What's On
Summer Autumn 2008 Programme (6.2 MB PDF)
2008
Friday 27 June 7.30pm
Stagecraft School of Dancing : Dance Show
These ‘little darlings’ are the youngest group of dancers taking part in the 2008 children’s revue.
Tickets £10 [£8 Concs]
Tuesday, July 8 7:30pm
Scottish Ballet
Summer Season 2008
at Reid Hall, Forfar
Bringing together sections from five entrancing pieces including multi award-winning choreographer Stephen Petronio's high octane Ride The Beast, set to the soaring sound of Radiohead; Aria, a delicate and reflective duet from Krzysztof Pastor’s exuberant In Light and Shadow, performed to part of Bach's famous Goldberg Variations; Othello, a powerful dance drama based on the Shakespeare play and choreographed by Scottish Ballet's founding director Peter Darrell, as well as premiering a brand new work choreographed by Scottish Ballet Soloist Diana Loosmore, featuring music by the eastern European influenced ensemble Basquiat Strings.
From the city to your doorstep, the Company moves out on tour to get up-close-and personal with audiences throughout Scotland. Such intimate settings for this powerful repertoire will have you wrapped up in an evening of breathtaking entertainment.
Tickets £8.00 - £10.00
Buy onlineTuesday 22 July 7.30pm
Ronnie Coburn’s Breath of Scotland
with special guests The Tartan Lads
Come along to first of the 2008 Breath of Scotland shows and enjoy the best of traditional Scottish variety theatre with the inimitable Ronnie Coburn. The cast joining in the fun will be from Jimmy MacWilliams, Margaret Mather, Betty Melville, John Crawford, The Ragamuffins, and the Sandra Wright Dancers.
Tickets £10 [groups of 5 or more £8 per ticket]
Tuesday 29 July 7.30pm
Ronnie Coburn’s Breath of Scotland
with special guests The Alexander Brothers
The 2008 Breath of Scotland shows continue with Ronnie bringing you the very best of traditional Scottish variety theatre. The cast joining in the fun will be from Jimmy MacWilliams, Margaret Mather, Betty Melville, John Crawford, The Ragamuffins, and the Sandra Wright Dancers.
Tickets £10 [groups of 5 or more £8 per ticket]
Wednesday 30 July 7.30pm
Monsters
West Lothian Youth Theatre, Salmagundi Training Company
in partnership with the Aberdeen International Youth Festival
Monsters is set in Livingston in 2022, in the kind of future that we hope will never happen in Scotland, but which is reality for far too many children and young people all over the world.
In the Bathgate Hills a civil war rages between the Monster’s Militia and the British Government Army. Stephan’s gang has been hiding out in a disused hall and they don't know why or how the war started. Roxy and her gang of escaped child soldiers find them. She has been fighting for 4 years, since she was 12 and has finally found her chance to escape. She can’t afford to let Stephan and his gang of innocents get in her way. But the fighting is getting closer and the Monster Army want their soldiers back...
Tickets £7 [£5 Concs]
Saturday 2 August 7.30pm
Georgia Dance Theatre Legacy
and Cie Ph/f/ase from Belgium
in partnership with the Aberdeen International Youth Festival
Be captivated and inspired by this programme of energetic, daring and entertaining dance, from top international young dance companies.
Tickets £7 [£5 Concs]
Tuesday 5 August 7.30pm
Ronnie Coburn’s Breath of Scotland
with special guests The Tartan Lads
Enjoy the best of traditional Scottish variety theatre with the inimitable Ronnie Coburn. The cast joining in the fun will be from Jimmy MacWilliams, Margaret Mather, Betty Melville, John Crawford, The Ragamuffins, and the Sandra Wright Dancers.
Tickets £10 [groups of 5 or more £8 per ticket]
Wednesday 6 August 7.30pm
Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Hong Kong
in partnership with the Aberdeen International Youth Festival
A wonderful mixed programme of popular classics and famous Chinese melodies including; Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite; Dance of the Yao Tribe, Plum Blossom in the Snow
Tickets £7 [£5 Concs]
Friday 8 August 7.30pm
The MacDonald Brothers
The MacDonald brothers have come a distance since appearing on the X-Factor in 2006 where they finished fourth overall and came first in the groups section. Since leaving the X-Factor The MacDonald Brothers have signed with an independent Scottish record label, The Music Kitchen, who have helped raise them to become one of Scotland’s most recognised bands of the present day.
In 2007 the boys enjoyed a sell out Scottish tour and they have just finished touring with Westlife on their UK tour and are now embarking on their 2008 Scottish summer tour before heading back to the studio to work on their fourth album.
Tickets £12 [£10 Concs]
Tuesday 12 August 7.30pm
Ronnie Coburn’s Breath of Scotland
with special guests The Alexander Brothers
Come along to the last of the 2008 Breath of Scotland shows and enjoy the best of traditional Scottish variety theatre with the inimitable Ronnie Coburn. The cast joining in the fun will be from Jimmy MacWilliams, Margaret Mather, Betty Melville, John Crawford The Ragamuffins, and the Sandra Wright Dancers.
Tickets £10 [groups of 5 or more £8 per ticket]
Wednesday 17 September 7.30pm
Over the Rainbow - The Eva Cassidy Story
Starring Faye Tozer
Over the Rainbow is a compelling musical which tells the story of this legendary artist, following Eva’s life through dramatic scenes and stunning live renditions of her music including a haunting interpretation of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’.
The show follows her life from the age of 10 growing up in a musical family, to her first professional gig aged 18 at the Wild West World theme park, a rabble-rousing rendition and recording at Blues Alley with Chuck Brown and culminating in her poignant and tragic death at just 33.
A talented and world-class cast and musicians recreate her original arrangements and recordings which have received accolades from Mick Fleetwood and Sting and tributes from Nora Jones, Katie Melua and Chris De Burgh. The show pays a genuine and heartfelt tribute to a true artist who wanted nothing more than to create beautiful music. From its first performance in 2004, Over the Rainbow, has moved people immensely with sell-out performances and standing ovations throughout the UK.
Tickets £16 [£14 Concs]
Tuesday 23 September - Saturday 27 September 7.30pm plus Saturday matinee 2pm
Les Miserables
presented by Angus Musical Youth Theatre
The musical Les Miserables is a multi-award winning adaptation of Victor Hugo’s humanitarian classic about one man’s determined survival in the face of relentless persecution and the triumph of the human spirit.
Set amidst the social and political struggles of nineteenth century France, Les Miserables sweeps its audience through a tale of passion and destruction against a backdrop of a nation in the grip of revolution.
Tickets £10 Matinee £8
Tuesday 30 September 10.15am & 1.30pm
One Giant Leap
A co-production between Wee Stories and the National Theatre of Scotland
How do we know that the Earth is round? How do we know that the Earth moves round the Sun? How do we know that our sun is only one of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy and that the Milky Way is only one of over a hundred billion galaxies in the Universe. How do we know there are more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all of the beaches on the planet Earth? How do we know all this is true? Where is the evidence?
The truth is out there, it always was, we just couldn’t see it. Then one day, one man took one giant leap and the rest, as they say, is history - when the world began to move there was no turning back.
One giant leap tells the epic tale of Mankind’s struggle to get its head round the Universe, the show is an illuminating, funny, moving, and deeply rewarding theatrical event for everyone, accessible to the broadest possible multi-generational audience.
Tickets £4
Friday 17 October 7.30pm
Simon Yates : Beyond the Void
Simon is one of the most famous and accomplished exploratory mountaineers of his time. After the harrowing events of his and Joe Simpson’s first ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985 during which Simon was forced to take the decision to cut Joe’s rope after he had fallen in a crevasse (as recounted in the bestselling book and BAFTA award-winning film ‘Touching the Void’) Simon carried on to climb in some of the most remote and rarely explored mountain ranges of the world.
In this lecture Simon will take a humorous and philosophical look at some of the more notable experiences over his years as a mountaineer, accompanied by a stunning selection of images collected during his travels.
Tickets £14 [£12 Concs]
