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Kidnapped
- Tour & World Premiere.
An Adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name.
Adaptors - Robert Paterson and Alasdair McCrone.
Director - Alasdair McCrone.
Designer - Robin Peoples.
Lighting Designer - Simon Sewell.
Music Soundscape - John Davidson.
Sound - Geoff Minto.
Fight Director - Raymond Short.
Gaelic Advisor - Janet MacDonald.
Company - Mull Theatre.
Cast - here .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at Perth Theatre.
Run Time - 2 hours 45 mins including one interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Creative combination kidnaps.
Kidnapped - Mull Theatre Production.
David Fitzgerald - David Balfour and Alan Steele -
Ebenezer.
© Graeme Hart, Perthshire Picture
Agency 2003.
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Best books are magic, open them and step inside and the writer's world
take you away. Stevenson's Kidnapped certainly does this, transporting
you back to a Scotland in turmoil. His story is a superb adventure and
this new dramatisation and production winds us in almost as skillfully
as the original.
It's set just after The '45. That's 1745 when some of Scotland's peoples
rebelled unsuccessfully for the second time against the British Government.
David Balfour is a young man just coming to manhood. When his father dies
David's unscrupulous uncle has the orphan kidnapped and on a boat to The
Carolinas. Breaking out of his imprisonment with the help of a Jacobite
highland renegade and a shipwreck Balfour finds himself alone on an West
Coast Scottish island.
Back on the mainland David witnesses an assassination and is reunited
with Alan - their journey back to Edinburgh, dodging the redcoats can
still be largely followed today. Andrew Clark is exuberant and
rightly romantic as Breck, the hero with flaws, it's an excellent contrast
to David Fitzgerald's Balfour - a wholly likeable and more of a
feat credible embodiment of the innocent, puritanical youth. These two
central actors are joined by a strong supporting cast of Alan Steele,
John Langford, Alan McPherson and Beth Marshall. An acting
SM and ASM also give some wee cameo performances. All adds to the feel
of a story bursting with characters - young and old, male and female,
highlander and lowlander and reflect the complex nation it was then and
is even more so now.
The set by Robin Peoples is flexible creating an astonishing variety of
interiors and exteriors - Edinburgh's Old Town, the uncle's rundown tower
house and many rural settings. Only the too dominating ship's hull and
the inability to lose some of the set off stage during the scenes on ship
or on Erraid distract. Otherwise it adds to the theatrical intrigue to
see the set's many formations revealed.
Throughout the performance there's music from John Davidson, so it's almost
like watching a film miraculously happening in front of us. Mull Theatre's
Kidnapped has the creative combination to kidnap and take you through
wave and heather and back by Fife, landing you back in your life with
a tear in your eye because the journey has ended and such a friendship.
© Thelma Good 19 September 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast - David Fitzgerald - David Balfour,
Andrew Clark - Alan Breck Stewart, Beth Marshall - Jennet,
Lass of Limekins, Ransome, John Langford - Hoseason, James of the
Glen, Torrance, Alan McPherson - Mungo Campbell, Riach, John Breck,
MacColl, Rankeillor, Alan Steele - Ebenezer, Catechist, Colin Campbell,
Cluny, Fleur Linden Beeley & Struan Sewell - Various and
John Davidson - Musician.
2004 Tour Details of Mull Theatre's production
of Kidnapped.
24 March - 3 April at 7.30pm ( mats at 10.30am on 25 March & 2.30pm
on 3 April)at Glasgow Citizens Theatre 0141 429 0022.
6 April at 8pm Isle of Lewis Stornoway Town Hall 01851 703307.
7 April at 8pm Benbecula Sgoil Lionacleit tkts at door.
10 & 12 April at 8pm Mull Tobermory Aros Hall 01688 302828.
14 April at 7:30pm Stranraer Ryan Centre Theatre 01776 703535.
16 April at 7:30pm Galashiels Volunteer Hall 01750 724901.
14 - 17 April at 8pm Inverness Eden Court 01436 234 234.
20 - 31 July at 7:45pm Sat Mats at 2:30pm. Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre
0131 248 4848.
6 & 7 August at 8pm Mull Tobermory Aros Hall 01688 302828.
In 2003 it toured to
18 Sep - 4 Oct Perth Theatre Tues - Sat at 7.30pm Matinees 2:30pm on Weds
and Sats.
6 Oct at 7.30pm Fraserburgh, Dalrymple Hall 01346 515153.
7 Oct at 7.30pm Inverurie, Town Hall 01467 625800.
8 Oct at 7.30pm Elgin, Town Hall 01343 562600.
9 Oct at 7.30pm Aberdeen, Arts Centre 01224 641122.
10 Oct at 7.30pm Dunfermline, Carnegie Hall 01383 314000.
11 Oct at 7.30pm Stonehaven, Town Hall 01569 762001.
13 Oct at 7.30pm Ullapool, Macphail Theatre 01854 613336.
14 Oct at 8pm Lochinver, Village Hall 01571 844262.
15 Oct at 8pm (Halkirk, Ross Institute) Lyth Arts Centre-In-Exile 01955
641270.
16 Oct at 7.30pm Durness, Village Hall 01971 511381.
17 Oct at 7.30pm Clashmore, Carnegie Hall 01862 811068.
18 Oct at 8pm Ardross, Hall 01349 880591.
20 Oct at 7.30pm Strontian, Arainn Shuaineirt 01397 709228.
21 Oct at 7.30pm Isle Of Mull, Bunessan Hall 01681 700252.
23 Oct at 7.30pm Isle Of Bute, Rothesay, Pavilion 01700 504250.
24 Oct at 8pm Isle Of Islay, Port Ellen, Ramsay Hall 01496 810262.
25 Oct at 7.30pm Ardrishaig, Public Hall 01546 603596.
27 Oct at 7.30pm Campbeltown, Victoria Hall 01586 554469.
28 Oct at 7.30pm Garelochhead, Gibson Hall 01436 810403.
29 Oct at 7.45pm Cumbernauld Theatre 01236 732887.
30 Oct - 1 Nov at 7.30pm Musselburgh, Brunton Theatre 0131 665 2240.
3 Nov at 7.30pm Mallaig, Community Hall 01687 460039.
4 Nov at 7.30pm Isle Of Skye, Sabhal Mor Ostaig 01471 844207.
5 Nov at 7.30pm Nethy Bridge, Community Hall 01479 841211.
6 Nov at 7.30pm Ballachulish, Village Hall 01855 811979.
7 - 8 Nov at 7.30pm Oban, Corran Halls 01631 567333.
Tour ends
Theatre Editor, Thelma
Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com
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