An exciting lineup has been announced for the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival Autumn/Winter programme.
Communities across the region will be treated to incredible productions and outdoor performances including theatre, music, dance, comedy and spoken word.
First up in the Arts Live programme is Alice Mary Cooper who will present her new show The Bush following the success of her previous solo work Waves.
In this one-woman performance, Alice recalls the inspiring true story of 13 1970s housewives who battled for 10 years to save bushland in her native Sydney – starting a nationwide movement of Green Bans protecting land and the natural environment from destruction across Australia.
The show will be at the Crichton Estate on August 1, Gracefield Arts Centre on August 3 and the Market Hill, Castle Douglas, on Friday, August 5.
Lost in Music from Magnetic North will be heading to the Theatre Royal Dumfries on September 22. It is a new gig theatre show inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: the story of a talented musical couple’s journey to hell and back. The team will also be supporting Paragon as a network member to promote their conference, All In: Access and Inclusion in the Arts.
This is the region’s first conference focusing on inclusive and accessible practice and policies in the arts, bringing an opportunity to establish a network of organisations committed to a more inclusive Dumfries and Galloway, with live performances from artists with lived experience of the barriers preventing participation. It takes place on October 7 at the CatStrand, New Galloway.
Performance Collective will be presenting its show in October that was commissioned by the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival before lockdown in 2020, Unsupervised Adulting.
The production is non-verbal and all storytelling is delivered through movement. As such, the production is suitable for deaf audience members.
Wonderfools are heading back to the region after their successful tour of Dumfries and Galloway in 2021, this time bringing their incredibly insightful show 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War.
Told from a small pub in Prestonpans, East Lothian, four millennials hear a story and in a divided 2022 it brings us back to a tale of four miners who gave up everything that was familiar for a land that was not theirs, for a people they had never met and for a cause they believed was right.
The show will be performed at Castle Douglas Town Hall on October 25 and 26 and Moffat Town Hall on October 27.
Jordan & Skinner will also present The Time Machine: A Radical Feminist Retelling at the CatStrand on November A story about The Bunker. The apocalypse is coming and it’s coming for you. In a secret bunker, a group of feminists are taking matters into their own hands as they contemplate impending doom and ask if it’s all to late to turn things around.
Jordan & Skinner will also be facilitating a Devising Physical Theatre Workshop at the CatStrand on November 8 where they will teach their process of exploring themes, developing characters and shaping these into stories for stage.
Meanwhile, a traveller lands in the year 802.701 to discover the fate of future humans and tries to unravel how it all came down to this. Join this fiery and furious company of extremists for a tale of time travel, survival and human evolution in a bold and irreverent reimagining of H.G. Wells science fiction classic.
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival will also present its all-new Symposium on November 24 at Easterbrook Hall, reflecting on what the future of Arts Live looks like and they want your input.
Visit www.dgartsfestival.org.uk for ticket information.
