Wednesday 1 May
WEDNESDAY 1 MAY
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12-2pm Workshop: Andrew Deuchar
1pm Music: Berwickshire High School
2.30pm Plays: Berwickshire High School
4:30pm Readings: People and Places - Word Weavers
5.30pm Music: Scottish Blend
6pm Play: Babe Alien - Mon Espoir
7:00pm Music: Scottish Blend
7.30pm Play: The Monk of St Anthony - Duns Players
8.30pm Music: Kings Fall
9.00pm Poem: Moscow Station - Dougal Lee
12-3pm
Community Lunch
A Heart For Duns
FREE
Join us for lunch followed by some entertainment by
Berwickshire High School.
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LUNCH NOW FULL
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Come for 12.45pm and join us for our entertainment for as long as you like!
People and Places
Word Weavers
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Wednesday 1 May
4.30-5.30pm
Main Stage
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Duns based creative writing group, Word Weavers, is back with another eclectic mix of short poems, monologues, playlets, and stories. The group has performed their writing at every DunsPlayFest, and their themed collections try to include something for everyone. This year’s ‘People and Places’ is no exception with tales of adventures in exotic locations, poems and prose about local places and characters, and thought-provoking drama, written and performed to make you laugh, or feel sad, but most of all to make you aware of the diversity of human experience.
Contributors: Dorothy Dickinson, L S Gray, Denise McNulty, Carolyn Poulter, and Yvonne Skinner
5.30pm and 7pm
Cabaret Stage
Scottish Blend
FREE
Scottish Blend amalgamates the timbres of piano (Harris Playfair), saxophone (Sam Lord), and Indian harmonium (Heather Cattanach) to create an unusual sound palate for arrangements of jazz standards, as well as new compositions.
7.30pm Main Stage
The Monk of St Anthony
A Wilson's Tale
Adapted by Robert Sproul Cran
A riotous romp of mistaken identity and comeuppance, as a pub landlord in a borrowed habit is hounded through the streets of Edinburgh, both by Catholics kidnapping him for religious duties and a Protestant mob baying for his blood. How will he get back to the Ship Inn? And how will the real monk get home without any trousers?
8.30pm Cabaret Stage
Kings Fall
FREE
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Kings Fall are what happens when a songwriter sets out to study the pieces that inform his musical tastes and styles.
9pm Main Stage
Moscow Stations
Performed By Dougal Lee
MOSCOW STATIONS is a prose poem, written in Brezhnev-era USSR. It is, by turns, a memoir; a philosophical enquiry; an odyssey to an unremarkable Ithaca; a futile search for an unattainable Elysium; a satirical, elusive interrogation of the ways in which Russia has been failed by its leaders; and a dangerous recipe book of don’t-drink-this-at-home cocktails. It has been described as “the comic highwater mark of the Brezhnev era”. Unfortunately, it would seem its relevance has not diminished.
