Saturday, December 6

Tag: New Celts Productions

Holly Street – theSpace on the Mile
Scotland

Holly Street – theSpace on the Mile

This is a play produced by Long Face Theatre Company and New Celts Productions, set in a meeting room where five writers brainstorm the 35th anniversary episode of Holly Street, a soap opera.  The writers plan, plot, squabble and tease until they inadvertently/magically slip into an alternate reality and in the process, they reveal to the audience who they really are behind their facades. So far, so interesting.  It’s the magical whiteboard, y’see – whatever’s written on it comes true and that gradually dawns on the writers, who manage to bravely and noisily unite to confront and overcome the zombie attack out with the performance space and reach the crescendo of the piece - returning to the ‘stage’ triumphant, much to the audience’s noisy appreciation. Yep, this is a v...
Take Me to Your Leader – theSpace on the Mile
Scotland

Take Me to Your Leader – theSpace on the Mile

Deep in the basement of Nebula Inc, a team of intrepid astrogeologists spot some weird rock markings on an alien world. Could this be evidence of life beyond our planet – or is it just another hoax? The interns are on strike, and they are torn between fighting for better pay and conditions and researching the discovery of a lifetime. Student Mae (Kikelomo Hassan) isn’t being paid at all, and she is really struggling to make ends meet. Billionaire man-baby Armie (Ewan Little) sends his assistant, the meticulous Johnson (Emily Mahi’ai) to bust the strike by any means necessary. Lex Davies’s script is lighthearted and very funny. It’s packed with references to sci-fi favourites like War of the Worlds and the works of Douglas Adams. The performers have a whale of a time playing the l...