Welcome to the Dogstar Theatre website.
Our next show, opening in January 2012 at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow as part of the Celtic Connections Music Festival, is a revival of Hamish MacDonald's The Captain's Collection, a music theatre production which won great acclaim when it was first produced in 1999. With a top-class cast and production team, the show will go on to tour throughout Scotland in May 2012. More details on our news page.
"...an engrossing treat...fascinating and provocative music theatre." THE SCOTSMAN
Demand for The Tailor of Inverness continues. We returned from the Szene:Schottland Festival at Societaetstheater, Dresden in May where the show received a great reception. We'll be taking the production to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA for a week of performances in late January 2012 and tours of
Our next show, opening in January 2012 at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow as part of the Celtic Connections Music Festival, is a revival of Hamish MacDonald's The Captain's Collection, a music theatre production which won great acclaim when it was first produced in 1999. With a top-class cast and production team, the show will go on to tour throughout Scotland in May 2012. More details on our news page.
"...an engrossing treat...fascinating and provocative music theatre." THE SCOTSMAN
Demand for The Tailor of Inverness continues. We returned from the Szene:Schottland Festival at Societaetstheater, Dresden in May where the show received a great reception. We'll be taking the production to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA for a week of performances in late January 2012 and tours of
Denmark, Sweden and Ireland are currently being set up for early 2013. The production has also been invited to Israel, Belarus and Iran.
Hamish MacDonald and actress Irene Allan spent a week in Devon earlier this year, where they spent a very productive week with Iranian artists Sasan Pirouz and Hassan Madjouni developing initial ideas for a new international project.
You can find out about our numerous productions and the many talented individuals the company works with on our Productions, History and About Us pages. There is a page for promoters who are interested in presenting our work, gallery pages with a host of production pictures and a link to video clips of three of our productions and a simple way of joining our mailing list. We welcome any queries or comments, so please contact us.
In recent years, Dogstar has established itself as one of Scotland's leading touring theatre companies. We are based in the Scottish Highlands in Inverness, one of Europe’s fastest growing small cities. Our productions tour throughout Scotland and internationally. Our work springs directly from the Highlands’ defining characteristics: a stunningly beautiful and harsh natural landscape; a tumultuous and marginalised history; a shifting and changing population; a vibrant oral and musical tradition. Our productions endeavour to speak to our audiences in the Highlands and beyond using some of Scotland’s best actors, musicians, writers, directors and designers.
For us, theatre is a place for debate and celebration, for ideas and entertainment, for a few laughs, a few tears, a challenge to the mind and a memorable night out.
At its heart, its about communication between the actor and the audience. It can’t exist without you.
Hamish MacDonald and actress Irene Allan spent a week in Devon earlier this year, where they spent a very productive week with Iranian artists Sasan Pirouz and Hassan Madjouni developing initial ideas for a new international project.
You can find out about our numerous productions and the many talented individuals the company works with on our Productions, History and About Us pages. There is a page for promoters who are interested in presenting our work, gallery pages with a host of production pictures and a link to video clips of three of our productions and a simple way of joining our mailing list. We welcome any queries or comments, so please contact us.
In recent years, Dogstar has established itself as one of Scotland's leading touring theatre companies. We are based in the Scottish Highlands in Inverness, one of Europe’s fastest growing small cities. Our productions tour throughout Scotland and internationally. Our work springs directly from the Highlands’ defining characteristics: a stunningly beautiful and harsh natural landscape; a tumultuous and marginalised history; a shifting and changing population; a vibrant oral and musical tradition. Our productions endeavour to speak to our audiences in the Highlands and beyond using some of Scotland’s best actors, musicians, writers, directors and designers.
For us, theatre is a place for debate and celebration, for ideas and entertainment, for a few laughs, a few tears, a challenge to the mind and a memorable night out.
At its heart, its about communication between the actor and the audience. It can’t exist without you.
