North East Arts Touring

The Battling Butlers
2023-05-22 19:30 UTC | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom
Juggling babies, toddlers on stilts, and teaching young Joey to ride his first unicycle are all part of everyday life for single dad, Joe Butler, in this poignant, family love story involving the ever-changing relationship of a father-and-son double act.
Using a unique blend of physical theatre, circus skills, original songs, and live music, The Battling Butlers is a study in role reversal and the inevitability of change, as the old order makes way for the new.
Based in Penzance in Cornwall, Bash Street Theatre has built an international reputation over the last 30 years, performing silent-comedy, street theatre shows throughout the UK, Europe, and beyond. The Battling Butlers is a real family affair, performed by father and son, Simon Pullum and Loki Pickering, with original live music from Julian Gaskell

The Battling Butlers
2023-05-23 19:30 | Aberdeenshire
Juggling babies, toddlers on stilts, and teaching young Joey to ride his first unicycle are all part of everyday life for single dad, Joe Butler, in this poignant, family love story involving the ever-changing relationship of a father-and-son double act.
Using a unique blend of physical theatre, circus skills, original songs, and live music, The Battling Butlers is a study in role reversal and the inevitability of change, as the old order makes way for the new.
Based in Penzance in Cornwall, Bash Street Theatre has built an international reputation over the last 30 years, performing silent-comedy, street theatre shows throughout the UK, Europe, and beyond. The Battling Butlers is a real family affair, performed by father and son, Simon Pullum and Loki Pickering, with original live music from Julian Gaskell.

This project is supported by the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund.

The Battling Butlers (Relaxed Performance)
2023-05-24 19:30 | The Phoenix Centre, Newton Dee Village, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9DX, United Kingdom

The Battling Butlers
2023-05-25 18:30 | MacRobert Memorial Hall, The Square, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, AB34 YL, United Kingdom
Juggling babies, toddlers on stilts, and teaching young Joey to ride his first unicycle are all part of everyday life for single dad, Joe Butler, in this poignant, family love story involving the ever-changing relationship of a father-and-son double act.
Using a unique blend of physical theatre, circus skills, original songs, and live music, The Battling Butlers is a study in role reversal and the inevitability of change, as the old order makes way for the new.
Based in Penzance in Cornwall, Bash Street Theatre has built an international reputation over the last 30 years, performing silent-comedy, street theatre shows throughout the UK, Europe, and beyond. The Battling Butlers is a real family affair, performed by father and son, Simon Pullum and Loki Pickering, with original live music from Julian Gaskell.

Mrs Peacock's Feathers
2023-05-26 19:30 | Portgordon Village Hall, Cross Street, Portgordon, Buckie, Moray, AB56 5QW, United Kingdom
Scotland’s leading Murder Mystery company – Can You Catch the Killer – invite you to attend a truly unique evening. Sit back and relax as we perform a side-splitting opening act, then get involved in the action as YOU interrogate each suspect in a terrible murder. It’s an evening like no other with a story you’ll never forget.
MRS PEACOCK’S FEATHERS: Welcome to the mansion of the mysterious and elusive Mrs Peacock, where some unsavoury-looking guests have gathered. The Reverend seems a little green around the gills, the Colonel doesn’t really care for mustard and Mrs White is looking a bit pale, to say the least. With all these odd characters around… is it any wonder that someone has turned up dead? It’s up to you to get to the bottom of this classic Cluedo-themed mystery!
Watch events unfold in a professionally performed play and then flex your detective skills and have your chance to interrogate each suspect in turn! Bring a team or come on your own. Fun, funny, mysterious and a good night for all. YOU interrogate the suspects. YOU piece together the clues. YOU make the accusations.
Can YOU catch the killer?

Joyride
2023-05-28 19:30 | Aberdeenshire
A train-wreck on an adventure who is ready to give away her newborn baby. Joined by a cheeky street urchin, they are two diamonds in the rough on the run.

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Running Time: 94 Minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Director: Emer Reynolds
Starring: Olivia Colman, Lochlann O’Mearáin, David Pearse, Olwen Fouéré

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
2023-06-01 19:30 | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists adapted by Neil Gore from the book by Robert Tressell, directed by Louise Townsend
Neil Gore, presents a one-person version of the classic novel by Robert Tressell featuring projection, political conjuring tricks, live music and song. Meet the famous characters and enjoy the scenes, speeches and songs, featuring the Great Money Trick as its centrepiece.
This enduring and absorbing classic story of a year in the life of a group of Edwardian painters and decorators is brought to life by Neil Gore using his extensive knowledge of the book and the play, having performed it in many versions over forty years.
‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ follows a group of workers as they renovate ‘The Cave’, a three-storey townhouse, for Mayor Sweater. It traces their hardships and struggles for survival in a complacent and stagnating Edwardian England. These workers are the ‘philanthropists’ who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. They are joined by artist Owen, whose spirited attacks on the dishonesty of Capitalism along with his Socialist vision, highlights the exploitation in their workplace but also focuses on the inequality in society as a whole.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
2023-06-02 19:30 | The Little Theatre, Nairn, King Street, Nairn, Moray, IV12 4NP, United Kingdom

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
2023-06-03 19:30 | Aberdeenshire

Iona Lane
2023-06-04 19:30 | Glenlivet Public Hall, Bridgend of Glenlivet, Ballindalloch, Moray, AB37 9BX, United Kingdom
Iona Lane is a folk singer, songwriter, and storyteller. Having released her debut album ‘Hallival’ in 2022 to critical acclaim, reaching number 36 in the Folk Album Charts and airplay across the country including the folk shows on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Scotland, and BBC Radio Wales. ‘Hallival’ was listed #27 in FRUK’s top albums of 2022. Iona’s music draws inspiration from landscapes and the natural world, finding stories in rural locations of mythology, folklore, and science and giving them new life in folk music. Accompanied by intricate guitar playing and the hypnotic tones of a shruti box, Iona’s voice has been captivating audiences up and down the country.
Accompanied by Malin Lewis – a piper, fiddler, and multi-instrumentalist best known for making their own instruments and experimenting with unusual sounds. Malin learned their music on the West Coast of Scotland before studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Magic Gareth's Magic Eye
2023-06-17 16:00 | Aberdeenshire
Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and Magic Festival, Magic Gareth goes on tour with Magic EYE!
Expect some kick-ass eye-bending magic and a whole load of nonsense (and balloons)! This brand-new show from the mind of Magic Gareth is here to make you laugh, and experience live theatre and magic at its very best!
Featuring The Biggest Balloon in the World, ‘Magic Eye’ is a rip-roaring family show, including games, gifts, and a whole load of ‘silly’!

This project is supported by the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund.

Magic Gareth's Magic Eye
2023-06-18 | Findochty Town Hall, 22 Station Road, Findochty, Buckie, AB56 4PN, United Kingdom
CANCELLED
Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and Magic Festival, Magic Gareth goes on tour with Magic EYE!
Expect some kick-ass eye-bending magic and a whole load of nonsense (and balloons)! This brand-new show from the mind of Magic Gareth is here to make you laugh, and experience live theatre and magic at its very best!
Featuring The Biggest Balloon in the World, ‘Magic Eye’ is a rip-roaring family show, including games, gifts, and a whole load of ‘silly’!

Local Hero
2023-06-25 19:30 | Aberdeenshire
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don’t go as expected.
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Running Time: 111 Minutes
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Director: Bill Forsyth
Starring: Peter Riegert, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove, Burt Lancaster

The Gods The Gods The Gods
2023-07-07 19:30 | Aberdeenshire
Performed as a 12-track album, The Gods The Gods The Gods is an exhilarating weave of big beats, heavy basslines, soaring melodies, and heart-stopping spoken word
The 65-minute show weaves together 4 stories: Two kids meet out dancing, they’re set to fall hard; A woman is on a beach, alone at night, looking at the stars; A bloke is on a bridge, thinking about jumping, just before dark. It’s a show about what we continually look for outside of ourselves, and what we might find in those people who surround us.
The Gods The Gods The Gods is the third show in the internationally acclaimed series of Myths from the two ‘masters of storytelling’ (Fourth Wall) Wright&Grainger. Following their multi-award winning tellings of Orpheus and Eurydice, Wright&Grainger call us to the crossroads where mythology meets real life.

The Gods The Gods The Gods
2023-07-08 19:30 | Kemnay Village Hall, 8 Aquithie Road, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, AB51 5SS, United Kingdom

The Gods The Gods The Gods (Relaxed Performance)
2023-07-09 19:30 | The Phoenix Centre, Newton Dee Village, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9DX, United Kingdom

Thrown
2023-07-12 19:30 | Aberdeenshire
Sweat. Breath. Opposition. Negotiation. Fear. How long can you hold on?
5 wildly different women gather in the muddy fields of the Highland Games circuit, ready to compete in the obscure art of Backhold Wrestling. The pearls are off, influencer videos posted, “Gucci bag” from the Barras cast aside as they attempt to join forces, wrestling with the only thing that could stop them from taking home the championship – each other. Will their differences face-plant Imogen, Chantelle, Jo, Pamela and Helen’s chances of success in the mud?
Satirical, poignant, and dynamic, Thrown gets to grips with belonging and identity in Scotland. A unique, unmissable new production.
It will be funny, it will be loud, it will be brutal.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2023-07-15 14:00 | Aberdeenshire
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
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Running Time: 103 Minutes
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Joel Crawford
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Harvey Guillen, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Wagner Moura

Thrown
2023-07-15 19:00 | Woodside Fountain Centre, Marquis Road, Aberdeen, AB24 2QY, United Kingdom

Happiness Collectors
2023-07-18 - 2023-07-19 | Findochty Town Hall, 22 Station Road, Findochty, Buckie, AB56 4PN, United Kingdom
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supplies of happiness are running low and they need your help to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join the Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Happiness Collectors is a fusion of physical theatre and audio-immersive storytelling for family audiences. Each audience member experiences the show through a set of wireless headphones, guided by their very own Happiness Collector Instructor, SAM, aka Special Agent M.

Happiness Collectors
2023-07-20 | Aberdeenshire
The Happiness Collectors need YOU! The world’s supplies of happiness are running low and they need your help to top them up. Pop on your headphones and join the Happiness Collectors on a journey of sounds and silliness to learn the best ways to collect happiness – and most important of all, how to pass it on!
Happiness Collectors is a fusion of physical theatre and audio-immersive storytelling for family audiences. Each audience member experiences the show through a set of wireless headphones, guided by their very own Happiness Collector Instructor, SAM, aka Special Agent M

Happiness Collectors
2023-07-21 | Aberdeenshire

The BFG
2023-08-20 14:00 | Aberdeenshire
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
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Running Time: 117 Minutes
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Rebecca Hall, Jemaine Clement, Bill Hader, Penelope Wilton, Rafe Spall

What's Love Got to Do With It?
2023-08-20 19:00 | Aberdeenshire
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents’ advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
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Running Time: 109 Minutes
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Ali, Oliver Chris

Belfast
2023-09-10 14:30 | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
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Running Time: 98 Minutes
Genre: Drama
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Jude Hill, Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan

Man Shed
2023-09-13 19:30 | The Little Theatre, Nairn, King Street, Nairn, Moray, IV12 4NP, United Kingdom
How does a man find his purpose when he grows older, and all the major life events come thick and fast? Should he retire to the solitude of The Shed as usual and escape from the world, or should he get out and try something new? When the familiar rules no longer apply, is it too late to change the habits of a lifetime?
Inspired by the work of the Scottish Men’s Sheds Association, “Man Shed” is a one-man theatre piece by Right Lines Productions which explores the joy of sheds, the pain of loss, and the comfort of friendship.

Man Shed
2023-09-15 19:00 | Findochty Town Hall, 22 Station Road, Findochty, Buckie, AB56 4PN, United Kingdom
How does a man find his purpose when he grows older, and all the major life events come thick and fast? Should he retire to the solitude of The Shed as usual and escape from the world, or should he get out and try something new? When the familiar rules no longer apply, is it too late to change the habits of a lifetime?
Inspired by the work of the Scottish Men’s Sheds Association, “Man Shed” is a one-man theatre piece by Right Lines Productions that explores the joy of sheds, the pain of loss, and the comfort of friendship.

Man Shed
2023-09-16 19:30 | Aberdeenshire

Budapest Cafe Orchestra
2023-09-20 19:30 | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom
Budapest Cafe Orchestra play a blistering barrage of traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia, Klezmer laments, Romanian Doinas, Hungarian Czadas and their own unique re-imaginings of some of the biggest tunes ever written by the classical greats. The Budapest Café Orchestra was established in 2009 by British composer and violinist, Christian Garrick, and led by him, have won legions of fans with their magical and infectious performances.
A small but impeccably formed orchestra of just four players, the BCO combines violin, guitar, accordion, double bass, saz & balalaika to dazzling effect, creating an awesome aural alchemy normally only characteristic of far bigger ensembles. Two of the country’s celebrated international soloists revel at the heart of proceedings. Accordionist exemplar Eddie Hession is a supreme accordion champion of Great Britain. In his illustrious career, he has accompanied Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Chris Rea. Christian Garrick is one of the world’s most celebrated jazz violinists. He has played with the likes of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, Wynton Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, Bireli Lagrene and Caro Emerald. Another member of the Orchestra is one of Russia’s most enigmatic musical exports. The Sultan is played expertly by Adrian Zolotuhin, a master of the strummed strings of domra, balalaika, guitar and saz. Veteran bass-man Kelly Cantlon has been in the business of laying down the low notes for many moons. Kelly found fame as a Vagabond with northern soul sensations Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.
Evoking vivid images of Tzigane fiddle maestros, Budapest café life and gypsy campfires – plus a few surprises along the way – hugely entertaining, immense skill and profound musicianship, a show by the BCO is good enough to make you want to book that holiday down the Danube!

AND (Relaxed Performance)
2023-09-22 19:30 | The Phoenix Centre, Newton Dee Village, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9DX, United Kingdom
A dance poem about wonder, worries, and being alive. A homage to the mothers and grandmothers who have danced before us and the children we are yet to meet, And invites us to consider our view of the world, to relate, debate, and dance.
Using honesty, charisma, and humour, Scottish dance artist Charlotte Mclean weaves contemporary and highland dance with personal stories, political commentary, and spoken word. Exploring being, belonging, friends, family, politics, climate change, independence, and reproductive rights to deliver an exciting, empowering, and fierce performance.And is a homage to; the earth, the cosmos, the minuscule, the magic, the meaning, the moment, the moments before and all that’s yet to come.

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