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​Dogstar Theatre Company
​in association with An Lanntair

The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil 
August premiere at An Lanntair  August 30 and 31
Touring Scotland October 3 to 30

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The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil
A musical tragicomedy


with
  • Naomi Stirrat
  • Rachel Kennedy
  • Chloe-Ann Tylor
 
Director: Matthew Zajac
Set & Costume Design: Ali Maclaurin
Lighting Design:  Andrew Wilson
Sound Design: Pippa Murphy
Video: Jim Hope
Original Songs by:
Willie Campbell, Kevin MacNeil & Colin Macleod 
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Adapted by Kevin MacNeil from his best-selling novel, The Stornoway Way is full of wit and wisdom, both a romantic evocation and a scabrous critique of the Isle of Lewis  - “a great and symbolic chip off Scotland’s shoulder”.  
 
The play tells the story of Roman Stornoway, a struggling musician, and his best friend Eilidh.  Both are disaffected underachievers, who use alcohol to fuel and delay their dreams of escape from the island.  They eventually manage to make their way to the city, where Roman is smitten by the mysterious Hungarian student Eva. 
 
With a variety of voices from Lewis and a musical soundtrack featuring original and traditional songs in Gaelic and English, The Stornoway Way  is irreverent, witty and honest, a bittersweet theatrical romcom, twisted, squeezed out and hungover, a story about the search for the ideal, the desire for happiness and the struggle to come to terms with who you are, versus who you want to be.
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"The Stornoway Way is an entropic tale of energies sparked to life and quenched by landscape, language and culture. It is also a novel of consistently hilarious verbal invention. Roman is 30, an intermittent artist and ex-busker who has fled the island and failed to find the life he dreamt of. Returned, he lives as if nothing has altered. He and his contemporaries - ex-lover Eilidh, the faded beauty Karen and lost souls like Joe Idea and Jimmy the Tongue from Tong - spiral boozily about the memory of hopes past."
The Independent

“Does for the Western Isles what Rankin and Welsh did for Edinburgh.”  
The Times
 
“The best Scottish book since Trainspotting…full of wisdom, jokes, poetic language and mind-burning imagery.”  
The Scotsman
THE STORNOWAY WAY PREMIERING AT AN LANNTAIR, STORNOWAY, ISLE OF LEWIS
FRI 30 & SAT 31 AUG
Times/Performances: 8pm
Admission: £12/£11 Members and Concessions/ £10 Under 25s
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE
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CALL: 01851 708 480
BOTH SHOWS SOLD OUT

THE STORNOWAY WAY TOURING SCOTLAND IN OCTOBER 2019
DATE
TOWN
VENUE
TICKETS
Thursday October 3
Musselburgh
The Brunton Theatre
This show BSL Interpreted
Box Office 0131 665 2240
​Tickets Online
Friday October 4
Kirkaldy
The Adam Smith Theatre
Box Office 01592 583302
​Tickets Online
Saturday October 5
Giffnock
Eastwood Park Theatre
This show BSL Interpreted
Box Office 0141 577 4956
​Tickets Online
Thursday October 10
Glasgow
Cottiers
Box Office 07967113342
​Tickets Online
Email
Friday October 11
Edinburgh 
Edinburgh Capital Theatres 
​The Studio Potterrow

SOLD OUT

Saturday October 12
Edinburgh
​Edinburgh Capital Theatres 
​The Studio Potterrow
Matinee now added 2.30pm

Evening Show now
SOLD OUT
Box Office 0131 529 6000
​Tickets Online
Monday October 14
Livingston
Howden Park Centre
Box Office 01506 340700
​Tickets Online
Tuesday October 15
Greenock
The Beacon Arts Centre
Box Office 01475 723723
Tickets Online
Wednesday October 16
Peebles
Eastgate Theatre
Box Office 01721 725777
​Tickets Online
Thursday October 17
Stirling
The Macrobert Centre
Box Office 01786  466666
​Tickets Online
Friday October 18
Birnam
Birnam Arts
Box Office 01350 727674
​Tickets Online
Saturday October 19
Portgordon
Portgordon Village Hall
Box Office
01542 835334 / 07850 459861

​Taylor Pharmacy, 1 High Street, Buckie
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Tickets Online
Monday October 21
Gairloch
Gairloch Community Hall
Box Office 07514 057721
​​Tickets Online
Wednesday October 23
Sleat,Isle of Skye
SEALL at Sabhal Mor Ostaig
Box Office 01471 844207
​Tickets Online
Thursday October 24
Inverness
Date on Hold
Box Office
​Tickets Online
Friday October 25
​Saturday October 26
Inverness
Eden Court Theatre
Box Office 01463 234234
​Tickets Online
Tuesday October 29
Latheron
Latheron Village Hall
Box Office 01955 641434
​Tickets Online
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Email
Wednesday October 30
Reay
Reay Village Hall
Box Office
​Tickets Online
​Email

The Company

Artistic Director:  Matthew Zajac  
Producer: Donna Macrae 
© Copyright Dogstar Theatre.

​Dogstar Theatre Company is a registered Scottish Charity
​Charity No: SC032678

Dogstar is a member of the Federation of Scottish Theatre &
​The Independent Theatre Council

Mailing Address

c/o Donna Macrae
​Firefly Productions
Aros, Upper Knockbain Road
Dingwall, IV15 9NR

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Board and Associates

Board Members
Stephanie Smart, Nick Fearne, Brian Spence,
Calum Duncan, Andrew Bruce, Leonie Gibbs


Associate Artists
Annie Grace, Jonny Hardie, Alyth McCormack,
Bruce MacGregor, Gavin Marwick, Douglas Russell

Thank You to our funders and supporters
Creative Scotland
Highland Council
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
The Hugh Fraser Foundation
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