Mull Theatre has two new productions this year, as well as two revivals.  This is also the last season in the world-famous Mull Little Theatre in Dervaig, so don’t miss the opportunity to join 42 theatre-lovers in a uniquely intimate audience experience!

ART by Yasmina Reza
translated by Christopher Hampton
Mull Little Theatre, from Friday 26 May 2006

The season on Mull opens with one of the funniest, most successful and enjoyable plays of recent years. A huge hit in its native France, the show opened in London’s West End in 1996 to rave reviews, winning an Olivier Award and the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy.

Is a white painting art? How much would you pay for what is essentially a blank canvas? Would it matter who painted it? Serge has just bought a very expensive painting. It measures about five feet by four; it’s all white with white diagonal lines. Marc can’t forgive Serge for spending so much, but Serge insists Marc isn’t capable of judging art. Their mutual friend, Ivan, although burdened with problems of his own, says he likes the painting. Battle lines are drawn and these old friends square off over the canvas. A darkly comic, sometimes riotous, study of friendship.

OLD HERBACEOUS by Reginald Arkell
adapted by Alfred Shaughnessy
Mull Little Theatre, from Wednesday 14 June 2006

It's not often that you find a play which gives you gardening tips and cookery suggestions! This one-man show about Bert, the head gardener at a country house, has entranced audiences all around the country. It was a much-loved part of Mull Little Theatre’s summer seasons in 1985 and 1987, and we welcome its return for the final year at the old theatre.

As Bert potters around his plant pots and gardening tools, he relates tales of his life as a gardener, completely drawing us in to his special world and treating us as garden party guests who are nosing in on his greenhouse.
This new production will feature the same actor who appeared in the 80s, Robert Paterson, now much more of a hardy perennial and just the right age for his role as the elderly gardener!


MACBETH by William Shakespeare
Mull Little Theatre, from Monday 10 July 2006

From the very earliest years, Mull Theatre has staged some of world’s classic plays. Shakespeare’s Tempest and King Lear appeared in the 1960s, and as late as the 1980s a puppet version of Macbeth played Dervaig and toured the country. By way of a tribute to the pioneering and creative spirit of Barrie and Marianne Hesketh, we now stage a new production of Shakespeare’s “Scottish play” - 400 years of Macbeth helps celebrate 40 years of Mull Theatre.
Macbeth has always seemed among the most modern of the Bard’s plays, and contemporary world issues throw its themes into sharp relief: backroom conniving, naked ambition, insider dealing, moral ambiguity, hypocrisy, corruption at the highest levels… Base qualities run deep in the human psyche, but not so deep that Shakespeare couldn’t lay them bare.

The 2006 production is dynamic, inventive, imaginative and theatrical. It has a non-specific time and place setting, emphasising its universal and contemporary impact.

EGG by Fiona Colliss
Mull Little Theatre, from Wednesday 5 July 2006

This is the story of Red, whose mission is to protect two eggs that are bound for Earth in a spaceship. Red must protect, love, entertain and educate the precious eggs on their journey. She does her best to keep the eggs happy, but sometimes she gets carried away and things don’t go to plan! A very family friendly show, suitable for all ages.
Fiona Colliss is a trained clown, circus artist, youth theatre leader and registered "Clown Doctor". This is clowning with the emphasis on characterisation, movement, innocence and playfulness, with honest responses to internal impulses and external events. Egg was inspired by the clowning of Charlie Chaplin, Slava (Russia), Pig Iron Theatre Company (Philadelphia), Cirque de Soleil (Canada) and Gardi Hutter (Switzerland).

For full details see website at www.mulltheatre.com  Box Office Tel: 01688 302828 Email: bookings@mulltheatre.com