Highland Festival
The Castle
Inverness
IV2 3EG
Telephone – 01463 719000
Fax – 01463 716777
E-mail – info@highlandfestival.org.uk
Website – www.highland-festival.co.uk
Artistic Director – Alastair McDonald
Formed - 1996
Background/Aims
With the establishment of theatrecollective @ highland, the Highland Festival aims to~
1. Provide a new platform for the performing arts community of the area in all its diversity
2. Produce new work delivered initially during the Highland Festival
3. Showcase the work elsewhere
4. Offer training opportunities
5. Develop new audiences
theatre collective @ highland is delivering these aims through
* Producing new accessible work
* Celebrating the Highland Diaspora
* Complementing and supporting the work of and collaborating with existing Highland based companies
Forthcoming Productions
June 2003
Back Wave
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Recent Productions
2002
Toured Wed 21 Aug - Sat 7 Sep
The Accidental Death of an Accordionist
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Glengirnie’s holding its grand ceilidh and the village is out in force. MC for the evening John Angus is loosening up his vocal chords with a couple of drams.
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Aly the accordionist and the band have promised not to be late, the bar’s well stocked and Jean’s even sold a ticket to the Laird. But behind the scenes, there’s trouble brewing’! Take your partner for the first dance but watch your back, ‘cos just below the surface of this Highland idyll lurks deceit, jealousy and bloody revenge!
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The Wedding
Toured May, June and August
Two families - a butchers and a bakers - not so much a modern day Romeo and Juliet, more a comedy of errors. . .
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There'll be laughter, tears, the odd speech or five - and pies! An evening of nuptial reality - where bakers eat humble pie and butchers put the knife in. . . But it's not all doom and gloom for Archie and his best man at this two ring circus. Surely there'll be a happy ending 'cos. . . this time it's not love - no, this time it's the real thing!
2001
The Accidental Death of an Accordionist
Toured 13 dates in Highlands and Edinburgh Fringe.
2000
Hard Pressed Toured 14 dates in Highlands
The fact and fantasy surrounding the reputed aphrodisiac properties of the Islay Dunlop Cheddar are the inspiration for this new, music driven Highland comedy. The birth rate on the West coast Island of Tost is up again. Can it really be the cheese or is it the whisky that’s caused all these babies? There are plans to re-brand the Island and the campaign’s being run by some big cheese PR Company from the mainland. What could possibly go wrong? In a tribute to love, lust, romance, whisky and cheese, the Highland Festival’s specially formed performance company romp through this full bodied, soft hearted comedy.
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