Dogstar's new production, Henry Adam's comedy JACOBITE COUNTRY will play in tandem with THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS  at the UNDERBELLY'S COW BARN, otherwise known as Reid Concert Hall during this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  This beautiful 300-seat venue provides an excellent stage for our shows in Bristo Square, one of the most vibrant hubs of the Fringe.  JACOBITE COUNTRY  will run from August 5th - 30th at  2.30pm.  This will be a second Fringe run for THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS after selling out in 2008.  It will run from August 7th - 30th at 12.45 pm.  More details to follow.

We have also secured support from the Scottish Arts Council for our tour to Poland, Ukraine and Berlin with THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS.  This will take place in October.  The show will be presented at the Golden Lion festival, Lviv, Ukraine, Konfrontacje Teatralne (Theatre Confrontations Festival), Lublin, Poland and at the English Theatre, Berlin.  We are in the process of getting the play translated into Ukrainian and Polish for supertitling.  The Ukrainian literary magazine VSESVIT also plans to publish the play to mark our visit.  Further performances in Ukraine are being set up with dates expected in the capital Kyiv, the cities of Ternopil and Lutsk, and in Pidhaiytsi, the small town close to the tailor's birthplace.   An additional date at Zielona Gora University in Poland is also being planned.  More details to follow.

THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS will commence its 2010 series of performances at the NAIRN ARTS & BOOK FESTIVAL on June 11th with an additional date during that week at Clashmore, Dornoch currently being set up.
 
 
A screening of a performance recording of The Tailor of Inverness took place on March 5th at the Ukrainian Club in Edinburgh.  This was held as a joint fundraising event for Dogstar's planned tour to Ukraine and Poland this autumn, and for The Scottish Friends of Ukraine, a charitable organisation which exists to foster social, cultural and business links between the two countries. 

Around 70 attended the screening, including several World War Two veterans and second and third generation Scottish Ukrainians.  Most of the Ukrainians who settled in Scotland after the war were from Galicia or Halychyna, where the story of The Tailor of Inverness originates.
 
 
We are currently booking our next Scottish Tour with Henry Adam's new comedy Jacobite Country.  The play is set in the world of the Highland dispossessed, a gallery of lowlifes and fantasists whose tall tales, excesses and dreams weave a grotesque, absurd and strangely beautiful world which is at once real and imaginary.  Francisco Goya in contemporary Wick.


The show is slated for a run at the Edinburgh Fringe following previews at Eden Court Theatre Inverness.  The tour currently includes performances at Carnegie Hall Dunfermline, Lyth Arts Centre, Orkney Arts theatre Kirkwall, Strathpeffer Pavilion, Macphail Centre Ullapool, An Lanntair Stornoway, Tron Theatre Glasgow, Plockton Village Hall, Druimfin Mull, Arainn Shuaeneirt Strontian, Craignish Hall Ardfern, Woodend Barn Banchory and the Byre Theatre St. Andrews.  A full touring schedule with details of Edinburgh Fringe dates will be posted soon.

We're also planning a second Edinburgh Fringe run for Matthew Zajac's multi-award-winning show The Tailor of Inverness.  This will be followed by an extensive tour.  This will include dates in Scotland and Wales and tour of Eastern Europe.  The show has been invited to the Golden Lion Festival in Lviv, the main city of Western Ukraine and to the Konfrontacje Festival in Lublin, Poland.  Additional dates in Poland and Ukraine are being organised along with a week-long run at the English Theatre, Berlin.  It will be very exciting to present The Tailor of Inverness in the countries where the story originates. 

We'll keep you up to date as these tours develop.
 
 
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