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Dateline: 27th November, 2011

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NTS: April to November 2012

The National Theatre of Scotland has announced its programming from April to November 2012.

In April and May The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig and Wils Wilson returns with a Scottish tour and a subsequent UK and international tour. The company will collaborate with GI Festival for the first time with The Making of…… A collaboration with Graham Eatough and Graham Fagen and an exploration in film, theatre and visual art, at the Tramway, Glasgow.

In addition the company partners with Oran Mor again to present the One Day in Spring with brand new pieces of work from across the Arab world, curated by David Greig. The season will play for six weeks at Oran Mor, Glasgow with a subsequent run at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

The National Theatre of Scotland will experiment with Carbon Lite Theatre for the first time, taking to the road on bicycles to perform award-winning writer and illustrator Harry Horse's The Last Polar Bears in primary schools and community centres across the lowlands of Scotland.

Finally Vicky Featherstone and Abi Morgan's 27 returns with runs at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

In June and July Alan Cumming returns to Scotland with a new and radical take on Macbeth. His solo show will be directed by John Tiffany and Andy Goldberg and will have performances at tramway, Glasgow before transferring to the Lincoln Center, New York, and the popular Exchange festival, now in its 6th year, returns to macrobert, Stirling, with the premieres of six new pieces of theatre by Scottish Youth Theatres and two by international Youth Theatres.

Productions from September to November include:

  • My Shrinking Life brings together leading Scottish theatre maker Alison Peebles and radical European director, Lies Pauwels, to take us through Alison's personal struggle with MS. Touring Scotland, opening at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.
  • The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and the National Theatre of Scotland will presenta new production of The Guid Sisters by Michel Tremblay, in Scots translation by Bill Findlay, directed by Canadian director, Serge Denoncourt.
  • Adrian Howells presents a new site specific project, lifeguard, set in the derelict Govanhill Baths in Glasgow.
  • A brand new musical for Scotland, conceived and directed by Cora Bissett tells the feel good story of Glasgow teenagers with a cause. Glasgow Girls is at the Citizens Theatre. A co-production with Theatre Royal Stratford East, Pachamama Productions, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with Citizens Theatre and Merrigong Theatre Company (Australia)
  • Finally the company partners with Vox Motus for the first time to present a magical new show for families, Dragon, directed by Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds.

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©Peter Lathan 2011