Inverness-based Dogstar Theatre Company are proud to present an extensive tour throughout Scotland in May & June 2006 of Ali Smith’s hilarious new comedy The Seer.

Neil and Iona lead comfortable lives. They both have well-paid professional jobs in the new Highland metropolis; they dress themselves and their home immaculately. They are smug, self-centred and essentially quite bored with each other. Into their lives bursts Kirsty, Iona’s anarchic sister, who upturns the couple’s quiet night in, the play and the audience.

Only a bit to do with Hielan’ second sight, The Seer is a contemporary comedy of manners; a lively, funny, satirical roller coaster about domestic perfection, free spirits and the new Scotland. Directed by Dogstar’s Joint Artistic Director Matthew Zajac, the production features a strong Scottish cast, including Vivien Grahame (also known as stand-up comedienne Viv Gee).

Following four successful music theatre productions including last year’s hit Seven Ages, all written by Dogstar’s founder and Joint Artistic Director Hamish MacDonald, The Seer represents a departure for the company into new territory, expanding its scope to embrace the work of some of Northern Scotland’s finest writers. The Seer will be the first of these productions, a truly original work and the first professionally-produced full-length play by Inverness-born Ali Smith.

‘A timely reminder of how much Scottish theatre needs this strand of Highland-made work with all its wild surrealism, structural anarchy, passionate lyricism and spiritual openness.’ The Scotsman on Seven Ages

Ali Smith is an internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer. Her latest novel The Accidental won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Prize, was nominated for the Booker Prize and is now nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction (announced in June 2006). Her second novel, Hotel World (2001), won the Encore Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the inaugural Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for both the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize for Fiction.
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The Seer - Full cast list:
Vivien Grahame (Iona); Douglas Russell (Neil); Sarah Haworth (Kirsty); Irene Allan (Sabrina); Mairi Morrison (Janice & Mrs. Henderson)

Tour Dates:
May 3rd & 4th Spectrum Centre (Eden Court), Inverness
May 5th Strathpeffer Pavilion, Easter Ross
May 6th Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye
May 10th Lochinver Village Hall, Sutherland
May 11th Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness
May 12th Rosehall Village Hall, by Lairg, Sutherland
May 13th Millenium Hall, Glenmoriston
May 16th Plockton Village Hall, Wester Ross
May 17th MacPhail Centre, Ullapool, Wester Ross
May 18th An Lanntair, Stornoway, Western Isles
May 19th St. Mary's Hall, Benbecula, Western Isles
May 20th Castlebay Community School, Barra, Western Isles
June 2nd & 3rd Garrison Theatre, Lerwick, Shetland
June 15th Badenoch Centre, Kingussie

For more information: www.dogstartheatre.co.uk