DogDazeTheatre
Moray Council
Commerce House Annexe
South Street
ELGIN
IV30 1JE

Contact: Nick Fearne
Tel: 01343 557148
Email: nick.fearne@moray.gov.uk
 
DogDazeTheatre is a first venture into home grown Theatre in Education for Moray Council. An award from the Scottish Arts Council's Cultural Co-ordinator Project Fund enabled Moray Council to create the company to tour a stage version of Babette Cole's 'Dr Dog'. The production, which was supported by NHS Grampian, was a visually striking , fast moving and comic story that followed the attempts of Dr Dog to help the Gumboyle family to become a more healthy group of individuals - with some explosive consequences!

The 45 minute production toured Moray Primary Schools in March 2004. The target audience was P1 - 4. Dr Dog also had a number of public performances, including two sell-out shows at The Lemon Tree in Aberdeen. A second tour in September 2004 (with support from HI-Arts Producers Fund) visited Edinburgh (WHALE), Shetland, WYSIWYG and the Highlands.

Dr Dog was adapted for the stage by Nick Fearne, Arts Development Officer for Moray Council, and the show was directed by John Haswell.

Doctor Dog

Dogdazetheatre’s current production is ‘It’s A Wasteful Life’. The production has been commissioned by Waste Aware Moray and will play to Moray Primary Schools in March 2006.

'It's A Wasteful Life' - RECYCLING PLAY TOURS MORAY SCHOOLS

The Moray Council is taking the recycling message into schools with a specially commissioned play 'It's A Wasteful Life' touring Moray primary schools throughout March.

Presented by Dogdazetheatre, Moray Council's Theatre in Education Company, the play features professional actors and was developed as a means of getting the reduce, reuse, recycle message across to schoolchildren in an accessible and memorable manner. It was scripted by Nick Fearne of the Council's Arts Development Team, who wrote the successful 'Dr Dog' health promotion play which was well received in Moray schools in 2004. The production is Directed by Alan Cameron and the cast includes Sarah Haworth, Alan Ian Gray and Ailsa Hamilton. Music is by Tim Flood.

The producyion is sponsored SEPA and the Council's recycling partners: Smith Anderson (paper recycling), Corus (steel recycling) and O-I (glass recycling).

An education pack to complement the play has also been developed, containing further information and activities about reducing, reusing and recycling waste, giving teachers a lasting resource after the play has finished.
There will be two public performances of the play: a free performance at 11 am on Saturday the 11th March at Longmore Hall in Keith (as part of the Wastebusters Spring Greens Festival) and a performance at 6.30 pm on Thursday the 16th of March at the Warehouse Theatre in Lossiemouth (tickets £2). For more details, please call 01343 814004.

For further details on the production contact Nick Fearne, Arts Development Officer, Moray Council, 01343 557148 nick.fearne@moray.gov.uk

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