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The National Theatre of Scotland works with the best of Scottish and international talent to promote world class theatre. It aims to develop a sustainable and diverse audience, engaging with communities across Scotland and beyond by creating a touring body of work.
From its first performances in February 2006, the Company has rapidly established a growing reputation for exhilarating work across all scales and types of venue including site specific.
We have a number of new productions available for international touring, listed below.
For further information on these or any of the National Theatre of Scotland’s productions please contact:
Neil Murray
Executive Producer
T: +44 (0) 141 221 0970
E: neil.murray@nationaltheatrescotland.com
Eileen O’Reilly
Producer
T: +44 (0) 141 221 0970
E: eileen.oreilly@nationaltheatrescotland.com
Michael Mushalla
International Representation (not Europe)
E: mushalla @gmail.com
Office: +1 718 885 0346
Mobile: +1 917 864 4137
The House of Bernarda Alba
By Federico García Lorca
In a new version by Rona Munro
Directed by John Tiffany
A major new version of The House of Bernarda Alba, set in contemporary Scotland. Following the gangland execution of her husband, the formidable matriarch Bernarda Alba will do anything to safeguard her family’s dubious fortune and the future of her five daughters. A deal is struck - a marriage of convenience between her eldest girl and the son of a business rival. All Bernarda has to do is ensure that the wedding happens, and quickly. Five headstrong daughters cooped up in the family home in an emotionally charged atmosphere of bitter rivalry and repressed sexuality make that an epic challenge.
On tour Autumn 2009.
Long Gone Lonesome
Written by Duncan McLean
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Featuring the Lonestar Swing Band
Long Gone Lonesome tells the story of Thomas Fraser, the Shetlander with two lives. By day fisherman, father and islandman, by night world class innovator in American country and roots music. After his death in 1978, Thomas’ tapes were more or less forgotten until his grandson realised their importance and started restoring them. The first modest CD ignited a blaze of interest in Thomas and three more CDs have followed, as well as a festival in his honour, plaudits from critics and scholars internationally... and now this musical telling of his story.
On tour across Scotland, Autumn 2009
The Wolves in the Walls
Written by Neil Gaiman
Conceived and made for the stage by Vicky Featherstone, Julian Crouch and Nick Powell
Additional lyrics by Neil Gaiman
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
The Wolves in the Walls was originally created with Improbable.
Lucy hears creeping, creaking, crumpling noises coming from behind the wallpaper and is convinced that there are wolves in the walls of her house. Her jam-making mother, tuba-playing father and video game obsessed brother think the noises are really mice, or rats or bats. But they are wrong and she is right as they will all soon find out. . .
Touring availablity: on request
Aalst
Conceived, directed and designed by Pol Heyvaert in a new version by Duncan McLean from original texts by Pol Heyvaert and Dimitri Verhulst.
In 1999, in the suburban town of Aalst in Belgium, two parents murdered their children. The ensuing high profile and dramatic trial led to much soul-searching in the Belgian media. In 2005 Belgian theatre company, Victoria, dramatised the case, working from source material including statements and interviews, TV footage of the trial and a documentary on the murder investigation. Produced in theatres and festivals across Europe, Aalst has built a reputation as a powerful and complex piece of modern theatre which raises disturbing questions - questions that have no easy answer.
“Courageous, and achieving the highest standards of performance and production, Aalst is a credit to the NTS.” The Sunday Herald * * * * *
Aalst is available to tour on request
The Wonderful World of Dissocia
Written and directed by Anthony Neilson
Lisa Jones is on a journey. It’s a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in - Dissocia - are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal. As Neilson himself puts it, “If you like Alice in Wonderland but there’s not enough sex and violence in it for you, then Dissocia is the show for you”.
“. . . the show's mixture of humour, truth and unfettered originality strikes me as something very special.” The Daily Telegraph
The Wonderful World of Dissocia and Realism are available to tour on request individually or in repertoire.
Realism
Written and directed by Anthony Neilson
Realism follows the life of one man during an ordinary day which splinters off into a deliriously surreal trip inside his wayward imagination. An exquisite tragi-comedy for our times, Realism will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever struggled to make sense of the modern world and their place in it.
“A gloriously flamboyant and serious lurch into an underworld most of us daren’t imagine . . .” The Herald *****
The Wonderful World of Dissocia and Realism are available to tour on request individually or in repertoire.