Performances

FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS

BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS – May/July 2012

Bank of Scotland Imaginate Children’s Festival and a 20 date Highlands and Islands Tour

A Co-production with Howden Park Centre

By the Seat of Your Pants - Tim Licata, Ian Cameron and David Walshe

DATES:

Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival

8^th/ 9^th May – North Edinburgh Arts Centre (NEAC)

Times       8^th May – 10.30am and 1.30pm/     9^th May – 10.30

11^th – 13^th May – Traverse Theatre

Times       11^th May – 7pm/            12^th May – 7pm/13^th May – 1.30pm and 3.30pm

Tickets: £10 (family/ child discounts available)

0131 228 1404// www.traverse.co.uk

16^th May – Finzean Hall, Banchory

Time: 7pm – Tickets: £8/6 (£20 Family of 4)

01330 850674// www.wegottickets.com

17^th May – Haddo House, Methlick

Time: 7pm – Tickets: £9/7 (£25 Family of 4)

0844 493 2179// www.nts.org.uk/events

18^th May – Deskford Community Centre, Deskford

Time: 7.30pm – Tickets: £8/6

www.wegottickets.com

19^th May – Universal Hall, Findhorn

Time: 4pm – Tickets: £7/6 (£5 U16′s)

01309 690110 // www.wegottickets.com

(in person at The Phoenix Stores, Findhorn)

22^nd May – SEALL at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat (Isle of Skye)

Time: 7.30pm

Tickets: Adults £7, Members £6, Students £4, Young People £3, Under 10s and Season tickets free

01471 844207 // www.seall.co.uk

24^th/ 25^thMay – Mallaig and Morar Community Centre, Mallaig

Time: 24^th May 8pm/ 25^th May 11am

Tickets: £6/4 – 01687 460 380

27^th and 28^th May – Dumfries and Galloway Festival

Times       27^th May – 7pm – Camphill Community Hall, Loch Arthur

28^th May – 7pm – New Cample Farm, Closeburn

Tickets: £4 – 01387 253 383 // www.dgartsfestival.org.uk

6^th June – Craignish Hall, Ardfern

Time: 6pm – Tickets: £5/3

01852 500 746 // www.craignishvillagehall.org.uk

7^th June – Mull Theatre, Druimfin

Times: 7.30pm – Tickets: £6/4

01688 302 828 // www.mulltheatre.com

8^th June – Easdale Island Hall

Times: 18.30 – Tickets: £5

arts.admin@easdale.org // www.easdaleislandhall.org

10^th June – Bowmore Hall, Islay

Times: 4pm – Tickets £3

toddsislay@tiscali.co.uk // www.argyllcommunities.org/bowmorehall

16^th June – Carinish Village Hall, North Uist

Time: 7pm – Tickets: £7/4 (under sixteens)

01876 580 226 // grj@hebrides.net

18^th June – Bernera Community Hall, Breaclete

Time: 7.30pm – Tickets: £8/6/4 (child) – £20 (Family)

01851 612 411 // tom.macdonald@btopenworld.com

19^th June – Leverburgh Village Hall, Leverburgh

Time: 7.30pm – Tickets: £6/4 (child)/ £12 family

01859 520 746 // www.wegottickets.com

20^th June – Clan Macquarrie Community Centre, Lewis (Borve)

Time: 19.30 – Tickets: £8/6/4

01851 850397 // (www.borvehall.com) www.wegottickets.com

23^rd – 29^th June – St Magnus International Festival, Orkney

(Arts Theatre, Kirkwall; Isle of Westray; Isle of Hoy)

Times:          Saturday 23^rd June – 10.30 & 13.30, Arts Theatre, Kirkwall

Monday 25^th June – 19.30, Westray Community Hall, Isle of Westray

Wednesday 27^th June – Kirkwall – Schools’ performance only (SOLD OUT)

Friday 29^th June – 20.00, Gable End Theatre, Isle of Hoy

Tickets: £8/6 – 01856 871 170 // www.stmagnusfestival.com

29^th June – Gable End Theatre, Hoy

Time: 8pm – Tickets: tbc (on the door)

01856 701 301 // www.stmagnusfestival.com

1^st July – Garioch Theatre Festival, Inverurie

Time: 3pm – Tickets: £8/6

01467 621 861 (Alternatively Strachans Newagents)// www.gariochtheatrefestival.org.uk

PRODUCTIONS AVAILABLE FOR TOURING

A CLEAN SWEEP

Directed by Magdalena Schamberger

Music by Andrew Cruickshank

In this brilliant blend of theatre clowning, dance and visual storytelling, Tim Licata and Ian Cameron explore the most ordinary and make it … extraordinary!

Performed by Ian Cameron & Tim Licata

Two men try to survive in an anarchic world of brooms, dust brushes, chimney brushes, scrub brushes, clothes brushes, toothbrushes and hairbrushes, doing anything but cleaning up.

Household chores will never seem the same again!

(For audiences of all ages – from 7 years)

Running time: 1 hour – no interval.

A Clean Sweep brings a taste of European theatre clowning to audiences of all ages.  In today’s world where everybody tries to be correct, successful and perfect, Walt and Dustin are different.  ‘Keepers of the Dust,’ they live in an absurd world full of brooms and brushes.  They try their very best to understand and control this world.  They fail – and in their generosity share their failure with the audience.  As a piece of visual theatre, we learn about the two characters through their physicality, actions and use of props and objects rather than a linear story.  In A Clean Sweep Dustin and Walt will share their dreams, passions, obsessions and above all their humanity.

Edinburgh based Plutôt la Vie was founded in 2003 by Tim Licata, Ian Cameron and Clark Crystal with a desire to create imaginative, visually driven performances.  A Clean Sweep was developed with the support of the Scottish Arts Council, Dance Base National Centre for Dance and the Brunton Theatre.

“…blessedly simple and uncluttered, the use of brush motifs is endlessly inventive, …the glorious chuckles of the children in the audience are a delight to hear, with the belly-laughter of the grown-ups not far behind.” - The Scotsman

“Classic double-act stuff… with roots in Beckettian vaudeville…” - The Herald

“Outstanding. Very funny.  Clowning at its absolute very best. Tim Licata and Ian Cameron are brilliant …if you don’t have a child, borrow somebody else’s. Go and see this lovely clowning.” - EdinburghGuide.com – Edinburgh Fringe

“A wordless humour fills the stage as we learn to watch the pair’s eyes, the tilt of a shoulder, the angle of a leg.  Plutôt la Vie’s clowns have disarming charm…” Edinburghguide.com

“…their own unique blend of theatrical clowning.  Top-notch acting…” - Edinburgh Fringe, Scotsman.com

FIRST YOU’RE BORN

A Byre Theatre and Plutôt la Vie Co-Production

Directed by Tim Licata

Design by Karen Tennent

Lighting by Lizzie Powell

Music by Andrew Cruickshank

Performed by Natalie Bennett   Ian Cameron   Richard Conlon   Mary Gapinski   Sean Hay   Anita Vettesse

The Byre Theatre & Plutôt la Vie present the British Première of First You’re Born (1999 Reumert Award Winner), a deliciously absurd romantic comedy by Danish playwright Line Knutzon, one of Scandinavia’s most innovative and acclaimed contemporary dramatists.

A Romantic Comedy by Line Knutzon

First You’re Born follows six social misfits whose lives change unexpectedly as they stumble out of their apartments… and into each other: Axel and Bimsy love each other but split up on a whim; Viktor is one big headache; agoraphobic sisters Tis and Lis consider a trip to the post-box a major expedition and Tudeberg’s main asset is his ability to clean.

A comedy about chaos, loneliness, love and the emotional threads which tie us all together, First You’re Born is Plutôt La Vie’s second touring production following the highly acclaimed A Clean Sweep. “Innovative theatre that defies classification” The Sunday Times

- ‘Seinfeld mixed with Dr Seuss’