WHAT’S Sept – Dec 2014 ADAM SMITH THEATRE CARNEGIE HALL LOCHGELLY CENTRE ROTHES HALLS music drama comedy dance family cinema exhibitions www.onfife.com Adam Smith pages 4 – 11 Join us online at Carnegie Hall pages 12 – 28 Lochgelly Centre pages 29 – 32 ONfife @ONfife Rothes Halls pages 33 – 45 Sign up to our e-newsletter Libraries & Museums page 46 For competitions, news, o!ers and more simply visit www.onfife.com/mail and you Diary listing of all events pages 24 – 25 can receive our e-newsletter or the How to book page 47 brochure direct to your inbox. ON THE BALL THE BALL Our ON the Ball o!ers bounce back once more with many shows a tenner or less! Look out for this logo and book early to net these great deals and save money! PRE-THEATRE MEALS Complete your evening and dine at one of our theatre café bars. We o!er mouth-watering meals prior to selected shows. This symbol next to a show means delicious food for just £10 for 2 courses. Ask Box O"ce for menus. Advanced booking essential. Thank you to our Business Sponsors. ON Business packages give you outstanding return on your investment in the form of brand exposure and excellent networking opportunities. Platinum members’ logos are seen over 1.6 million times a year. Contact bill.mair@onfife.com for more info. PLATINUM MEMBERS: ON at Fife Theatres is part of Fife Cultural Trust, combining Libraries, Museums, Theatres and Arts and Archives in the Kingdom. Registered with Company limited by guarantee (incorporated in Scotland) Company Number: SC415704. Scottish Charity Number: SC043442 Supported by We reserve the right to introduce special o!ers at any time. All details are correct at time of going to press but we would encourage you to check online or with Box O"ce for up-to-date information. We welcome your feedback, so log on to www.youtellus.co.uk Welcome or speak to a member to another bumper Autumn season packed with treats across our of sta!. venues. As ever, we have a fantastic line-up of well-known entertainers and companies, alongside some blossoming new talent for you to enjoy. With competitive ticket prices and our ON the Ball early booker o!ers, why not come along and try something new? Music fans have much to look forward to with the legendary Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Showaddywaddy, Big Country, The South, The Blues Band and Scottish Opera. You’ll certainly be splitting your sides at the amount of comedy coming your way. We have lined up Daniel Sloss, Craig Hill, Chris Ramsey and Jim Davidson and don’t miss Eric and Little Ern – an a!ectionate and very funny homage to the great duo plus a great girls’ night out with Shang-a-Lang. As part of the WW1 commemorations, we have a number of events, family activities and touring exhibitions, alongside the powerful dramas Sunset Song and Not About Heroes and films within Kirkcaldy Film Festival. From The National Theatre of Scotland’s gripping drama In Time O’ Strife to uplifting Americana music, to inspiring Up Close dance with Scottish Ballet and BalletLORENT and a captivating bunch of shows for little ones in Totfest, there’s so much to choose from. And it is not just theatres we have on o!er, as part of Fife Cultural Trust we have lots of inspiring and entertaining events, exhibitions and activities across our 11 museums and 54 libraries. More information can be found on page 46. And of course, there’s Christmas, and we’re already well underway with Adam Smith’s gigantic Pantomime, Jack and The Beanstalk, starring Billy Mack whilst at Carnegie Hall we have the magical, musical fun of Snow White. Make yours a twinkly, sparkly Christmas with one – or both – of our productions! Hazel Wotherspoon Head of Programming & Creative Development A lively theatre in the heart of Kirkcaldy welcoming touring drama, comedy, music and an annual pantomime, Adam Smith Theatre is also at the heart of our community, staging family shows for all ages, and home to many community arts groups and classes. With all that and a fantastic café, come in, take a seat, and enjoy! Cinema Adam Smith Theatre o!ers a full cinema programme throughout the year with films at a bargain price of £6.50, conc. £5.50. Look out for our ON Screen brochure or website for full cinema listings, featuring blockbusters, independents and family films. Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy KY11ET Box O"ce 01592 583302 Box O!ce open 10am – 5.30pm Mon – Sat and later on show nights Adam Smith Café opens Monday – Saturday 10am – 3pm and for pre-theatre meals. Bar opens 1 hour before performances. TUE 26 – SAT 30 AUGUST 7.30PM I £25 CONC. £22 THE LADY BOYS OF BANGKOK LIVE BROADCASTS Sit back and relax and join a global audience RED HOT KISSES experiencing the best of British Theatre. Pucker up for one of the hottest events WED 3 SEPTEMBER I 7PM I £12.50 CONC. £10 of the summer. The UK's favourite Thai ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LIVE beauties are dripping with diamante The Two Gentlemen of Verona and sizzling on stage with songs and Best friends Valentine and Proteus fall in love with side-splitting comedy. This is the perfect the same girl, Silvia, the Duke’s Daughter. Proteus night out for the ladies – and the boys! already has a girlfriend and the Duke thinks his daughter could do better than Valentine. Cue mischief and mayhem before the final dramatic conclusion. SAT 6 SEPTEMBER I 7PM I £12.50, CONC. £10 NATIONAL THEATRE ENCORE Medea “This is high on the list Helen McCrory (The Last of the Haussmans) returns of shows to see before to the National Theatre to take the title role in you die, so why not Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben do it now?” Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell, and with music by Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp. Fringe Guru, Brighton “It's an irresistible, JUST ANNOUNCED! irrepressible evening that TUE 16 SEPTEMBER I 7PM I £12.50, CONC. £10 guarantees a great night out!” Steve Burbridge, NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE YOUNG VIC The British Theatre Guide A Streetcar Named Desire With Gillian Anderson as Blache DuBois PAGE 4 www.onfife.com Box O"ce 01592 583302 THUR 11 – SAT 13 SEPTEMBER I 7.30PM; FRI 10AM £12 CONC. £10. SCHOOLS £9 I AGE 12+ I PRE-THEATRE MEALS SAT 13 SEPT SELL A DOOR THEATRE COMPANY SUNSET SONG Chris Guthrie is bound to a harsh farming life by her intense love of the land. She dreams of the seductive yet distant world of books and learning, but when war breaks out, Chris suddenly finds herself facing a very di!erent reality as a widowed, single mother in a land altered beyond recognition. Marking a hundred years since the start of the First World War, Sell a Door Theatre Company revives Alastair Cording’s faithful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic ‘Sunset Song’, recently voted Scotland’s most popular novel of all time. FRI 19 – SUN 21 SEPTEMBER £7.50 CONC. £6.50 10% OFF ALL TICKETS IF BOOKED BY 1 SEPT It’s the second Kirkcaldy Film Festival and across the space of three days we’ll celebrate the art of cinema with films that haven’t yet opened to the public and some shining classics THE BALL of cinema history. Fri 19 Sept 10.00am PATHS OF GLORY plus discussion with film critic Nigel Floyd 4.00pm THE WINTER GUEST 7.30pm MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT Sat 20 Sep 11.00am A LITTLE PRINCESS 1.30pm Storybook Creations at Kirkcaldy Galleries 2.00pm Paul Wright Short Film Retrospective 4.00pm FOR THOSE IN PERIL 7.30pm GOLDFINGER + Pre-screening short: Claire Lamond's SEA FRONT Sun 21 Sep 1.00pm LA GRANDE ILLUSION plus talk by Mark Smith of The Herald 4.00pm REGENERATION 7.30pm WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY TUE 30 SEPTEMBER I 7.15PM I £10 Kirkcaldy’s local pipeband have had such a packed schedule competing that this is the first chance they KIRKCALDY have had to perform at their home venue. There will be perfomances from friends of the band including amazing AND soloists, G1 Reeds, Sarah Hendry's Dance School and more. Also flying in from Germany are special guests The Mailing DISTRICT Brass Band. PIPE BAND So come along with your family and enjoy the show! PAGE 5 PAGE 5 www.onfife.com Box O"ce 01592 583302 WED 1 OCTOBER 7.30PM I £12 CONC. £10. SCHOOLS £5 SUBWAY THEATRE COMPANY TRAGIC ‘You can’t kill someone just ‘cos a ghost tells you. I mean: is a ghost the most reliable source?' He's little more than a boy and he's saying these totally outrageous things about his family and friends and neighbours when this total bombshell drops and he's left with the mother of all dilemmas and – as they say in Hollywood – NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. Iain Heggie's hilarious, exciting and contemporary adaptation of Hamlet clears away the fog and brings the great story to vivid, pulsating life. FRI 3 & SAT 4 OCTOBER I FRIDAY 7PM; SAT 2PM I £10 CONC. £8. SCHOOLS £6.50 ALL TICKETS £8 IF BOOKED BY 5 SEPTEMBER I AGE 7+ PRE-THEATRE MEALS £10 (FRI) THE BALL balletLORENT RAPUNZEL Welcome to a new take on the classic fairytale. balletLORENT’s Rapunzel is as much for adults as it is for children and tells the story of the parents forced to give up their child, the Witch “It promises to be who takes her from them, the woman the child the next Matilda, the must-get ticket becomes and the Prince who discovers and for kids with rescues her.