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Dateline: 23rd February, 2010
The NTS from July to December The National Theatre of Scotland has announced its programme from July to December. Highlights include two productions in Edinburgh in August and the return of Black Watch. The new season opens with Exchange 2010, the fifth annual celebration of Scottish youth theatre, which this year will be at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews from 5th to 10th July. Taking part will be East Renfrewshire Youth Theatre; Creative Electric: Young Company, Edinburgh; Academy Arts, Dumfries; Byre Youth Theatre, St Andrews; Eden Court Young Company, Inverness; Tron Skillshops, Glasgow and Cork Midsummer Festival Young Performers Ensemble. A second international company will be announced later. The company will take part in both the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe. The show for the EIF, details to be announced on 17th March at the Festival launch, will preview at Eden Court, Inverness, and the Fringe show will be a co-production with Frantic Assembly, Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery, directed by Frantic Assembly co-directors Steven Hoggett (Associate Director on Black Watch) and Scott Graham (Director of Home Inverness). It will form part of ther Pleasance programme from 4th to 29th August, and will then tour to Tramway, Glasgow (2nd to 11th September) and York Hall, London, in association with the Barbican (16th September to 2nd October). Further tour dates will be announced later. Black Watch, probably the NTS' most successful production, will will play at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow (15th September to 9th October) and at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (13th to 23rd October). Further UK and international dates to be announced. In November the National Theatre of Scotland will have its first pub tour. Celebrating the Scots language Border Ballads and Scottish folk tales, this tour reunites leading Scottish writer David Greig and director Wils Wilson following the success of their award-winning children's show, Gobbo. The tour will include dates at Owen's Bar, Coatbridge; The Maltings, Berwick on Tweed; The Pheasant, Jedburgh and The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool, and more dates and venues will be announced later. Entitled The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, the play tells the story of Prudencia Hart, a collector of folk songs, an academic who has devoted her life to the study of folk material. She comes to the village fair in search of songs for her thesis 'Paradigms of Emotional Contact in The Performance and Text of Traditional Folk Song in Scotland 1572 - 1798'. After the fair she finds herself at a "lock-in" with the locals where songs are sung and stories told. That's when she hears of the existence of the lost song, the song beyond song… the original song… the uncollected song. She sets off on a journey into the night to find it. Audiences are invited to share a "lock-in" with the National Theatre of Scotland's company of actors and participate in an evening of supernatural story-telling, music and theatre inspired by the Border Ballads, Burns and the poems of Robert Service.
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