New dance and theatre work touring across Scotland this autumn
This autumn, benchtours, Tabula Rasa Dance Company and the Curve Foundation Dance Company will all be touring across Scotland with brand new and exciting work.
The Curve Foundation Dance Company will present the UK Première of Under the Skin by Portuguese choreographer Rui Lopes Graça and a new piece by Ross Cooper, alongside Jonathan Watkins’s gorgeous Beyond Prejudice. They will be performing at the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on 20 and 21 October and The MacRobert in Stirling on 10 November, before embarking on a larger tour in the spring. www.curvefoundation.org for details.
Under the artistic directorship of Ross Cooper, the company has become in the last few years one of the leading lights in Scottish contemporary dance, presenting a mix of new choreographies by emerging choreographers as well as rarely seen classics by such masters as Peter Darrell and Merce Cunningham alongside work by Cooper himself.
benchtours will be touring with their new production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage. This dark and bitingly funny play on man’s unique inhumanity probes at the heart of the human impact of our world at war. Mother Courage follows benchtours’ fantastically successful and acclaimed production of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle and will open at the Brunton Theatre on 27 October before touring across Scotland until 25 November.
Marking the 50th anniversary of Brecht's death, Mother Courage is the latest in a succession of acclaimed European classics from benchtours, and will be directed by Peter Clerke with live music by Steve Kettley of Salsa Celtica. www.benchtours.com for more information.
Tabula Rasa Dance Company presents The Winter Room, an intimate dance theatre performance choreographed and performed by Claire Pençak and featuring an exciting new score by Glasgow-based composer Malcolm Lindsay. The Winter Room will be opening in Wick on 28 October before touring across Scotland, with the final dates at Tramway in Glasgow on 23 and 24 November.
Tabula Rasa’s work has been described by the press as poetic and atmospheric and this latest work will not disappoint: with stage design by Brian Hartley and lighting by Graeme Gardner.
THE CURVE FOUNDATION – PERFORMANCE DATES
Friday 20 and Saturday 21 October at 7.30pm
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
Tickets: 0131 665 2240 (£10.50 / £8 / £6.50)
Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October at 2.00pm
Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
Free event
Friday 3 November at 7.45pm
Corran Halls, Oban
Tickets: 01631 567 333 (£7/ £5)
Friday 10 November at 7.30pm
macrobert, University of Stirling
Tickets: 01786 466666 (£10 / £6)
BENCHTOURS – MOTHER COURAGE PERFORMANCE DATES
Friday 27 and Saturday 28 October at 7.30pm
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh.
Tickets: 0131 665 2240
Wednesday 1 November at
Universal Hall Arts Centre, Findhorn Foundation
Tickets available 2 weeks in advance from 01309 690110 and www.thebooth.co.uk
Friday 3 November at
Orkney Arts Theatre, Kirkwall
Tickets: www.thebooth.co.uk
Monday 6 November at 7.30pm
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Tickets: www.thebooth.co.uk - £10/£6
Thursday 9 November at
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Box Office: 01224 642230
Book Online: www.lemontree.org
Saturday 11 November at
macrobert, University of Stirling
Tickets: 01786 466666 and www.thebooth.co.uk
Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 (matinee) November
The Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
Tickets: 01721 725777
Friday 17 November (Matinee & Evening Performance)
North Edinburgh Arts Centre
Tickets: 0131 3152151 and www.thebooth.co.uk - £8/£5
Wednesday 22 November at
The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews
Tickets: 01334 475000 and www.byretheatre.com
Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 November at
The Arches, Glasgow
Tickets: 0870 2407528 and www.thearches.co.uk
TABULA RASA DANCE COMPANY – PERFORMANCE DATES
Saturday 26 October at 8pm
Lyth Arts Centre, Wick
Tickets : 01955 641 270 - £10/£8/£6
Saturday 4 November at 7.45pm
The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews
Tickets 01334 475000 - £9/£7/£6
Wednesday 8 November at 8pm
Dornie Hall, Lochalsh
Tickets: 01599 544 400 - £7/£2
Friday 10 November at 8pm
Carnegie Hall, Clashmore
Tickets: 01408 635 211 - £ 6/£4
Saturday 11 November at 8pm
Glen Urqhuart Public Hall, Drumnadrochit
Tickets: www.thebooth.co.uk - £8 /£6
Thursday 16 November at 7.30pm
Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Banchory
Tickets: 01330 825 431 - £9/£6/£2
Friday 17 November at 7.30pm
Tullynessle and Forbes Hall, Near Alford
Tickets: 019755 62963 - £7/£5
Tuesday 21 November at 7.30pm
North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Tickets: 0131 315 2151 - £8/£5
Thursday 23 and Friday 24 November at 7.30pm
Tramway, Glasgow
Tickets: 0845 330 3501 - £7/£4
