EASTGATE THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE Hooked on Words Poems and prose, talks and walks Creative Peebles Takes to the streets Divisions Explored From India then to Istanbul now summer JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER 2017 BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 www.eastgatearts.com highlights... We offer a range of discounts on discounts selected shows. Look out for the July get in & information icons on the event listings. Lady Boys of Bangkok It just couldn’t be more fabulous ...8 spotlight touch... Friend of a Friend - if you are a Friend Angels in America of the Eastgate, you can bring a friend Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre 1980s New Yorkers grapple with life summer ... Eastgate Peebles EH45 8AD with you for free and death, love and sex, heaven 2017 and hell in this 2 part classic. ...4 Box Office: 01721 725 777 It’s going to be a hot summer ... Time Friends of the Eastgate - Drop us a line at [email protected] August to pack the picnic basket, update your £2 off the first ticket Visit our website www.eastgatearts.com Highland Fling playlist, and head out to make some for more information about the theatre Funbox battle midges and become new friends. If you were in the south Registered Disabled/Carer - £2 off full price monarchs of the glen. ...37 and to sign up to receive regular emails of France you’d find the perfect spot about things you're interested in. Sisters of Swing beside a river beneath a chateau, with Student Discount - £2 off full price Perfect harmony from The Swingcats - Follow us on Twitter@EastgateTheatre smooth, stylish sisters of swing. .. 9 an accordionist in the distance. But and Facebook/Eastgate Theatre Child - £6 unless specified otherwise The Sky is Safe since you’re in Peebles, then the best Opening times Two characters meet in an anonymous place to start is at the Eastgate. alley in Istanbul. What follows is a story Box Office: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Family - 1 adult + 3 children or of love and war, a dance of life and death. ...5 First stop the Eastgate Cafe, where Film Sundays 12.30 - 5pm 2 adults + 2 children for a group discount until interval end on show nights September free summer entertainment is provided by the young musicians of Feis Rois, Café OAP - £2 off full price Music in Peebles is 70 Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Clarinettist Michael Collins joins the and the many talented youngsters of Film Sundays 12.30 - 5pm Heath Quartet for this celebratory concert. ..7 Nomad Beat. There’s also a whole Audio Description service available. until interval end on show nights. Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) series of outdoor adventures starting Printed using vegetable inks on FSC approved paper. All the carbon emissions generated Mozart’s glorious opera launches the from the cafe during the Creative in the printing of this programme will be offset by planting broadleaved trees in a local season of four operas and five ballets Front cover: community woodland resulting in the print becoming completely carbon balanced. Peebles Festival – with guided walks screened live from the Royal Opera Garden Birds by Helen Kemp exploring bridges, buildings, gardens The Eastgate Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of House, Covent Garden. ...6 See more of Helen’s work in the Out and huts all around town. of The Woods exhibition, The Gallery, Yerma Tweeddale Museum, Peebles from Billie Piper is “stunning, searing, unmissable” as the young woman Then to the Theatre itself for some 16 September to 25 November. in the National Theatre’s inspired perfect summer music – from the sassy www.helenkempceramics.co.uk reworking of Lorca. ...4 style of The Swingcats to the dustbowl harmonies of 3hattrio, from the cool blues of the McAllister Jazz Quartet to the sweet country of The Honeycutters. Not to mention some of W Scotland’s best musicians, in the shape o Visual Arts of Aly and Phil, The Tannahill Weavers, Talks r F and the Rachel Hair Trio. D k s i a And finally if you’d like to find some h Literature Music l o m new friends who’ll add something a n p little exotic to this perfect picnic, then c Tours s Theatre BOX OFFICE IS OPEN check out the Lady Boys of Bangkok ... e MONDAY - SATURDAY 10 am - 5 pm The summer has just got hotter! UNTIL 8 pm ON PERFORMANCE NIGHTS BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 Friday 25 August – Sunday 3 September MORE INFO www.eastgatearts.com For full details of all events see centre pages of this brochure. Caroline Adam General Manager Tel 01721 725777 www.creativepeeblesfestival.co.uk for more information visit www.eastgatearts.com ... 3 eg... Drama on Screen ...Drama DOGSTAR THEATRE COMPANY presents NATIONAL THEATRE (LIVE) presents The Sky is Safe NATIONAL THEATRE (ENCORE) presents Angels in America Auditorium Yerma Part 1: Millennium Approaches Two characters meet on the opulent streets and shadowy alleys of Taksim, the commercial heart of Istanbul where every conceivable transaction takes place. Auditorium Auditorium She is a Syrian refugee, he a privileged westerner from northern Europe. A young woman (Billie Piper) is driven to the This “gay fantasia on universal themes” set in What follows is a dream-like dance, an impossible meeting where these two unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the acknowledge and ignore the barriers between them. The anonymity of the child in this radical production of Lorca’s AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan metropolis and their own transience allows them to reinvent themselves, achingly powerful masterpiece by Simon Stone. administration, New Yorkers grapple with life though in reality, they can’t escape who they are or what they represent. He has stripped it of washerwomen, shepherds, and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. The Sky is Safe is a love story, a war story and a microcosm of our time. poetic effusions. He has transplanted the action Andrew Garfield plays Prior Walter in a cast that from rural Spain to present-day London, and www.dogstartheatre.co.uk includes Denise Gough, Nathan Lane, James made its heroine a lifestyle journalist and McArdle, and Russell Tovey. blogger. He shows the yearning of the central figure, the pressure that builds up around her, This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award and the desperation that engulfs her, as utterly winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and contemporary. Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Billie Piper was described by the Guardian as Time and War Horse). Thu 31 August “earth-quaking” in the title role as she moves 7.30pm from twinkling with arch knowingness to Age:15 £14 banshee fury and druggy dislocation. The Thu 20 July performance won her the Evening Standard Best Actress Award. 7pm £14, £10 for schoolchildren ★★★★★ “stunning, searing, unmissable” Mail on Sunday Angels in America ★★★★★ “Billie Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired reworking Part 2: Perestroika will be broadcast live. of Lorca” The Observer Age:15 Age:15 Thu 27 July 7pm Thu 28 September £14, £10 for schoolchildren 7pm £14, £10 for schoolchildren 4... EASTGATE PEEBLES EH45 8AD BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 ... 5 eg... Opera on Screen ...Music MUSIC IN PEEBLES presents 70th Anniversary Concert Michael Collins (clarinet) ROYAL OPERA HOUSE (LIVE) ROYAL OPERA HOUSE presents Season & The Heath Quartet Die Zauberflote Five ballets and six operas, each live Auditorium from the Royal Opera House. (The Magic Flute) Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op.34 Ballet Live: Alice’s Adventures by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Wonderland Jörg Widmann String Quartet No.1 Mon 23 October Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 7.15pm Auditorium Ballet Live: The Nutcracker A truly special concert to mark both a The Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tue 5 December special anniversary and the close of 7.15pm Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from another Creative Peebles Festival. Opera Live: Tosca captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, Michael Collins is one of the world’s Wed 7 February 2018 he learns the high ideals of Sarastro's foremost clarinettists and he joins forces community and seeks to join it. Separately, then Opera Encore: Carmen with the outstanding Heath Quartet. together, Tamino and Pamina undergo severe Sun 11 March 2018 Together, they perform two much-loved trials of initiation, which end in triumph, with the 2pm works; the sparkling clarinet quintet by Queen and her cohorts vanquished. The earthy Ballet Live: Bernstein Centenary Weber and that by Mozart; one of the Papageno, who accompanies Tamino on his Tue 27 March 2018 most popular pieces in the entire quest, fails the trials completely but is rewarded 7.15pm chamber music repertoire. anyway with the hand of his ideal female companion Papagena. Opera Live: Macbeth www.musicinpeebles.org.uk Wed 4 April 2018 Conducted by Julia Jones and starring Roderick 7.15pm Williams, Siobhan Stagg and Mauro Peter, the Sun 3 September Ballet Live: Manon production is directed by David McVicar. 7.30pm Thu 3 May 2018 £14, £7, free for MiP members Wed 20 September 7.15pm and students under 25 7.15pm Ballet Live: Swan Lake in full-time education £17, £10 for schoolchildren (new production) Tue 12 June 2018 7.15pm Book for any three performances from Season Saver the nine in the season and pay just Tickets for each performance are £17 for adults and £45 for adults or £25 for under 16s £10 for schoolchildren Ask box office for details 6..