contemporary US and entertain
as they explore the strange way we live.
Review - Striking
production makes you sit up & think.
Run ended but plan to tour in 2004.
Kidnapped - Perth Theatre co-production with Mull Theatre - Robert
Louis Stevenson - An exciting new adaptation of one of the all time great
adventure stories of kidnap, murder, treachery and mutiny on the high
seas. A tale full of wonderful characters, live music and a newly commissioned
soundscape. £9.50/£6.
Tour ended but to tour again in Scotland in 2004- Kidnapped
by creative combination.
2002 Season.
There Was A Man - Mull Theatre Production of Tom Wright's play
about Burns Scotland's National Bard with John Langford. revived in
2003 for tour see tours page for details
Review -
Intimate and intense
Copenhagen - Mull Theatre Production of Michael Frayn's play about
the physicists Bohr and Heisenberg and Bohr's wife Margareta
Review - Challenging,
highly stimulating, and ultimately rewarding
Tour ended
A Skull In Connemara - Mull Theatre Production of Martin McDonagh's
2nd play in his acclaimed Trilogy after The Beauty Queen of Leenane and
before The Lieutenant Of Inishmore.
Review - Whipped
up to fine effect by cast's cracking pace
Tour Ended
© Thelma Good 7 June 2003 and further revisions.
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