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Garioch Theatre Festival

 

 

The Garidge Theatre Company was set up in 2004 by Rhona Mitchell with the express purpose of running a theatre festival in Inverurie bringing a mix of amateur and professional work to the town. As well as providing an opportunity for her own students to perform, the company will introduce a range of touring professional productions to a local audience. 

This will be the fifth Garioch Theatre Festival, firmly establishing it as an important annual arts event in the North-East. The committee have all brought their own skills to the project - Rhona Mitchell, Pamela Barrie, Charles Barron, Ashley Forbes, Kenny Fraser, Claire Gauld, Tina Olsen, Alison Telfer, and Michael Watt.

 

The 2009 Festival ran for two weeks starting on the 18th June.

Aberdeenshire Youth Theatre (MSD) premiered their production 'Our Scotland'

Directed & choreographed by Rhona Mitchell with songs by Ashley Forbes & Robert Burns

Their take on Homecoming year and all things Scottish, in the style of the nation’s favourite form of entertainment – the television. Fiddles, bagpipes, sheep, castles, whisky, golf, Burns, tatties, tartan, porridge and a look at the life of the ordinary Scot.

 

 

 

Visit the Garioch Theatre Festival website here

Click HERE for 'Our Scotland' photographs

 

 

The 2008 Festival included the Garidge Theatre with Mitchell School of  Drama performing a new work based on the records of the Poorhouses of the North-East - 'Lottie'.

There also was a professional show for children - "Jabberwocky", a further professional production from Cultural Connections and two new theatre pieces. There was Puppetry and Physical/Mime workshops, a performance featuring 'Oceans 3', plus a Community Open Day and Art and Heritage Exhibitions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provisional Programme 2009

 

18th – 20th June                             Our Scotland

18th onwards                                  Photography Exhibition

21st June                                         Briar Rose

22nd June                                        In a Thousand Pieces

23rd June                                         Dance Workshop 1

25th June                                         Pint & A Piece of Theatre

26th June                                         Ceilidh

27th June                                         Community Day

27th June                                         Guts

28th June                                         At Aden

28th June                                         Dance Workshop 2

 

 

 

This year's festival also included  Folding Theatre Company’s ‘Briar Rose’  and for Scotframe’s Community Weekend, a family ceilidh, dance workshops, community day (a chance for young people to get together and create some theatre in one day), Fleeman Productions’ ‘Guts’, and open-air theatre at Aden Country Park.




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