Is That A Whip In Your Hand?
2025-03-19 19:30 (Europe/London) | Johnshaven Village Hall, Mid Street, Johnshaven, Montrose, Angus, DD10 0HB, United Kingdom
Following performances in USA, UK and recently, Australia, Gavin Robertson focuses his attention on the fortune-hunter movie phenomenon encompassing everything from ‘Indiana Jones’ to ‘National Treasure’ via ‘Romancing The Stone’ – in his latest physical cartoon style adventure – spoofing the characters adored by millions, and exploding every cliché… solo!
Featuring the usual mix of clues, maps, travel and tricky situations, it’s minimum props, maximum effect as our hero searches for treasure via Columbia and Greece, evading trouble at every turn!
From the team that brought you DONE TO DEATH BY JOVE! His brand of physical comedy has toured the world with past productions such as THUNDERBIRDS F.A.B, SPITTOON and BOND- AN UNAUTHORISED PARODY touring in the UK, Europe, Brazil, Japan, Senegal, Chile, Taiwan, The Middle East, Costa Rica, India, Lebanon, Bosnia, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA.
Written and Performed by Gavin Robertson
Directed by Nicholas Collett.

Is That A Whip In Your Hand?
2025-03-20 19:30 | Aberdeenshire

Is That A Whip In Your Hand?
2025-03-21 19:30 | The Little Theatre, Nairn, King Street, Nairn, Moray, IV12 4NP, United Kingdom
Following performances in USA, UK and recently, Australia, Gavin Robertson focuses his attention on the fortune-hunter movie phenomenon encompassing everything from ‘Indiana Jones’ to ‘National Treasure’ via ‘Romancing The Stone’ – in his latest physical cartoon style adventure – spoofing the characters adored by millions, and exploding every cliché… solo!
Featuring the usual mix of clues, maps, travel and tricky situations, it’s minimum props, maximum effect as our hero searches for treasure via Columbia and Greece, evading trouble at every turn!
From the team that brought you DONE TO DEATH BY JOVE! His brand of physical comedy has toured the world with past productions such as THUNDERBIRDS F.A.B, SPITTOON and BOND- AN UNAUTHORISED PARODY touring in the UK, Europe, Brazil, Japan, Senegal, Chile, Taiwan, The Middle East, Costa Rica, India, Lebanon, Bosnia, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA.
Written and Performed by Gavin Robertson.
Directed by Nicholas Collett.

Is That A Whip In Your Hand?
2025-03-22 19:30 | Kemnay Village Hall, 8 Aquithie Road, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, AB51 5SS, United Kingdom

Is That A Whip In Your Hand?
2025-03-23 19:30 | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom

Caledonia (Relaxed Performance)
2025-03-26 19:30 | The Phoenix Centre, Newton Dee Village, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9DX, United Kingdom
This highly skilled Scottish duo Elsa McTaggart and Gary Lister bring you the best of Scotland’s folk and Celtic music. With their warmth and laughter, they create an atmosphere of ceilidh and craic, introducing music of old and threading it through modern arrangements and compositions with their many Celtic instruments and styles. Interspersed with storytelling and video footage, this is another gem of a show which will not disappoint.
From the producers of recent sell-out shows Eva Cassidy: The Story and Hebridean Fire comes another evening to remember. Elsa and Gary have been wowing audiences worldwide since 2011. Be prepared to see these sensational musicians take the stage by storm.
Established in 2009 by Elsa McTaggart and Gary Lister, Elsa McTaggart Music began in Gran Canaria and started touring the UK in 2011. In 2015 Europe was added to the tours establishing an enviable reputation for being a leading Scottish Duo in Europe and the UK. Elsa and Gary are making their debut with a show aimed squarely at those with a love of Scottish folk and Celtic music. Since being founded, Elsa McTaggart Music’s profile has been rising year-on-year.
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Dahomey
2025-03-27 19:00 | MacRobert Memorial Hall, The Square, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, AB34 YL, United Kingdom
Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.
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Running Time: 68 Minutes
Genre: Documentary
Director: Mati Diop
Starring: Lucrèce Hougbelo, Parfait Vaiayinon, Didier Sedoha Nassangade, Sabine Badjogoumin, Dowoti Desir

Caledonia
2025-03-27 19:30 | Tullynessle & Forbes Hall, Suie Road, Alford, Aberdeenshire, AB33 8QN, United Kingdom

Caledonia
2025-03-28 19:30 | Portgordon Village Hall, Cross Street, Portgordon, Buckie, Moray, AB56 5QW, United Kingdom

Caledonia
2025-03-29 19:00 | Fittie Community Hall, 7 New Pier Road, Footdee, Aberdeen, AB11 5DR, United Kingdom

Caledonia
2025-03-30 19:00 | Glenlivet Public Hall, Bridgend of Glenlivet, Ballindalloch, Moray, AB37 9BX, United Kingdom

Beachcomber Stories... Just in Case
2025-04-05 14:00 | Fittie Community Hall, 7 New Pier Road, Footdee, Aberdeen, AB11 5DR, United Kingdom
Something for everyone, young and old in these short, perfect pieces of theatre. Inside each case lives a story, Mermaids, Beachcombers, Kings and Crocodiles……….. A lovely magical show for all ages who love a story. Excellent puppetry and storytelling from this well-known Scottish Puppet Company.

You can watch a trailer here – Beachcomber Stories Just in Case

Paddington in Peru
2025-04-05 15:00 | Haddo House, Methlick, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, AB41 7EQ, United Kingdom
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
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Running Time: 106 Minutes
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Director: Dougal Wilson
Starring: Ben Wishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman, Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris

Beachcomber Stories... Just in Case
2025-04-06 14:30 | The Little Theatre, Nairn, King Street, Nairn, Moray, IV12 4NP, United Kingdom

Conclave
2025-04-06 14:30 | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.
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Running Time: 120 Minutes
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Edward Berger
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Carlos Diehz

Kim Edgar
2025-04-11 19:30 | Aberdeenshire
Edinburgh-based songwriter Kim Edgar performs original songs on piano, guitar and voice.
With four critically acclaimed solo albums, Kim has been described as “an example of everything that’s great about contemporary music” and “probably one of the best songwriters in Britain today.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Spiral Earth).
Kim also shares recent collaborations for her CONSEQUENCES album (launched at Celtic Connections 2023).
Emotion and connection are at the heart of Kim’s work. Kim ponders what it is to be human, creating stories told with honesty and empathy that open hearts, minds and discussions.

Elves & The Shoemaker
2025-04-12 14:00 | Aberdeenshire
Elves & The Shoemaker is coming to Aberdeenshire.
Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre have produced a beautiful puppet theatre show for family audiences. A struggling Shoemaker is down to his last pair of shoes and is afraid he will lose his little shop if business doesn’t improve.
2 mischievous Elves have come to live there and decide to make some funny and unusual shoes to help him. Beautifully carved wooden puppets tell this heartwarming story of Kindness in hard times.
More information at www.clydebuiltpuppet.co.uk
Firmly established as one of Scotland’s leading puppet theatre companies, Clydebuilt tour far and wide throughout the UK from Inverness to London and Ireland. The company has also toured internationally to Europe, China and Dubai. Clydebuilt are well known for their masterly puppet manipulation skills and performances of quality.
Originally formed in 1987 Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre is a partnership between Leigh McCalister (Ireland) and Stephen Smart (Scotland). Together they create and perform a wide variety of inspiring and entertaining shows for children and family audiences.

Wicked
2025-04-12 14:00 | Banff Castle, Castle Street, Banff, Aberdeenshire, AB45 1DL, United Kingdom
In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two’s unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfil their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
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Running Time: 162 Minutes
Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Director: Jon M. Chu
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode

Conclave
2025-04-12 19:00 | Banff Castle, Castle Street, Banff, Aberdeenshire, AB45 1DL, United Kingdom

The Illusionist
2025-04-24 19:00 | MacRobert Memorial Hall, The Square, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, AB34 YL, United Kingdom
The Illusionist is one of a dying breed of stage entertainers. With emerging rock stars stealing his thunder in the late 1950s, he is forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theatres, at garden parties and in bars and cafés. Then, while performing in a village pub off the west coast of Scotland, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever. Watching his performance for the excited villagers who are celebrating the arrival of electricity on their remote island, Alice is awestruck by his show and believes his tricks are real magic. Though they don’t speak the same language, the two lonely strangers quickly bond through small kindnesses. Fascinated by The Illusionist, Alice stows away on his departing ship and follows him to Edinburgh. There, they quickly fall into a father – daughter relationship, with Alice keeping their home at a boarding house for vaudevillians, while he goes to work in a small local theatre. Enchanted by her enthusiasm for his act, The Illusionist rewards Alice with increasingly lavish gifts he has “conjured” into existence. Desperate not to disappoint her, he cannot bring himself to reveal that magic does not exist and that he’s driving himself to ruin working all night jobs to buy her gifts. As The Illusionist grows older, Alice grows up. She falls in love with a young man and is no longer so enchanted by The Illusionist’s conjuring. She moves on with her life, and The Illusionist no longer has to pretend. Untangled from his own web of deceit, he resumes his life as a much wiser man. The script for The Illusionist was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from a father to his daughter, but never produced.
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Running Time: 80 Minutes
Genre: Animation
Director: Sylvain Chomet

Sonrisa - Very Much Alive!
2025-04-24 20:00 | Aberdeenshire
SONRISA are an exciting rootsy acoustic trio playing original heartfelt songs blending nylon Spanish guitar and infectious Latin-inspired rhythms with mellow flute and soulful vocals.
VERY MUCH ALIVE! takes you on an exhilarating journey through the emotions with onstage banter and captivating songs, which one minute pull at your heartstrings and the next have you tapping your feet and daring you to join in.
Pronounced S-on-ree-sah, meaning ‘smile’ in Spanish, a good time is guaranteed.

Sonrisa - Very Much Alive!
2025-04-25 19:30 | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom

Sonrisa - Very Much Alive!
2025-04-26 19:30 | Kemnay Village Hall, 8 Aquithie Road, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, AB51 5SS, United Kingdom

Meet The Buchanans
2025-04-30 19:30 | Aberdeenshire
An off-beat documentary about the inauguration of the first Clan Buchanan Chief in over 300 years. When it comes to holding the ceremony, and historical records can’t be found, most of it is being invented.
Historical fact and historical fiction collide as we join the Chief (millionaire Scottish landowner Mike Buchanan) his wife Lady Paula, and their teenage family, and tartan-mad enthusiasts from around the world descend on deepest Perthshire for the ceremony. Among them, two American sisters who wear the Buchanan tartan loud and proud, and Mexican Pedro Buchanan, the man with a passion for distilling. All of them drawn by kinship, connection, and the excitement of celebrating the Clan’s first chief in living memory.
A three-day bonanza of ceremony and regalia is planned on their magnificent Highland estate. His wife Lady Paula, the driving force behind his claim to the title, is now the chief architect of his ‘coronation’. As she sets about commissioning a new set of clan Jewels (coronet, sword and rod), a stone throne… following in the footsteps of a famous past Buchanan house guest, the nineteenth-century Scottish writer Walter Scott.
A hidden world of British wealth and privilege unfolds as the family uncover and invent fresh entitlements of the new role: revealing not only whether they can pull off this massive event, but also how history is made (up).
Meet the Buchanans takes a sideways look at raising important questions around identity, historical values and traditions, belonging, and the place of Clans in the modern world.
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Join us for an engaging post-screening Q&A session with Prof. Alison Lumsden, Regius Chair of English Literature at Aberdeen University, and Barbara Orton, the film’s producer. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain insights from two distinguished experts!

Can’t make the date? Don’t miss out! Also screening at Fittie Community Hall on Friday 6 June 2025 @ 7:00pm – CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Casablanca
2025-05-02 19:00 | Banff Castle, Castle Street, Banff, Aberdeenshire, AB45 1DL, United Kingdom
Casablanca (1942) is a classic romantic drama set during World War II. The story revolves around Rick Blaine, a cynical American who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco. His life is turned upside down when his former lover, Ilsa, arrives with her resistance-leader husband, seeking Rick’s help to escape the Nazis. The film masterfully weaves themes of love, sacrifice, and redemption, earning its place as one of cinema’s greatest treasures.
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Running Time: 102 Minutes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre

The Knitting Pilgrim
2025-05-02 19:30 | Portgordon Village Hall, Cross Street, Portgordon, Buckie, Moray, AB56 5QW, United Kingdom
A top Fringe Pick at three festivals and performed 85+ times across Ontario, the Maritimes, in Austria, Germany and the US, this must-see one-man interdisciplinary show & talkback has played in theatres, museums, places of worship, and community centres. Kirk Dunn knits by three huge projection screens and recounts his story as an actor, writer, knitter, and preacher’s kid.
Prompted by 9/11, he decided to knit three tapestries, designed as stained-glass windows, exploring the commonalities and conflicts of the Abrahamic faiths. The project took him fifteen years to complete. In a show that’s all about knitting and not about knitting at all, Kirk looks at the rise of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and fear of the other, and shares his journey knitting the tapestries: artistic self-doubt, financial despair, and the value of a loving partner who is willing to be a butt-kicking muse.
You’ll laugh, cry, and even do some knitting yourself while Kirk celebrates diversity and concludes that the three faiths have the same goal: peace. When he pulls down the screens revealing the one-of-a-kind work, you’re invited to come close and engage in conversation that will leave you feeling connected, inspired and having participated in an evening unlike any other.
And don’t forget to #BYOK – Bring Your Own Knitting. Knitting during the show is encouraged! But if you are not a knitter, you will love the show just as much as the knitters will.

The Knitting Pilgrim
2025-05-03 19:30 | Braemar Village Hall, 33 Mar Road, Braemar, Aberdeenshire, AB35 5YL, United Kingdom

The Knitting Pilgrim
2025-05-04 19:30 | MacRobert Memorial Hall, The Square, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, AB34 YL, United Kingdom

Beachcomber Stories... Just in Case
2025-05-10 14:30 | Tullynessle & Forbes Hall, Suie Road, Alford, Aberdeenshire, AB33 8QN, United Kingdom

A Complete Unknown
2025-05-11 14:30 | New Deer Public Hall, Church Crescent, New Deer, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 6WD, United Kingdom
In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a ground-breaking performance that reverberates around the world.
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Running Time: 140 Minutes
Genre: Drama, Music
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Scoot McNairly, Dan Fogler, Boyd Holbrook
