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EASTGATE THEATRE Fair COP Music about mountains Conversations about change Films about fish and forests Roots (in a word) Rant, Talisk, Fara, Còig Playtime From bitesized drama and pub theatre to a Christmas classic and panto autumn SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2021 BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 www.eastgatearts.com discounts ... We offer a range of discounts on selected shows. eg Look out for the icons on the event listings. Friend of the Eastgate - £2 off the first ticket Registered Disabled- £2 off full price Accompanying carer - free Eastgate Theatre Under 26 - £2 off full price Eastgate Peebles EH45 8AD Box Office Under 16 - Films - £6 01721 725 777 Live performances - £8 [email protected] Unless a different price is specified For full information on the theatre please visit Family - 1 adult + 3 children or 2 adults + 2 children for a group www.eastgatearts.com discount Opening times OAP - £2 off full price Box Office and Café: Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm Audio Description service available. Sunday and Monday 1 – 5pm until interval end on show nights Follow us on Front Cover: The Depths by Douglas Davies. See more of Douglas’ work at www.douglasdaviesrsw.co.uk or at Biggar Museum until Sunday 12 September. The Eastgate Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of Printed using vegetable inks on FSC approved paper. All the carbon emissions generated in the printing of this programme will be offset by planting broadleaved trees in a local community woodland resulting in the print becoming completely carbon balanced. highlights... September spotlight Northern Flyway Extraordinary merging of new roots music and the sound of birds against autumn... a backdrop of haunting visuals ...11 2021 Holmes and Watson, What a year this has turned out to The Farewell Tour be. So many changes to deal with – A baffling case so bonkers and funny that the Northern Echo recommended home schooling? home working? a public health warning ...4 Anywhere-but-home holidays! So many choices still to make – October Netflix on tv OR new films on Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man cinema screen; solo performers Bizet’s Carmen re-imagined as a on Youtube OR live bands in the stunning dance thriller ...13 theatre; experimental baking at Martin Simpson home OR creative arts in the Simply one of the finest acoustic and Eastgate studio; social life on slide guitar players in the world ...7 zoom OR party time in the cafe. November To make things easier for you, we’ve packed the Eastgate autumn Blue Rose Code programme with delicious drama Deeply personal music and song from far and near, magnificent from a true original ...26 musicians of every genre, Hogg in the Limelight characterful comedy, compelling The Ettrick Shepherd has inspired four new ten minute plays from conversations, and some fabulous Borders Pub Theatre ...5 films. Plus opportunities to take part in dance, drama, music and December art – from tumbling tots to lifelong learners. Scrooge of Peebles The new panto from Tweed Theatre Whether you want to watch, listen, Youth stars a miserable miser, a sock sit, dance, eat, drink, laugh, cry, factory and lots of singing and share stories or make friends, we dancing mayhem ...35 want you to make the Eastgate The Nutcracker Theatre your first choice. Now The Royal Opera on screen – must be nearly Christmas ...12 and for the future. Caroline Adam General Manager 3 eg...Drama PYRAMUS AND THISBE presents RAPTURE BITES 2021 presents Holmes and Watson: The Dock Brief The Farewell Tour by John Mortimer Auditorium Auditorium Sherlock Holmes has prevailed upon Dr Watson, What happens when an unsuccessful murderer his landlady Mrs Hudson and Inspector Lestrade meets an even more unsuccessful barrister? of Scotland Yard to join him in a farewell tour of the British Isles when they will re-enact one of Budgie fancier Herbert Fowle has murdered the detective’s most baffling unrecorded cases – his wife and is now on trial. His only hope rests The Case of the Prime Minister, the Floozie and with Morgenhall, his court appointed barrister. the Lummock Rock Lighthouse. Expect a glimpse However, Morgenhall has never won a case. of the fabled Satsuma Stone, stolen from the Can Morgenhall change his lifelong losing crown of William of Orange in the seventeenth streak and free Mr Fowle? This classic play by century and only recently discovered in a the acclaimed writer of Rumpole of the Bailey midden in Maastricht. stars John Bett as Morgenhall and Nick Wilton as Fowle. Enjoy great company, a light lunch “delightfully, utterly bonkers, and so funny and a classic short play. it should come with a Government health warning.” The Northern Echo Wed 10 November 12.15pm (lunch before the play) Thu 30 September £15 7.30pm £16 1pm (play only) £12 4 EASTGATE PEEBLES EH45 8AD BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 ...Drama BORDERS PUB THEATRE presents GUY MASTERSON Hogg in the presents Limelight A Christmas Carol Auditorium Auditorium Four new ten-minute plays from Borders Master performer and story-teller Guy Masterson Pub Theatre, inspired by the life and work brings Dickens' enduring classic to life in his of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. From inimitable multi-character performance style. talking yowes and corbie crows to the deil With as much focus on physical agility as verbal himself, reimagined characters leap to life dexterity, Masterson tells the story of Miser from Hogg’s works in these lively and Ebenezer Scrooge and the spirits who reveal to creative semi-staged plays from Borders him his miserable existence, opportunities he has playwrights. wasted and the dire fate that awaits him if he Expect the natural world and the darker doesn’t change his ways. arts as writers explore the inspiration and Thu 9 December themes of Hogg’s work, including 7.30pm Confessions of a Justified Sinner, once £16, £14 called the greatest novel of Scotland. Writers: Campbell Hutcheson, Anita John, Roger Simian and Robert Sproul-Cran. Actors: David Bon, Matthew Burgess, Emily Larner. Directed by Vivien Reid. Sat 27 November 7.30pm £12 for more information visit www.eastgatearts.com 5 eg...Drama on Screen NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE presents Follies Auditorium Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical was directed by Dominic Cooke and filmed live on stage at the National Theatre in 2017. New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves. Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards, Sondheim’s previous work includes A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George. Friday 17 September 7pm £17, £10 under 16 by Johan Persson Photograph 6 EASTGATE PEEBLES EH45 8AD BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 ...Music Heidi Talbot & Martin Simpson Boo Hewerdine Auditorium Auditorium An intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply Heidi Talbot celebrates 20 years as a moving performance by one of the finest professional singer and the release of a acoustic and slide guitar players in the world. compilation album featuring tracks from her Martin’s interpretations of traditional songs are five solo albums. She is joined on stage by masterpieces of storytelling as he combines the long-time collaborator, Ivor Novello award different elements of British, Afro-American and nominated singer-songwriter Boo Hewerdine. old-timey music with his own songs. Heidi has been nominated for folk singer of the Martin Simpson has been nominated an year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and Irish astounding 27 times in the 15 years of the BBC Music Awards, has shared the stage and Radio 2 Folk Awards – more than any other recorded with Mark Knopfler, Graham Coxon, performer – with nine consecutive years as Idlewild, King Creosote. nominee for Musician of The Year. Boo has performed with and written songs for Wed 27 October major artists such as Chris Difford, KD Lang, 7.30pm Kris Drever, Duke Special and Eddi Reader. £18 The two have recorded and toured together extensively. Other guest announcements to come. Fri 29 October 7.30pm £18 Photograph by Elly Lucas Photograph for more information visit www.eastgatearts.com 7 eg...Music Fara RANT Auditorium Auditorium Fara brings together four leading musicians at RANT is the meeting of four of Scotland’s finest the forefront of today’s young Scottish folk fiddle players, Bethany Reid, Jenna Reid, scene. Kristan Harvey, Jeana Leslie and Lauren MacColl and Anna Massie who join Catriona Price’s three fiddles combine with forces to create a sound both rich and lush, Rory Matheson’s piano to produce a fiery yet retaining a savage bite and spark, weaving sound rooted strongly in their upbringing a tapestry of melodies, textures, layers and among the music of Orkney. sounds. With a mixture of self-penned and traditional Their third album - The Portage - is a stark, Orkney tunes as well as stunning vocals, Fara’s honest recording showcasing the rich resonance musical experiences and friendships produce of their four fiddles in various tunings, textures an exciting and individual sound. They are very and layers. RANT’S live set reflects their home excited to be back on the road in 2021 with areas of Shetland and the Highlands. vibrant arrangements full of rich harmonies, “This is dignified, deep and profound music” energetic fiddle playing and