wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 5
Monday 25 May
7pm
Tarts and Crafts, Balmedie
Join us on our flights of fancy, and prepare to have your feathers ruffled
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Tuesday 26 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
T.S. Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield, Jingling Geordie Keith Armstrong, and John
Mackie's Infinite Equation #2
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Wednesday 27 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Poems and songs on the theme of leaving and returning home
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Thursday 28 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Makar Poets breeze into Aberdeen
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Friday 29 May
7.30pm
Crown Terrace Methodist Church, Aberdeen
An Aberdeen Writers' Circle bi-annual event
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Saturday 30 May
1pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
The author will be signing copies of his new book
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Saturday 30 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Let Hitler do his worst — Aberdeen's fishwives show him they have the guts
to cope
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Sunday 31 May
3pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Koo Press Poetry Roadshow with Catriona Yule, Haworth Hodgkinson and Douglas W. Gray
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Guts
Let Hitler do his worst — Aberdeen's fishwives show him they have the guts
to cope
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Saturday 30 May 2009
7.30pm – 9.45pm
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Aberdeen Arts Centre [Map]
Admission £9 (concessions £7)
Tickets available from
Aberdeen Box Office (01224 641122)
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Georgie's sister is too caring, her son is too fly and her niece is too naïve
for their own good. But, hey — they're family and you have to put up with
them. Don't you? Muriel's young daughter is turning into a tart and her aged mother
is sex-mad. But, hey — there's a war on and you have to allow some licence.
Don't you? Ronnie has lost his last chance of love and Jim has lost his marbles.
But, hey — that's life. Isn't it? Broad comedy and a little touch of tragedy
combine in this memorable picture of Aberdeen life.
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Charles Barron has been writing plays for over 50 years and had more than
100 of them produced on stage. They vary in style from sophisticated comedies of
manners to broad farce and include such diverse genre as opera libretti, and scripts
for musicals, son-et-lumieres, pantomimes and children's plays. Amang the Craws
is now a recommended text in Scottish secondary schools and Bairns 'n' Feels
was recently published by Hodder Gibson in an anthology. His site-specific plays
have been performed in castles, gardens, restaurants, cathedrals and a bus.
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Cast and company
The director is Roddy Begg. Roddy is the director and co-founder of Fleeman Productions,
a company founded with the aim of touring plays written in the Doric dialect and
set in the North-East of Scotland, particularly in order to bring such relevant
drama to smaller rural venues.
The actors are Jill Hay (Lizzie), Yvonne Morton (Georgie), Sarah Alexander (Christine),
Liz Loggie (Chrissie), Sheila Reid (Muriel), Fiona Murray (Angelica), Scott Neish
(Dod), Alistair Harvey (Jim) and Steve Hamer (Ronnie).
Technical staff are Tish Howard, Torquil Buxton and Mike Cooper.
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Guts is also touring to Midmar, Johnshaven, New Deer, Lossiemouth, Kemnay,
Aboyne, Udny Green and Inverurie. See
Fleeman Productions
for details.
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