www.onfife.com Jan - Apr 2018 Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries Rothes Halls Adam Smith Theatre Lochgelly Centre Carnegie Hall Kirkcaldy Galleries Libraries, Museums & Archives Join us online: /onfife @onfife Welcome2018 is nearly upon us and we’ve all been beavering away here at ONFife to make sure you have the very best of entertainment to look forward to. I am delighted to present to you our new ONFife brochure offering you an Contents amazing range of shows, events and exhibitions across our libraries, museums galleries and heritage sites. I hope you enjoy browsing and I look 03 Adam Smith Theatre forward to seeing you at our venues. Also make sure to join in the 12 Carnegie Hall conversation online. 21 Lochgelly 29 Rothes Halls 36 Fife Space 37 Archives & Local History Heather Stuart, Chief Executive 38 Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries 40 Kirkcaldy Galleries How to book 42 St Andrews Museum ON your travels visit us at CONCESSIONS 43 Libraries one of our four Theatre Box offices We offer lower-priced concession 45 At a Glance or at the event venue. tickets for many of our shows. If you are under 16, a Senior Citizen, ONline book and choose your student in full time education, Venue Key own seats at onfife.com registered disabled or unemployed, Disabled access available ON the phone call any of our where you see ‘conc.’ you can book Box Offices directly, the numbers at a reduced price. When collecting are at the top of each page. concessionary tickets, proof of Baby changing concession must be provided. facilities available Reservation fees: For tickets costing more than £5 YOU TELL US there is a reservation fee applied Whether you’ve seen a show, had Changing places online and on the phone but no lunch in one of our cafés or just charge in person at the box office: have a suggestion, we want to hear Car parking available £1 reservation fee per ticket from you. Log on to youtellus.co.uk (max £5 per transaction). or speak to a member of staff. Bike parking facilities GROUPS DATA PROTECTION We welcome larger parties and if Fife Cultural Trust is registered with you have a group of 10+ interested the Data Protection Registrar and is Licensed venue in seeing a show, call any of our committed to upholding the Data Box Offices or our Groups Protection Act. Should you wish to Café in venue be removed from our mailing list, Booking line on 01592 583354, email [email protected] as you may be able to benefit from a group discount. Supported by Registered with Company limited by guarantee (incorporated in Scotland) Company Number: SC415704 Scottish Charity Number: SCO43442 We reserve the right to introduce special offers at any time. All details are correct at time of going to press but we would encourage you to check online or with Box Office for up-to-date information. Join us online: onfife @onfife Adam Smith Theatre 3 Comedy Adam Smith Theatre Adam Smith Theatre is a lively venue in the heart of Kirkcaldy, located across from Kirkcaldy Galleries and a 5 minute walk from the train station. It offers a superb programme of drama, dance, music, comedy, film and family shows and is also home to many community arts groups, classes and Fife Youth Arts. Your Cinema in Kirkcaldy Phil Kay Adam Smith Theatre offers a full cinema programme throughout the year featuring blockbusters, independents Fri 5 Jan, 7.30pm, £10 now £5 and family films. Look out for our ON Screen brochure or *Also on at Lochgelly Centre Thu 4, Rothes Halls visit our website for full cinema listings. Sign up online to Sat 6 & Carnegie Hall Sun 7 receive our ON Screen brochure direct to your inbox. Phil Kay. Legendary Scottish Storyteller and master of mirth and mayhem. Come see a man from whom the words just flow in a bawdy stream of comic consciousness. It’s a joy just hearing Phil speak about his day – his adventures, calamities and hair-brained schemes. From buying Machetes in Venezuela, to Primal Scream threatening his puppy or arguing Address Contact Us with the police whilst in his bath. The man’s still Adam Smith Theatre, T: 01592 583302 wild. Anything could happen. Bennochy Road, AdamSmithTheatre Kirkcaldy, KY1 1ET Venue Hire Opening Times see www.onfife.com Grab a bargain in January Box Office: Open Mon to Contact the Events Team with our £5 Fife shows. Sat 10am - 5.30pm & later on BoxOffice.AdamSmith@ Tickets reduced to half price on performance nights onfife.com or telephone or less – now only £5 per Café Bar: Open one hour 01592 583302 for person. Look out for the before performances further details logo on events included. 4 Adam Smith Theatre Book Now: onfife.com | 01592 583302 Live Screening Comedy NT Live ‘Young Marx’ (Encore) Thu 11 Jan, 7pm £12.50/£10 conc 12A Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night, Green Wing) is Engels, in this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London, the production is directed by Nicholas Hytner and reunites the creative team behind Broadway and West End hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. Craig Hill – 1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing Someone’s combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like Gonna Get Kilt emotional illiteracy. Fri 26 Jan, 7.30pm £15.50/£13 conc, 16+ The Edinburgh and Aussie fringe comedy veteran returns. Weegie believe it? Scotland’s kilted comedy treasure is back – and we predict a riot (a riotous night of comedy that is!). We love his high-octane shows and his tours are selling out in advance – so book early! ‘Flat-out hilarious... I’ve not heard a room laugh so long and hard… There isn’t anyone better at working a crowd… the audience was in absolute paroxysms of laughter… Genuinely funny.’ (Mirror) Dance Comedy The Twilight Tease Burlesque Revue Beveridge Studio Sat 20 Jan, 8pm, £10/£8 conc, 18yrs+ Brandy Montmartre is a star of the UK’s ONFife Burlesque scene. Based in Edinburgh and Fife, Brandy has performed Comedy Nights internationally. With a performance style Café bar which mixes classic and neo-burlesque, Fri 26 Jan, 7.30pm, £5 she blends her exceptional dance skills Fri 23 Feb, Fri 30 Mar, with awe inspiring costumes. Fri 27Apr, Fri 25 May, 7.30pm, £10 With 3 guest comedians plus compere every month, you can expect lots and lots of laughs. Join us online: onfife @onfife Adam Smith Theatre 5 Comedy Milton Jones is Out There Thu 1 Feb, 8pm, £26 In his brand new show Milton will be putting his foot down and lifting the lid on the pedal bin of media lies (not including this promotional blurb, of course!). He will also be scaling the heights of fashion at the risk of falling into a terrible cravat. He’ll be talking about his life so far – the ups, the downs and why buying his own see-saw was the best decision he ever made. Theatre ‘ABSURDIST ONE-LINE MASTERPIECES’ Instructions For The Times Border Crossing Sat 27 Jan, 7.30pm £12 now £5 Beveridge Studio, 14+ 75mins no interval *Also on at Lochgelly Centre Fri 26 Jan A 12-year-old girl sneaks across the border into her own country. Her parents watch her on a computer screen. The works of a half-forgotten performance artist seem to hold the key to bringing down a brutal system operating on our behalf and under our noses. Do you join in? Or do you look the other way? From the maker of The Price of Everything and Going Viral, Instructions for Border Crossing is an intriguing political thriller. An ARC Stockton Production Written and performed by Daniel Bye Music Fife Festival of Music Mon 29 Jan to Fri 9 Feb Daytime and evening events. Competitive and Non-Competitive music classes - solos, ensembles, schools and community. All events open to the public. Small entry charge. Programme available January 2018. Come along to support your local music makers. www.ffom.org.uk 6 Adam Smith Theatre Book Now: onfife.com | 01592 583302 Music Music Frank Sinatra & Friends, Solitaire Carpenters starring Glenn Macnamara Sat 10 Feb, 7.30pm, £15 *Also on at Carnegie Hall Sat 3 Feb Sat 3 Feb, 7.30pm, £15 Solitaire Carpenters pays homage to the Headed East. Meadowlands in New Jersey (the state that illustrious music of Karen and Richard could boast being the place Ol’ Blue Eyes called home) Carpenter, with a dedication to recreating was where he came to play a concert that the rest of the the original Carpenters live experience world called a Homecoming. at the heart of their show. Now, over thirty years later, the Adam Smith Theatre in They’ve a huge back catalogue of Kirkcaldy is proud to announce its own homecoming. spine-tingling hits to choose from, such Glenn Macnamara, born and bred right here and is now as Please Mr Postman, Top of the World, considered by many as Britain’s finest swing singer brings Close to You, Goodbye to Love, Only his debonair charm, silky voice and brilliant band to us for Yesterday and many more. a show you won’t want to miss. Featuring the talented Chloe Foston as “An amazing young talent” Karen Carpenter and a live band who The Guardian share a collective passion for recreating the Carpenters sound, Solitaire has delighted audiences all over the country.