NSTF year 1: 2010-2011
The Northern Scottish Touring Fund selection panel has chosen the following 4 applications to go forward for production / touring funding in Round 1 of the fund (2010 - 2011):
Mull Theatre & Wildbird - 'The Mysterious Death of Netta Fornario'
Open Book - 'Macbeth'
Puppet Lab - 'Dark Matter'
Charioteer Theatre - 'Get me out of here ... I'm a Shakespearean character!'
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The NSTF Selection Panel has decided to short list the following applications for further consideration by the NEAT and PAN Promoters:
Alasdair Satchel - 'Thursday'
Charioteer Theatre - 'Get me out of here...I'm a Shakespearean Character'
Mull Theatre - 'The Mysterious Death of Netta Fornario'
Open Book - 'Macbeth'
Puppet Lab - 'Dark Matter'
Zenwing Puppets - 'Skeleton Woman'
A final decision will then be made on the selection for the commissioning of up to a maximum of four productions for Round 1 of NSTF funding.
Further details of the productions and venue tour dates will be posted here once the funds for Round 1 have been awarded.
Applications received in Round 1 were:
NSTF R1/2010/1 - Arts in Motion / Cartoon Theatre - "The Return of the Bungee Jumper"
In an extension of their very popular house style, this is a comedy adventure in the world of extreme sports, using animation and live performance. The show will be produced in two versions - Gaelic and English - suitable for adults and children.
NSTF R1/2010/2 - Right Lines Productions - "Morrison's Van"
A complete evening of professional entertainment, weaving local input with a unique theatrical experience. Five episodes of a gripping radio serial performed on stage in five different venues. See one live - catch the others online. A total multi-platform experience!
NSTF R1/2010/3 - Right Lines Productions - "From These Parts"
This production will be a fast moving comedy that revels in revalation through the ridiculous. The proposal is to examine the issues of aliens and alienation - and what exactly does it mean to be a local. The show will explore cultural identity in a Scottish Sci-fi comedy context.
NSTF R1/2010/4 - The Puppet Lab - "Dark Matter"
Dark Matter will be a spine tingling story set in a garden large enough to accommodate an audience of 25 - 30 at a time. It will be entertaining and scary, suitable for 14+ and will ride the zeitgeist of current vampire horror flicks to appeal to the 'hard to reach' youth audience 15 - 20 years old.
NSTF R1/2010/5 - Charioteer Theatre - "Get me out of here! I'm a Shakespearean character"
Prospero believes modern life has alienated the public from appreciating the value of the classics. Gathering the lead characters of all Shakespeare's plays on an island, the Reality Show format asks the audience to consider the characters and their plays from a more contemporary perspective.
NSTF R1/2010/6 - Zenwing Puppets - "Skeleton Woman"
A traditional Inuit story retold through the humour and power of puppetry. The highly visual puppets will be combined with a new musical score using digitalised natural sounds and pipes. Like all good fairy tales the strory works on different levels, appealing to a wide age range.
NSTF R1/2010/7 - Mull Theatre & Wildbird (co-production) - "The Mysterious Death of Netta Fornario"
A co-production by Mull Theatre and Wildbird. A Gothic tale of magic, madness, murder and mystery set on Iona in 1930. Mixes fiction with real events of the unexplained and still controversial death of Netta Fornario, using stagecraft to create a spine chilling audience experience.
NSTF R1/2010/8 - Plutôt la Vie - "By the seat of your pants"
A new Scottish touring production, in a clown style, for family and community audiences, young and old. A visual story that reveals itself through relationships: between characters, the objects they use, their environment, relationship with the audience and the performance space.
NSTF R1/2010/9 - Open Book: Plays by Writers Ltd - "Macbeth by William Shakespeare
In this modern staging of Shakespeare's classic Scottish play, Macbeth is trapped by his paranoia as his family, his friends and fate itself turn against him. Set around a dinner table placing the banquet at the centre of the action and the audience as guests, combining theatre and magic.
NSTF R1/2010/10 - Alasdair Satchel - "Thursday"
A solo physical theatre piece examining personal freedoms inspired by GK Chesterton's novel 'The man who was Thursday'. Informed by contemporary concerns about terrorism, global pandemics, the surveillance society; and age old concerns about agencies working outside our ken.
NSTF R1/2010/11 - Smallpetitklein Dance Company - "Falling Man"
Creating and touring the new, full-length dance work 'Falling Man', fusing dance, animation, film and set to a sound-score by composer Scanner. Inspired by a series of pictures by Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Centre on 11/09/2001.