PART ONE: CREATION & PLAY
Three Scottish artists with a passion for puppetry have each been given an award by Puppet Animation Scotland. Matched with three leading directors, each pair has created a ten minute piece of visual theatre. Apart from that, anything goes...
Divided by Two
Ailie Cohen & Gerry Mulgrew (Artistic Director, Communicado)
Pac a Mac
Shona Reppe & Mark Thomson (Artistic Director, Royal Lyceum Theatre)
Grit
Tortoise in a Nutshell & Dominic Hill (Artistic Director, Citizens Theatre)
Between each piece we will screen a programme of short films.
PART TWO: HER CUP OF TEA
TIP Connection, Finland & Estonia
The instant a tea bag is dropped into a cup of hot water, the irreversible happens: something is destroyed and something new is created. A moment as simple as this can be the moment your destiny is decided. Your love, your hope, your dreams can all hang on one person’s gaze, to be realised or dashed with simply a look.
In Chekov’s tragicomedy Uncle Vanya Sonja is the dutiful daughter of a bitter old man. Her predicament of undeclared love and a search for an escape from monotony is delicately explored in a play examining that most human of moments when the words ‘I love you’ are said with equal parts hope and dread.