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Kids Wae Nae Hame
Remember the Kids from Fame? It’s time to meet the Kids with Nae Hame. Experience what it's like to grow up in care in the 1980s. Witness first-hand how they leave care, and adjust to independent living. Moving to present times, the show addresses the effects the care system has had on those who grow up it – and what is can be done to assist the care-experienced community. Created by care-experienced people, with songs from the hit TV series to enjoy. The songs represent a lifeline that help these kids cope with their ever-changing environment.
No One is Coming
'A love letter to my mother that I’ll never send...' A storytelling performance about a mother and daughter, based on real-life events and encompassing elements of Irish folklore. Full of anecdotes, myths, funny stories and tough truths, it’s a rollercoaster experience inside a fun (if slightly traumatised) woman’s brain. This is not only about those with mental-health issues, it is about those that care for, love and grow up with them. 'O’Brien is stellar. This is storytelling as it should be' ***** (Herald). 'A masterpiece' ***** (EdFringeReview.com). 'Absolutely gripping' **** (ScotsGayArts.com). 'Mesmeric to watch' **** (CorrBlimey.uk).
Age: 16+
Dates: Aug 7th and Aug 18th
We have a number of free tickets available for both of these showings. Please email comms@whocaresscotland.org to book.
Scaffolding
Scaffolding is a new play produced in association with Bristol Old Vic and Pleasance Theatre Trust as part of their Edinburgh National Partnerships award. Sheridan is having a bad day. Her church is closing, Adult Social Care are on her case, and she can’t work out what ingredients she needs from Homebase to make a bomb. With no one else to turn to, she climbs the scaffolding around the leaking church steeple with a few questions for Whoever Is In Charge.
Age: 14+
Dates: Jul 31 Aug 1-13, 15-26
We have unlimited free tickets on the 31st and 1st of August and more some for the other dates. Please email comms@whocaresscotland.org to book.
Darren McGarvey: Trauma Industrial Complex – Trauma and Oversharing in the Age of Lived Experience
Trauma is everywhere. Central to its salience is the notion of telling one’s story. Culture demands the authentic testimony of those with 'lived experience' of trauma, but what happens after you put it all out there? Deconstructing the adversity which brought him to wider public attention – growing up in an alcoholic home before descending into addiction himself – McGarvey explores the role personal narratives play in both hurting and healing, and examines the risks involved in telling your story publicly.
Man & Board
At first Man & Board is an unlikely pairing of Rob's moving body with a ritualised wooden board with which he sings, he dances, he wins and he loses. Dig deeper to find a solo – arguably a duet – infused with autobiographical and queer undertones. An impassioned show about tradition, heritage, and masculinity where a gay father celebrates his Irish cultural heritage as he passes it on to his adopted son. Sharing traditional love songs and lullabies, Man and Board brings old traditions into new places, new times. Programmed by Dance Base in collaboration with Assembly.
Age: 12+
Dates: Aug 13-14, 16-18, 20-21, 23-25
We have a number of free tickets available. Please email Comms@whocaresscotland.org to book.
Precious Cargo
As children they were evacuated from a war zone. Fifty years on, Barton and Andy are still trying to find out who they are. Precious Cargo is a powerful, timely new show about the life-long impact of the Vietnam war, by Australian writer-performer Barton Williams (Huynh van Cuong) and Hebridean composer Andy Yearley (Nguyen Tang). Drawing on interviews with Operation Babylift adoptees from across the world, it is a story about the chaos of conflict, childhood trauma, racism and a generation running out of time to find lost families. Directed by Fringe First winner Laura Cameron-Lewis.
Age: 12+
Dates: Aug 1-11, 13-18, 20-26
We have a limited number free tickets for this show. Please email comms@whocaresscotland.org to book.
How I Learned to Swim
Jamie can’t swim. Bit awkward when you’re 30. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, Jamie is taking on her biggest fear, the ocean. With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide and one cathartic crab sandwich, she’s questioning, ‘how many lengths does it take to wash away regret?’ Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of Black people’s relationship to water. Somebody Jones’ searing debut is 'funny with fear, liberating with grief' (FringeReview.co.uk) and impossible to walk away from unchanged.
Review a Play
We're looking for members to review the following plays: Precious Cargo, Scaffolding and No One is Coming.
If you love theatre and would like two tickets to see one of these shows for free please email comms@whocaresscotland.org.
Reviews should be roughly 500 words. You can review more than one play if you wish.
