THEATRE HEBRIDES

c/o An Lanntair
Kenneth Street
Stornoway
Isle of Lewis
HS1 2DS

Telephone - 01851 701193
E-mail - muriel@theatrehebrides.com
Web - www.theatrehebrides.com 
Artistic Director - Muriel Ann Macleod

Background/Aims

Theatre Hebrides is a professional theatre company based in Stornoway. The Company commissions and produces theatre in Gaelic and English inspired by Western Isles traditional and contemporary cultures. The company performs locally, tours nationally and provides film and theatre workshop programmes in the community.

Workshop projects in 2006/7 include:

Video Heb 2006–2007
A video workshop programme for young people in Lewis restarting in Nov 2006.

Acting workshops 
Tuesday evenings in An Lanntair, Sept / Oct 2006 contemporary acting workshops with Muriel Ann Macleod and Rod Morison

Artsplay Hebrides
a 2-year workshop project in Western Isles nurseries from September 2006

Playwrights group
Theatre Hebrides in collaboration with the Traverse Theatre are initiating a playwrights group meeting bi - monthly in An Lanntair.

Contact Theatre Hebrides for information on any of these projects.

Theatre projects being developed for 2007- 2008 include:

Kinloch…... Somewhere…. is an acerbic black comedy which examines current notions of celebrity culture, images of contemporary Scotland in film and television and our preoccupation with “success”. A one man show written by Eric John Macdonald.

Spàrr (à Steòrnabhagh a Bhaile Ghobhainn) 2007 is a celebration of shipbuilding in Lewis and in Govan through theatre and film. Theatre Hebrides will work in collaboration with Fablevision to create this bi-lingual community play in Stornoway and Govan.

The Sked Crew by Ian Stephen is a perspective on women’s lives as gutters and packers in the Herring Industry in Britain at the start of the 20th century. This project will go into development with the National Theatre of Scotland in November in Glasgow with a view to production in 2007.

Na Daoine (The Men) is a Playwrights Commission from award winning Gaelic writer Angus Peter Campbell which is being developed in collaboration with John Wright of Told by and Idiot (London). Na Doaine focuses on the social and political issues around the formation on the Free Church in the Western Isles in the 1840’s.

Callanish Stoned

Previous Projects

Metagama toured in autumn 2004.
A new bi-lingual play reflecting emigration from Lewis in the 1920's. Metagama employs theatre, music and multimedia and will tour to Ireland, Canada and the USA. 
 
Voice Hebrides 2003
A workshop festival of devotional song from around the world to be held in Lewis.

Real Heb (provisional title)
A pilot video project with young adults in Stornoway.

Am Bradan (River of Life) - September 2003
A bi-lingual (Gaelic / English) play for children. The play was created in Stornoway and toured to primary aged children throughout the Western Isles, undertaking school and community performances.

Am Bradan employs puppetry, music and theatrical illusion to tell of the exploits of a young salmon as he undertakes the long journey from the river of his birth out to sea, and of his eventual return several years, and thousands of miles later. The characters and people that he meets tell of great mythological adventures from the core of Western Isles folklore and Celtic tradition. Written by Eric John Macdonald, with puppet design and direction by Muriel Ann Macleod, Am Bradan celebrates the Western Isles natural environment and ecology in an accessible and humorous way employing large scale arm and rod puppets.

An Clo Mor
Theatre Hebrides was set up following the impact of Theatre Highland’s production An Clo Mor, a celebration in theatre and multimedia of the Harris Tweed Industry in the Western Isles.

Theatre Hebrides are also planning community workshops in drama, reminiscence theatre and Arts & Crafts.

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