Dogstar Theatre Company
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The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil
A musical tragicomedy with
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 |
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.
"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 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.
"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 CALL: 01851 708 480 |
THE STORNOWAY WAY TOURING SCOTLAND IN OCTOBER 2019
DATE |
TOWN |
VENUE |
TICKETS |
Thursday October 3 |
Musselburgh |
The Brunton Theatre |
Box Office 0131 665 2240 Tickets Online |
Friday October 4 |
Kirkaldy |
The Adam Smith Theatre |
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Saturday October 5 |
Giffnock |
Eastwood Park Theatre |
Thursday October 10 |
Glasgow |
Cottiers |
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Friday October 11 |
Edinburgh |
Edinburgh Capital Theatres The Studio Potterrow |
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Saturday October 12 |
Edinburgh |
Edinburgh Capital Theatres The Studio Potterrow |
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Monday October 14 |
Livingston |
Howden Park Centre |
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Tuesday October 15 |
Greenock |
The Beacon Arts Centre |
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Wednesday October 16 |
Peebles |
Eastgate Theatre |
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Thursday October 17 |
Stirling |
The Macrobert Centre |
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Friday October 18 |
Birnam |
Birnam Arts |
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Saturday October 19 |
Portgordon |
Portgordon Village Hall |
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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 |
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Thursday October 24 |
Inverness |
Date on Hold |
Box Office Tickets Online |
Friday October 25 Saturday October 26 |
Inverness |
Eden Court Theatre |
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Tuesday October 29 |
Latheron |
Latheron Village Hall |
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Wednesday October 30 |
Reay |
Reay Village Hall |
