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The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer
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On Tour Autumn 2011
Fri 15 OctoberblanktexttttCove Burgh Hall Kilcreggan
Wed 20 Octoberblanktextmacrobert, Stirling
Fri 22 OctoberblanktexttttTrades Hall, Glasgow
Fri 29 OctoberblanktexttttByre @
Sat 30 OctoberblanktexttiByre @
Mon 1 NovemberblanktexiEden Court, Inverness
Thu 4 NovemberblanktexttThe Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
From 1780 a quintessential piece of Glasgow in 2010. In the Merchant City, Glasgow is booming but the American war is looming. The city’s wealth is dependent on American tobacco. Will the great port survive?
This pressing question is NOT addressed by Enoch Dalmellington, resident of Virginia St. He is more concerned about marrying off his dreich pious humourless daughter Euphemia, being able to afford his pew at the Tron Kirk and what to do about Mistress Zapata’s scurrilous predictions about Glasgow in 2008.
"Women will be attending university, the poor will all have water closets and tobacco smoking will be banned in public places..."
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The Sound Of My Voice
The Citizens Theatre presents the first stage adaptation of Ron Butlin’s award-winning novel, The Sound Of My Voice.
Morris Magellan is an executive who runs a biscuit company in Scotland. With a house in the suburbs, a nice wife and kids, he is the epitomy of 1980s Thatcherite values. Buckling under the pressure however, Morris is a chronic alcoholic and his life is falling apart.
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Tour: July - August 2011
In this modern staging of Shakespeare’s classic Scottish play, Macbeth is trapped by his own paranoia as his family, his friends and fate itself turn against him.
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Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Schools Project in association with RSAMD Dramaworks and North Highland Connections
October – November 2010
Romeo and Juliet are caught between their two feuding families whose enmity reflects the main theme of the play - the antithesis between love and hate. Destined to have their passion thwarted by duels, banishment and death, they follow a path from love at first sight to the ultimate sacrifice.
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Highland Harbours
The Comic Adventures of Para Handy
Captain Peter Macfarlane (aka Para Handy) and his ship SS Vital Spark ‘the smertest ship in the tred’ have been making Scots laugh for almost a hundred years.
"We put into Greenock for marmalade, and did we no’ stay three days…”
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About Open Book
Open Book is dedicated to connecting communities separated by geography, history and language through the arts, through the celebration of diversity and through the promotion of local cultures and approaches nationally and internationally.
Open Book was founded by Liz Carruthers, Kirsty Cochrane and John Cairns to tour the work of Scottish writers with a particular emphasis on making popular, accessible, entertaining theatre which would appeal to as wide an audience as possible.
The Company is committed to working with emerging artists, to promoting awareness of local cultures across Scotland and to developing links between arts organisations across different parts of Scotland. more