WORLD-class drama comes to the region next month when the National Theatre of Scotland’s “best-loved and most widely-travelled” of all heroines takes to the stage.
As part of a Scotland-wide tour, the National Theatre of Scotland brings The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart to Newton Stewart, Lockerbie and Sanquhar from 7 to 9 June.
The event is brought to the region by Dumfries and Galloway Arts Live, a brand new touring project run by the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival which aims to bring quality live performances to venues across the region all year round.
Programme director, Peter Renwick, said: “Thanks to the collaboration with a really great range of partners we have developed an excellent and varied theatre programme that not only reflects the interests of the promoters and has a wide appeal to Dumfries and Galloway audiences but also includes a great children and young people’s programme.
“We are looking forward to bringing a year-round programme of live performance and developing new partnerships with venues and promoters and would urge everyone to take a look at our website, www.dgartslive.org.uk, to find out what’s coming to a stage near them.”
Past performances of Prudencia have sold out in Dumfries and Galloway, across Scotland, the UK and internationally, and the show has been described as an “incredibly inventive and entertaining piece of anarchic theatre, live music and strange goings-on…”
Peter added: “It is brilliant to welcome back to the region this sell-out National Theatre of Scotland hit. The production came to the festival three years ago any many people were left disappointed when it sold out quickly.
“This is a welcome opportunity to bring Prudencia back to the region’s audiences.”
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart takes theatre into pubs and other unlikely venues, where stories are told, re-told, sung and passed on. Audiences are invited to share a lock-in with the NTS’s company of actors and musicians and to indulge in an evening of supernatural storytelling, music and theatre inspired by the Border Ballads, Robert Burns and the poems of Robert Service.
One wintry morning Prudencia Hart, an uptight academic, sets off to attend a conference in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. As the snow begins to fall, little does she know who or what awaits her there. Prudencia’s dream-like journey of self-discovery unfolds among and around the audience.
With a rollicking text by David Greig, barnstorming live music; and a “terrific, inventive sense of fun…” (The Scotsman), this is the lock-in to end all lock-ins.
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart shows at the McMillan Hall, Newton Stewart, on 7 June; Lockerbie Town Hall on 8 June; and Sanquhar Town Hall on 9 June. All performances begin at 7.30pm and, because the performance takes place in a pub setting, there will be a licensed bar.
Tickets are available from the Midsteeple Box Office, Dumfries, Tel: 01387 253383.
The Arts Live programme continues with tours booked from the likes of Rapture Theatre, Ludens Ensemble, Ishbel McFarlane, Fire Exit Theatre and Company of Wolves.
