Local Artist Showcase

An Lanntair - August 2008 (Details to be confirmed)

This is the next of our highly successful showcase events in collaboration with Honcho Productions. This showcase will feature short contemporary theatre pieces, stand up comedy, storytelling, and local contemporary musicians and dancers.

Kinloch....Somewhere
By Eic John MacDonald

Kinloch.....Somewhere is an acerbic black comedy which examines current notions of celebrity culture, and our preoccupation with "success". The play follows the stories and exploits of an ageing actor who recounts to us in varying shades of comedy from the confines of his rural Hebridean Bed and Breakfast where he is unfortunately stuck for the night.

This provoking little show is touring in Scotland from the 23rd of February to the 14th of March 2009. The premiere performances are in An Lanntair on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st February 2009 at 8pm.

Na Daoine
By Angus Peter Campbell

Na Daoine is a new play which reflects the social and political issues around the formation of the Free Church in the Western Isles in the 1840's. The play will reflect on the conditions and experiences of the people in the islands at that time when the importance of their faith took precedence.

The play is being commisioned from award winning Gaelic writer Angus Pater Campbell and is being developed in collaboration with international physical theatre director John Wright (of Told by an Idiot) and a group of Theatre Hebrides actors. The collaborating actors are David Walker, Rod Morison, Muriel Ann Macleod and Catriona Lexy Campbell.

The first development workshops for Na Daoine took place in May and a second workshop programme is planned for September 2008. The production and National tour of the work is planned for Summer 2009.

The Na Daoine development project is funded by the Scottish Arts Council, GMS, CNAG, CNES and HIE Innes Gall.