Please note some dates and performances may be subject to change
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'My crime wasn't doing something. My crime was being something. Being different in a way everyone else could see'.
Born into poverty in an isolated village in rural France, a boy grows up amongst hard men and women living hard and violent lives. Bullied relentlessly for being gay, this is the story of Eddy's struggle to understand who he is, who he might become, and of his fight to escape.
Written when he was just 21 and combining vivid storytelling with frank reflections on sexuality, class and power, this new stage adaptation of Édouard Louis's internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel, is filled with hope, love, lust and anger.
Duration: Approx 1hr 30mins
16+
(Contains explicit sexual references and frequent use of strong language)
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FAR FAR FROM YPRES 2018 TOUR
SATURDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER
7:30PM
TICKETS £15/£10 CONC.
Based on a Greentrax double album of WW1 songs, "Far, Far From Ypres", Ian McCalman wrote the script, linking the album's songs, and transferring the story to "the stage", where the audience follows a young Scot's terrifying journey to the Ypres trenches and back. His triumphs and disasters are illustrated, musically, by 35 recruiting, training, marching, trench, Music Hall songs and poems of the time. This highly acclaimed production filled the Glasgow Concert Hall, receiving a prolonged standing ovation, and described by the Festival Director as “brilliant”. Since then it has gone from strength to strength. The production shows large screen projection of photographs and images, throughout, and features a cast of 26 “folk singing stars”, including Barbara Dickson, Siobhan Miller, Dick Gaughan, Sangsters, Ian Bruce, Gary West and Ian McCalman, singing the songs of WW1, superbly linked by narrator, Iain Anderson. N.B. Possible cast changes for some shows.
"Powerfully reminds us of the horrors of war and the individuals and communities touched by it". (STV).
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ALY BAIN & PHIL CUNNINGHAM
20th SEPTEMBER
7:30PM
Tickets: £18/£16 conc.
What more can you say about these two stellar musicians, now embarking on their 31st year of working together. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham have established themselves as the epitome of excellence in the world of traditional music and have been described by Mike Russell as "probably the best traditional musicians you are ever likely to hear”. With their musical magic and quick-witted humour they will pull your emotional strings one moment and have you falling off the seat with laughter the next.
Image courtesy of Peter Vallance
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Macphail Theatre
Tuesday 2nd October
7:30PM
Tickets: £12, £5(Under 26) available from Macphail Centre or online
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/opera-highlights-the-macphail-centre-tickets/8474855?pl=scottishopera
In Autumn 2018, Scottish Opera is back on the road with Opera Highlights, taking four singers and a pianist to venues the length and breadth of the country for an entertaining evening of operatic treasures and great company.
In Daisy Evans’ inventive staging, she interprets a wonderfully engaging operatic playlist – including Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti – linked together with new compositions by Scottish Opera Composer in Residence Samuel Bordoli to reflect the emotional journey of the dreams, memories, fears and hopes of one whose heart has been broken.
Scottish Opera Emerging Artist 2018/19 Sofia Troncoso, Sarah Champion, Richard Pinkstone and Dawid Kimberg are joined by former Emerging Artist repetiteur Jonathon Swinard at the piano.
“A wonderful selection of music, superb vocalists, a magnificent pianist and a very clever story.” Audience member Opera Highlights 2017.
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BBC WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER
Doug Allan: Wild Images, Wild Life
October 12th at Macphail Theatre
Tickets £15
'Wildlife cameramen don’t come much more special than Doug Allan’ - Sir David Attenborough
Join multi-award winning wildlife cameraman Doug Allan for an evening of behind the scenes stories for all the family, with highlights from the most challenging assignments of his 35 years filming wildlife in the remotest places on Earth. Find out if snow leopards or leopard seals are the most scary; discover how to get close to the biggest fish in the sea and whether your eyeballs freeze at minus 50.
Born in Fife, Doug Allan spent seven years in Antarctica as a Scientist, research diver and photographer for the British Antarctic Survey, before changing direction to full time freelance filming in 1983.
Since then he has become one of the world’s best known and respected cameramen, specialising in natural history, expeditions and science documentaries. In his 35 year filming career, he's worked for the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and many others, filming for series including The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Ocean Giants, Operation Iceberg, Wild Cameramen at Work, and Brian Cox’s Forces of Nature.
This new presentation traces Doug’s personal journey as he discusses how he’s seen pollution and climate change affect the natural world.
Copies of Doug’s book Freeze Frame will be on sale, as well as his colour prints of polar bears, penguins and seals.
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Suitable for all ages
Running Times: 2 hours (inc 20 min interval and audience Q+A.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=2YKXUoBVAPY -
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SCOTT GIBSON
26th OCTOBER
7:30PM
£10/£8
Award-winning comic Scott Gibson was just 16 when he first tasted freedom and set off on a voyage of self-discovery. His destination? Kavos, of course. Where else?
Delivered in his breathlessly inimitable style, Gibson takes you on an epic odyssey that charts the choppy waters of youth. A blisteringly funny hour on the escapism and hedonism that travel promises, this is a story about friendship, love, pool parties, travel insurance and the Greek third-choice goalie.
Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2016.
“A big, bold, belter… riotously funny” «««« The Herald
“You’ll be howling throughout his set… gut-bustingly funny” ««««« Broadway Baby
Image by: Steve Ullathorne
https://www.seetickets.com/event/scott-gibson-anywhere-but-here/macphail-centre/1247898
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Ray Bradshaw
23rd November
7:30PM
£10/£8
1 in 6 people suffer from hearing loss.
2 of those people are Ray’s parents.
Full of hilarious, revealing tales about growing up with deaf parents, Deaf Comedy Fam presents a very first for comedy, as each show will be performed by Ray simultaneously in both spoken English and British Sign Language – which just so happens to be Ray’s first language.
Two-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist Bradshaw debuted Deaf Comedy Fam at Glasgow International Comedy Festival before moving to the Edinburgh Fringe for a critically acclaimed, sold out run – don’t miss the first ever comedy set to be spoken and signed by the comic themselves!
Adelaide Fringe Weekly Innovation Award 2018.
'Has a clear comedy gift' ★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News
‘Captivating, funny and sharply executed’ ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
https://www.seetickets.com/event/ray-bradshaw-deaf-comedy-fam/macphail-centre/1247911
‘Deaf Comedy Fam takes stand-up comedy into a new realm’ ★★★★★ Short Com
