Welcome to the Fifth Garioch Theatre Festival
18th - 29th June 2009 Inverurie
An exciting mix of workshops, professional theatre, youth theatre and exhibitions.
‘Dizzy new heights for theatre festival’
‘Something for everyone at Garioch Theatre Festival’
This year's festival will include a new piece by Aberdeenshire Youth Theatre (MSD) for Homecoming year, ‘Our Scotland’, Folding Theatre Company’s ‘Briar Rose’, Fringe First winners The Paper Birds with ‘In A Thousand Pieces’ and for Scotframe’s Community Weekend, a family ceilidh, dance workshops, community day (a chance for young people to get together and create some theatre in one day), Fleeman Productions’ ‘Guts’, and open-air theatre at Aden Country Park.
Provisional Programme 2009
18th – 20th June Our Scotland
18th onwards Photography Exhibition
21st June Briar Rose
22nd June In a Thousand Pieces
23rd June Dance Workshop 1
25th June Pint & A Piece of Theatre
26th June Ceilidh
27th June Community Day
27th June Guts
28th June At Aden
28th June Dance Workshop 2
GTF 2008
'Lottie'
Last year's Festival included the Garidge Theatre with Mitchell School of Drama performing a new work based on the records of the Poorhouses of the North-East - 'Lottie'.
There also was a professional show for children - "Jabberwocky", a further professional production from Cultural Connections and two new theatre pieces. There was Puppetry and Physical/Mime workshops, a performance featuring 'Oceans 3', plus a Community Open Day and Art and Heritage Exhibitions.
What the press said about previous productions:
'First class production values, set, lighting, costumes and music make these productions an absolute must' (2006)
'Once again excellently illustrated the splendid performance skills of this talented bunch of youngsters' (2006)
"MSD got everything right about this production...."
"a tour de force of stage characterisation"
