Dealbh-cluich - Somersaults aig Iain F. MacLeod
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:41 pm
Fhuair mi seo sa phost-dealain an-diugh:
Somersaults
By Iain Finlay MacLeod
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Running time approx 60 minutes – no interval
Cast Includes - Angus Peter Campbell, Frances Grey, Tony Kearney, Barnaby Power and John Ramage.
Questions of identity, belonging and a sense of self are universal, no matter what language you speak.
Cambridge graduate James has it all: wealth, a beautiful wife, a swanky London flat. But when the creditors move in and his wife moves out, James suddenly finds he’s left with nothing. Nothing but words, and even they are starting to slip away.
James’ father is dying – his last connection to his childhood, his upbringing and the language of his birth, Gaelic. With this link gone, James fears he will simply cease to exist.
Am I sad that my language is dying?
Yes I am
I feel the edges of the light move in and wonder if one day there will only be me, or someone like me, carrying words for the world which no-one else knows.
The man looks at the objects and in the blink of an eye he remembers the words for the cream coloured flower on the potato stalk and the shuttle and the clipper for shearing the sheep and the little hoe and where the well is on the moor near the summer village and the peat cutting iron steeping in water for days before it is used.
Na facail bàrr-gùc am fl ùr air buntàta agus spàl agus deamhais airson bearradh nan caorach agus craman agus far a bheil an tobair air ‘a mhòinteach faisg air na h-àirighean agus tarsgeir air a’ bhogadh ann an uisge an latha mus tèid a chleachdadh.
Forced to confront his past and the conflict of identity within him, James explores the importance of language and how it defines who we are.
Traverse Theatre
Thu 10 - Sat 19 Mar (7pm)
Tickets Tue - Thu & Sun £8 (Unemployed £5)
Fri & Sat £12 (Unemployed £8)
Box office: 0131 228 1404
http://www.traverse.co.uk
Citizens Theatre
Wed 23 Mar to Sat 26 Mar
Ticket prices £12.50 (concessions available)
Box office: 0141 429 0022
http://www.citz.co.uk
Macphail Centre, Ullapool
Wed 30 Mar – 7.30pm (tbc)
Tickets: £ tbc
Box office: 01854 613336/mail@macphailcentre.co.uk
http://www.thebooth.co.uk
An Lanntair, Stornoway
Fri 1 April
Tickets: £10/£9/£8
Box office: 01851 708 480
http://www.lanntair.com
The show is mainly performed in English, but there is a scene in Gaelic and the production will use Gaelic music.