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The
National Theatre Of Scotland 2006 Season.
Productions in 2006 Season.
Artistic Director - Vicky Featherstone. Article
about her.
Company Base - Presently at Atlantic Chambers, 45 Hope Street,
Glasgow, G2 6AE.
Email.
Details of main Artistic and creative NTS personnel here.
Administrative Number - 0141 221 0970. To move in 2006 to Easterhouse,
Glasgow.
Web - www.nationaltheatrescotland.com
22 varied productions, some free in the National Theatre of Scotland's
first season.
Finally many years in the lobbying and dreaming it's going to happen
in 2006, Scotland will have its own National Theatre, the National
Theatre Of Scotland, NTS. This one is not like the one based in
London. This one will commission work and set up collaborations with
existing companies. It will take to the high roads and the low roads
of Scotland and sometimes abroad to give audiences a theatrical sense
of Scots and the world in new plays, adaptations and revivals. Unlike
the "English" National Theatre (ENT?), which occasionally
ventures out of its London home, it should be possible to see NTS productions
at least once in a while close to your own doorstep. The NTS Ensemble
is a repertory company of six that will take three high quality plays
(a children's, young adult and adult show) to between 25-30 rural venues
around Scotland from September to November 2006. In addition there will
be an extensive programme of projects by the learning and outreach arm,
NTS Learn, the new work department, NTS Workshop and the NTS Young Company.
The first night - 25 February - will see ten productions,
all created around the theme of HOME, open simultaneously up and down
the country, from Shetland, Stornoway and Caithness to Inverness, Aberdeen,
Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, East Lothian and the Borders. Playwrights
have been commissioned to write plays for the first night of the National
Theatre of Scotland and the night will be FREE, capacity will
depend on the nature of each individual production. They will be directed
by leading Scottish directors. Reviews of East
Lothian Home and Edinburgh
Home.
The National Theatre Of Scotland has since the announcement of its creation
in 2003 been slowly and steadily growing a band of staff and associates,
with a strong playwriting vein. The non-building based commissioning
theatre will draw on the talents of existing companies, playwrights
and theatre artists working in Scotland and mix in foreign renowned
practitioners, creating new work and much wanted revivals and adaptations
for all ages. The NTS aims to bring theatre to the Scottish nation,
to all sorts of venues including our large city theatres and small rural
halls. Its first exciting season of very varied productions will begin
in February 2006.
The longer running shows in the First NToS
season with links to relevant reviews.
The Wolves in The Walls - co-production with Improbable - Lucy is
sure there are wolves in the walls. Can she and her pig puppet deal
with them? Based on the book by graphic novelist Neil
Gaiman and illustrator Dave
McKean) website
about Damian & McKean books it's directed by Vicky Featherstone
and Julian Crouch. For children and adults this production
should be visually stunning with Julian Crouch on board the man who
has been responsible for memorable settings (including Shockheaded
Peter) that delight. Improbable
are a London based company whose work is shot through with zest for
humanity. This looks like a strong production to delight all.It will
tour round Scotland and to London's Lyric Hammersmith and go to America
in 2005 - 2006.
Review - Draws
you very willingly in.
Dates - Opens in March at Tramway Glasgow 23 March - 8
April, Lyric Hammersmith, London 10 - 29 April, Perth
Theatre 2 - 6 May, macRobert, Stirling 9 - 10 May, Adam Smith,
Kirkcaldy 12 & 13 May and Gaiety Theatre Ayr 18 -
20 May. Tour Ends.
Falling - NTS Workshop co-production with Poorboy in association
with The Arches Theatre Company - A promenade production devised
and directed by Poorboy's Artistic Director Sandy Thomson, above and
below the streets of Glasgow from the Angus-based company who produced
the site-specific productions Learning
The Games Of Chinese Whispers , nominated in 2005 for Critics' Award
for Theatre In Scotland (CATS) Best Production and Bridge
Builders .
Lost. Lied to. Maligned. And knocked back by love….Through the
streets and subways of the city centre an innocent bastard Glasgow liar
chases beauty and redemption - without a map. Be careful, so careful,
what you wish for.
Review - Just
hasn't arrived enough yet.
The audience will meet at Queen Street Train Station at 7.55pm.Tickets
can be collected from the Arches Box Office until 7.30pm on the night
of performance and then from Arches staff on the main concourse of Queen
Street Station from 7.45pm. Latecomers will not be admitted Running
time - approx 90 minutes with no interval. A promenading site-specific
performance through the heart of the city. The performance promenades
indoors and outside over some distance. Please dress appropriately and
contact Jacqui Skelton on 07793 058213 if you have any specific access
requirements.
Dates - 14 March - 15 April at 7.55pm.
Roam - NTS co-production with Grid Iron Theatre Company - Site-specific
production at BAA Edinburgh International Airport directed by
Grid Iron's Artistic Director Ben Harrison. This Scottish based company's
productions take you into to familiar spaces and touch them with magic
and storytellingthey have won and been nominated for several Critics
Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) awards. Important - You MUST travel
on bus provided No admission at airport. You MUST bring current pasport
or valid UK Driving license and will be subject to normal airport security.
Pre-booking essential.
Review - Trip
you'll delight to be part.
Dates - 4 - 22 April not Suns. Departs Traverse Theatre at 8:30pm
(not Sundays) and inculdes return travel.
The Crucible - An NTS Learn production and co-production with TAG
Theatre Company - Aruthur Miller's play about a community that tears
itself apart when it thinks there is evil in its midst. Directed by
Guy Hollands of TAG who has just directed a fine production of The
Taste of Honey this autumn. Five completely unique casts will form
the focus for a range of teacher and student learning programmes.
Will tour to Howden Park Centre, Livingstone 3 - 8 April, Cumbernauld
Theatre 18 - 22 April, Universal Hall, Findhorn 24 - 29 April,
Byre Theatre, St Andrews 2 - 6 May and Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
8 - 14 May. Tour Ends.
Elizabeth Gordon Quinn - NTS - Directed by John Tiffany - Chris
Hannan's play about Elizabeth Gordon Quinn a woman struggling to keep
her dignity faced with poverty, rising rent prices and a son who is
wanted for desertion from his regiment. Set at the time of the Glasgow
rent strikes of 1915 this play premiered at the Traverse in 1995. Hannan's
Shining
Souls recieved a CATS for Best production when it was revived at
the Tron in 2004. This one tours Scoland and Belfast.
Dates - Opens in April at Dundee Rep 25 - 29 April, Citizens'
Theatre, Glasgow 2 - 6 May, Perth Theatre 9 - 13 May,
Lyric Theatre, Belfast 23 - 27 May. Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
31 May - 3 June, His Majesty's Aberdeen 6 - 10 June. Tour Ends..
Other productions to come in the 2006 Season.
These Include
NTS Unmissable - Re-stages outstanding Scottish theatre productions
from the recent past that NTS believes demand to be seen by a much wider
audience, both nationally and internationally.
The Wonderful World of Dissocia - NTS co-production with The Tron,
Glasgow and Drum Theatre, Plymouth - part of NTS Unmissable - Written
and directed by Anthony Neilson, the premiere Festival 2004 production
won several CATS awards including Best New play.
Review
of the Festival 2004 Production.
This production will tour internationally as well as nationally.
Snuff - NTS co-production with Arches Theatre Company - - part of
NTS Unmissable - Written and directed by Davey Anderson ( A Winner
of The Arches Award for Stage Directors). A room, a tower block, a city
like Glasgow. An anxious skinhead documents the world around him, trying
to make sense of the global forces of consumer culture, religious fundamentalism
and the war on terror. Snuff asks us to confront difficult questions
about British masculine identity.
Review - Tough
and riveting. (co-production with Arches Theatre Company).
The NTS Ensemble - a repertory company of six that will take
three high quality plays (a children's, young adult and adult show)
to between 25-30 rural venues around Scotland from September to November
2006. Productions will be
Mancub - NTS - co-production with Vanishing Point - part of NTS Ensemble
- A play based on By Douglas Maxwell, directed by Matthew Lenton.
Review
of the orginal production by Vanishing Point.
Tours across Scotland in Sept - Nov 2006.
Miss Julie - NTS - part of NTS Ensemble - August Strindberg's
play about a young woman who plays games with a servant, adapted and
directed by Zinnie Harris playwright and director of Nightingale
and Chase and writer of Further
Than The Furtherest Thing.
Tours across Scotland in Sept - Nov 2006.
NTS Learn production - Involving a cast of professional actors
working alongside students and community actors.
The Crucible - An NTS Learn production and co-production with TAG
Theatre Company - Aruthur Miller's play about a community that tears
itself apart when it thinks there is evil in its midst. Directed by
Guy Hollands of TAG who has just directed a fine production of The
Taste of Honey this autumn. Five completely unique casts will form
the focus for a range of teacher and student learning programmes.
Will tour to Howden Park Centre, Livingstone 3 - 8 April, Cumbernauld
Theatre 18 - 22 April, Universal Hall, Findhorn 24 - 29 April,
Byre Theatre, St Andrews 2 - 6 May and Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
8 - 14 May. Tour Ends.
The Others are
Black Watch - NTS - A new play about the regiment based on verbatim
interviews and docuementary evidence by Gregory Burke. Directed by John
Tiffany who directed Burke's The
Straits about teenagers of service families living on Gibralter
Rock for Paines Plough for the 2003 Fringe.
To open and be seen at the Edinburgh Festival 2006.
Untitled - NTS co-production with the Edinburgh International Festival
- A new play written and directed by Anthony Neilson will premiere
at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival.
This will open and be seen at the Edinburgh International Festival
2006.
Tutti Frutti - NTS co-production with His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
- The 1980's hit TV series adapted for the stage by its creator
by John Byrne who wriote the also much loved Slab
Boy's Trilogy will be directed by Tony Cownie. The Majestics and
their management Messers Clockerty and Cairns will be back with the
sharp Miss Toner.
This will open in Autumn 2006 at His Majesty's Aberdeen and will
tour to large-scale venues in Scotland and beyond.
Mary Stuart - NTS co-production with the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
and Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh - Friedrich Schiller's famous
play with a dramatic ficitional meeting between Mary and Elizabeth in
a new version by David Harrower (Knives
and Hens), directed by Vicky Featherstone.
Opens in Autumn 2006 and at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and Royal
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
Aalst - NTS co-production with Tramway and
Victoria of Belgium - Pol Heyvaert concivied, directed and designed
production - Aalst, a typical provincial city in Belgium, where a married
couple is on trial for killing their children. This "performance
of an interrogation" is based on the trial records and television
reports of a real court case. just about to open in its English-language
premiere at the Munich Theatre Festival.
At Glasgow in Autumn 2006.
This is only part of the extensive and diverse productions and activites
the NTS have planned for their first season. Its size and range reflects
the liberation of vision that happens if a theatre company have no public
building to run and maintain. It's a thrilling programme, one of width
and depth and vision, look out Scotland and the world!
© Thelma Good 2005 - published on EdinburghGuide.com
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