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| Inverness previews of National Theatre shows 04 May 2008 | |
| SCOTLAND'S national drama company is to extend its Inverness season with previews of a show before it begins a major run at the Edinburgh Festival and an adaption of a classic novel by one of science-fiction's greatest names. "365" is the National Theatre of Scotland's contribution to this year's Edinburgh International Festival, following previous successes with "Realism" and "The Bacchae", but Eden Court audiences will have a chance to see it first. The play, directed by Vicky Featherstone and reflecting the experiences of some of the 70,000 young people in the UK care system today, will have its world preview at Eden Court Theatre on Tuesday, 12th August, and will run until the following Saturday before transferring to Edinburgh Playhouse from 22nd to 25th August for its festival run and then London's Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith from 8th to 27th September. The other new National Theatre of Scotland production announced for Eden Court is an updated adaptation of Ray Bradbury's supernatural coming-of-age classic, "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Directed by Gill Robertson in a co-production with Catherine Wheels, the play comes to Eden Court as part of a national tour on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th October. It follows the adventures of two teenage boys, Jim and Will, after a sinister carnival arrives in their home town and is performed by an ensemble of eight actors and two musicians using an array of theatrical techniques, including video art and aerial performance. The play has been adapted from his own novel by Bradbury, one of America's most illustrious writers, whose most famous books include "Fahrenheit 451", "Dandelion Wine" and "The Martian Chronicles". Best known as a writer of science-fiction and fanstasy, he has also written poems, mysteries, mainstream fiction, drama and screenplays and has received numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the O. Henry Memorial Award, Benjamin Franklin Award and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The two plays will follow four other National Theatre of Scotland productions which will be seen at Eden Court in the coming months, beginning with "The Emperor's New Kilt". The other plays are an adaption of the Czech fantasy film "Little Otik" on 3rd and 4th June; "Exchange", when the National Theatre of Scotland's Learn team take up residence with the annual Youth Theatre Festival from 1st to 5th July; and "The Bacchae", featuring Broadway and film star Alan Cumming as the god Dionysus from 25th to 28th June. |
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