Birds of Paradise Theatre Company presents

CLUTTER KEEPS COMPANY by Davey Anderson

It's a school night... your mum's at work and your dad's away. Your sister is supposed to be looking after you. Instead she's wearing bright red lipstick and a tartan miniskirt. And you? You're tucked up in bed, with a tape cassette under the pillow, dreaming of jellyfish...or are you?

The shows are in town. Scream if you want to go faster!

Birds of Paradise returns with a bittersweet comedy thriller about running away from an unholy mess and plunging into utter chaos!

Clutter Keeps Company is written by the acclaimed playwright, Davey Anderson, whose credits include NTS's Black Watch, Architecting, Rupture and Be Near Me. Anderson is a past winner of an Arches New Director's Award. He is also behind the successful Liar, winner of a CATS award in 2009 for Best Show for Children and Young People.

Suitable for young people aged 12 years and upwards.

All performances are surtitled and audio description is embedded within the text.

Catherine Wheels Theatre Comapny presents Pobby and Dingan, a heartbreaking and
beautiful contemporary tale about the possibility of dreams, the preciousness of hope
and how, sometimes, we have to believe in the impossible.

This show is open to all. Youth Theatre groups are particularly encouraged to see the show.

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Liminal Theatre is proud to announce the Scottish premiere of it's internationally successful

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

The Play

East of the Sun and West of the Moon combines Bunraku style, live hand puppets and onstage actors who interact in a dynamic form of movement theatre. 

East of the Sun and West of the Moon is the epic story of a young girl called Bridgette who causes the near destruction of her town when she breaks her promise to a frog.  To save her home and her village she must undertake a perilous journey to a far away land, rescue the prince from a troll princess and unlock the meaning of life.

 "This experimental theatre piece is anything but traditional.  The combination of movement, acting, music and puppetry contributes to a graceful, harmonious setti...All the performers, actors and puppeteers alike, are exceptional."

                                                                                       The Tower Light, Baltimore

The Director

Playwright Joel Mason directs his magical play for the 7^th time since its first production in the US in 1997. Joel is an actor, director, fight choreographer and playwright with work credits in the US, Hungary, Ireland, Belgium, South Korea and Scotland. 

As Artistic Director of Liminal Theatre, with the creation of East of the Sun and West of the Moon Joel uses experimental performance techniques and elements of ritual to explore the cultural roots of local communities. Other credits include From Failing Hands for Collusion Theatre in Glasgow and Twin Grandchildren for the youth theatre at Macrobert Theatre in Stirling, Scotland in collaboration with Mashirika Theatre in Kagali, Rwanda.

In 2006, at the age of 45, Joel was diagnosed with Parkinson's in the same week that he and his wife found out that they were expecting their first child. Since then he has become a board member for the Edinburgh Parkinson's Society and has set up an Edinburgh group for young people diagnosed with the disease.

Performing at the Roxy Art House,

2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU

Performances: 12,13 & 19,20 March

For information on group bookings and tailor made workshops:

Liz Strange, Co-Producer

liminaltheatre@hotmail.co.uk

07974 720 346

Sponsored by ScottishPower, supported by Determined to Succeed, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council's Arts Education Team, presents:

TRANSFORM ABERDEEN: The Cabaret of Impossible Dreams

A Major Theatre Education Project

The National Theatre of Scotland is delighted to be returning to Aberdeen with Transform Aberdeen - a major theatre education project developed in partnership with Aberdeen City Council's Arts Education Team and created with over 120 Dyce Academy students and local community members. Following an exciting programme of workshops at Dyce Academy from January 2010, Transform Aberdeen will culminate in a major public theatre event entitled The Cabaret of Impossible Dreams. Performances will take place at the Forum in Aberdeen from 17^th to 19^th March 2010.

Transform Aberdeen: The Cabaret of Impossible Dreams is directed by Paddy Cunneen, the award-winning theatre director, playwright and composer. Paddy Cunneen is leading the project with a team of professional theatre artists from the National Theatre of Scotland including Jen Edgar as Movement Specialist, Ailie Cohen as Puppetry Specialist, Lewis Hetherington as Creative Writing Specialist, Kenny Miller as Designer, Kate Bonney as Lighting Designer and Dave Martin as Sound Designer.

The Cabaret of Impossible Dreams explores the weird and wonderful world between sleep and wakefulness using a combination of music, puppetry, animation, movement and text.

Set in the decadent surroundings of The Forum in Aberdeen, The Cabaret of Impossible Dreams delves into the subconscious territory of this mysterious building to uncover stories, songs and dreams from the past and present.

Colourful characters, puppets and haunting songs will emerge from the shadows, coming to life for this magical spectacle.

Directed by Paddy Cunneen and created with over 120 Dyce Academy students and the local community, The Cabaret of Impossible Dreams is an enchanting National Theatre of Scotland event not to be missed.

Annette Murray, Arts Education Co-ordinator, Aberdeen City Council, said:

"Aberdeen City Council is thrilled to be hosting Transform. The learning opportunities afforded by the creation of a brand new piece of work and all the mechanics of its production, epitomises everything we look to achieve in arts education. The skills and experience gained (performance-based or otherwise) will remain with participants for years to come."

Heather McDonald, Group Sponsorship's Manager, ScottishPower, said:

"ScottishPower is delighted to be involved with Transform.  Our community programmes are focused on helping young people make the transition from school or unemployment into work and we recognise that theatre is a wonderful tool for re-engaging young people, helping improve their motivation and developing skills that are important in the world of work."

Determined to Succeed is delighted to support Transform. Transform works by engaging, inspiring and empowering the whole community by creating memorable and innovative theatre which exposes the participants to all aspects of theatre-making and event management. Working with a team of enterprising, real-world, theatre professionals, participants demonstrate a can-do, will-do attitude, allowing them to further develop their skills for learning, life and work and deliver a successful performance.

Listings:           The Cabaret of Impossible Dreams

Venue:              The Forum, 3 Skene Terrace, Aberdeen, AB10 1RN

Dates:               17^th - 19^th March 2010

Times:                          Evenings: 7.30pm

                        Afternoons: Thursday 18^th March, 4pm

       Friday 19^th March, 2pm

Signed performance: Thursday 18^th March, 7.30pm

Tickets:             Free but advance booking is required. Tickets are available from

Aberdeen Box Office, Tel: 01224 641122.

Notes to Editors

Transform is a major collaborative education project between National Theatre of Scotland Learn, ScottishPower and the Scottish Government's Determined to Succeed programme that allows schools and communities to transform their approaches to learning.  By bringing schools together with theatre professionals, communities and audiences, the partnerships produce high impact theatre events that use the local environment as a backdrop to tell compelling stories. Transform aims to enthuse and motivate participants and enable them to develop key skills they can adopt in life and the world of work.

Transform Aberdeen is the final of 10 Transform projects that will have been produced by the National Theatre of Scotland's Learn team from March 2008 to March 2010.  Teams of leading artists have been taking up residency in communities across Scotland, working with secondary schools and community groups to produce ten full-scale site-specific productions.  Previous Transform projects have taken place in Glasgow, Caithness, Orkney, Moray, East Renfrewshire, Dumfries, Fife, East Ayrshire and Inverclyde.

National Theatre of Scotland Learn opens up great theatre experiences to as many people as possible across Scotland. Since the launch of the National Theatre of Scotland in February 2006, National Theatre of Scotland Learn has created many educational and outreach theatre projects, involving over 104,000 participants and audience members, over 4,900 workshops and over 90 schools in 26 Scottish local authority areas.

ONLINE INFORMATION:  www.nationaltheatrescotland.com

For further information please contact: Toni O'Neill, Marketing & Press Officer on 0141 2279231.

Email:  toni.oneill@nationaltheatrescotland.com

The National Theatre of Scotland is supported by the Scottish Government.