Futureproof brochure

28 Sep – 28 Oct 2018

10 DARING INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES 0 DARING INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES 10 LOCATIONS ACROSS SCOTLAND 0 LOCATIONS ACROSS SCOTLAND 10 EXCITING PRODUCTIONS 0 EXCITING NEWNEW PRODUCTIONS CO-CREATED

BY SCOTLAND’S YOUNG PEOPLE O-CREATED

BY SCOTLAND’S YOUNG PEOPLE

THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND AIMS FIRST AND FOREMOST TO BE A THEATRE FOR EVERYONE. IN 2018 WE ARE BUILDING ON THIS ETHOS WITH A RENEWED FOCUS ON SCOTLAND’S FUTURE GENERATIONS. Futureproof is a nationwide, international festival of radical new work created with young people and for everyone, supported by Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018. It has been incredible to work with Lucy Gaizely from 21Common as co-curator, in partnership with EventScotland, to bring together the most exciting theatre makers from all over the world who will work side by side with Scottish artists and communities of young people.

Ten new productions from some of the biggest global names in theatremaking and a host of our best Scottish talent will take place in ten locations all across the country in September and October.

We have designed this project alongside our fabulous new Year of Young People Project Team who have spent the year with us, embedded at the heart of the company, helping shape this new era for the National Theatre of Scotland.

Wherever you are in Scotland, from Shetland to Edinburgh, from Moray to Paisley, I hope you enjoy the festival of groundbreaking performance happening on your doorstep this Autumn.

Jackie Wylie, Artistic Director & CEO

Rockvilla, Glasgow

OPENING EVENT 28 Sep - 5pm - 9pm (last admittance 8pm), Free*

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The National Theatre of Scotland is throwing open the doors of Rockvilla for a party like no other in celebration of the young people of Scotland.

Marking Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018 and kicking off the Futureproof festival, the event will feature a line-up of young performers specially curated by the Year of Young People Project Team, a group of 14-26 year olds recruited by National Theatre of Scotland to oversee and influence the festival. The Year of Young People Project Team invite you to step into the future for a night of diverse performances, creative challenges and a glimpse of what the festival will hold. You don’t have to be a young person to attend but if you are not aged between 14-26 you will have to bring a young person with you to gain entry. * Tickets by invitation only. If you are aged between 14-26 and would like to receive an invitation to this event, sign up to our Futureproof Passport.

See page 14 for details.

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Forres & Elgin

EMPATHY MUSEUM (UK)

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29 Sep - 1 Oct Forres & 3 - 7 Oct Elgin drop in 11am - 4pm, ÂŁ1 on the door

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AD Empathy Museum (UK) are bringing their international touring hit A Mile in My Shoes to Scotland. Located at sites in Forres and Elgin and housed in a giant shoebox, this exhibit holds a diverse collection of shoes and audio stories that explore our shared humanity. Visitors are invited to walk a mile in the shoes of a young local stranger whilst listening to their story. Each story lasts approx 10 mins. For full details of access please refer to page 12

Part of Findhorn Bay Festival

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

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CHRONICLES 6 & 7 Oct - 12pm, 2pm & 3.30pm, £5

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BSL AD Scottish dance collective Project X (UK) and Thulani Rachia (UK/South Africa) AD have worked with young people in Edinburgh to create a new piece of dance theatre performance. This alternative audio guide and immersive performance uses different dance styles, as the audience promenade through the Scottish Galleries of the National Museum of Scotland to uncover hidden and imagined histories. For full details of access please refer to page 12

Supported by National Museums Scotland

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HMP YOI Polmont

GLAS(S) PERFORMANCE (UK)

MOTION

9 & 10 Oct - 2pm, 11 Oct - 2pm & 7pm, ÂŁ1*

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Glas(s) Performance (UK) (producers of award-winning young people’s company Junction 25) have been working in residence in HMP YOI Polmont.

Performed by young men in custody, this original piece explores questions of identity and inheritance and what it means to be a young man in contemporary Scotland today. What is the impact of masculinity on us?

What impact can we have? What happens next? *Due to the nature of this venue the performances will be by invitation only.

For more information contact futureproof@nationaltheatrescotland.com Supported by the Scottish Prison Service

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Paisley (Meet in front of Paisley Town Hall)

RIMINI PROTOKOLL (GERMANY)

DO’S & DON’TS 12 - 14 & 16 - 21 Oct - 12.30pm & 5pm, £10/ £8/ £5 (Futureproof Passport)

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Documentary theatre specialists Rimini Protokoll (Germany) have adapted their acclaimed Cargo project for a very unusual tour around Paisley. You are taken on a journey in a remodelled truck, a mobile auditorium, looking out at the city through a large window. Next to the driver sits a child, who invites the audience to examine the city and the people in it: laws, rules, norms, rituals, explicit and implicit arrangements, visible and invisible codes – the do’s and don’ts. A soundscape created by a local choir supports and comments on the journey. For full details of access please refer to page 12 Funded by Renfrewshire Council, this is a Paisley 2021 Legacy co-production with National Theatre of Scotland for the Spree Festival 2018

Bonar Hall, Dundee

BACK TO BACK THEATRE (AUSTRALIA)

RADIAL

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17 Oct - 7pm, pay what you can on the door (ÂŁ1 minimum)

Back to Back Theatre (Australia) and young people of Dundee have playfully re-imagined video art, dance, music and fashion in RADIAL - a film and music video portrait of a community and landscape in motion. Exploring themes of diversity and opportunity, the young people worked closely with Scottish artist Robbie Synge and internationally renowned fashion designer and stylist Hayley Scanlan to create the final stunning piece. The evening’s entertainment will include a Q&A with the company, a short live performance, the screening of RADIAL and a party. After the opening, the RADIAL film will then tour to different locations and venues across Dundee.

For full details of access please refer to page 12 Supported by Festival of the Future, University of Dundee

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Rothes Halls, Glenrothes

GREG SINCLAIR (UK)

LOTS & NOT LOTS 19 Oct – 7.30pm & 20 Oct – 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £10/ £8/ £5 (Futureproof Passport)

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BSL Performance artist and composer Greg Sinclair (UK) has created a AD concert of voice and movement with twelve local teenagers. The twelve young AD performers act as a choral unit with occasional improvised vocal outbursts and flashes of absurdity that will dispel the illusion of perfection and give glimpses of the personalities within the ensemble. For full details of access please refer to page 12

Supported by OnFife

Eden Court, Inverness

TOURETTESHERO (UK)

HACKS FOR THE FUTURE 20 Oct - 1pm - 4pm, ÂŁ5.50 / ÂŁ3.50

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Jess Thom is a theatre-maker, comedian, disability rights activist and co-founder of Touretteshero (UK), who bring their project Hacks for the Future to the Highlands of Scotland. They will create a collaborative work, with a selected group of disabled young people from across Scotland, resulting in an inclusive extravaganza of installations, performances, discussions and workshops looking at how we can creatively shape the future.

Audience members are welcome to drop in and out of the space over the duration of the event. For full details of access please refer to page 13 Supported by Eden Court

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Aberdeen Beach (Meet at Transition Extreme)

AKHE (RUSSIA)

REWIND PERSPECTIVE

20 & 21 Oct - 7pm, £10/ £8/ £5 (Futureproof Passport)

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AKHE (Russia) and young people in Aberdeen have created a new piece of exciting, abstract, site-specific physical theatre inspired by the unknown inventions and life of Alexander Bell. Set on Aberdeen beach, expect to see pyramidal kites flying over the city, illusions made with light, sound and speed as well as an opportunity for you to ‘rewind perspective’. All audience members please meet at Transition Extreme, Links Road, Aberdeen from 6.30pm. For full details of access please refer to page 13

Mareel, Lerwick & Haroldswick Hall, Unst

MAMMALIAN DIVING REFLEX (CANADA)

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Lerwick 25 & 26 Oct - 7.30pm & Unst 28 Oct - 7.30pm, £10/ £8/ £5 (Futureproof Passport)

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Mammalian Diving Reflex (Canada) and the young people of Shetland have been studying Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman who came to Unst in 1948 and said he was there to study the local economy but, instead, observed everyone there. Seventy years after his best-selling research, a cast of Shetland youth apply Goffman’s insights at Unstfest, the UK’s most northerly festival. The result - The World is a Wedding, The Presentation of Unst in Everyday Life - presents their findings, with a song or two.

For full details of access please refer to page 13 Supported by Shetland Arts

The Gaiety, Ayr

CAMPO (BELGIUM)

WILD LIFE FM 27 & 28 Oct - 7.30pm, £10/ £8/ £5 (Futureproof Passport)

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CAMPO (Belgium) and local young people from South Ayrshire have set up Wild Life FM: a staged live radio show on how to discover yourself through music, a raw exposition of what it’s like being young in Scotland today, and a chance for the voices of the young people of South Ayrshire to be heard.

The young people define landmark moments in their life through music.

Led by musician and composer Scott Twynholm, renowned director Pol Heyvaert, performance artist Kim Noble and co-curated by the young people themselves. For full details of access please refer to page 13 A Unicorn Theatre London / Norfolk & Norwich Festival co-production In association with The Gaiety & South Ayrshire Council

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ACCESS INFORMATION LAUNCH EVENT – GLASGOW

DOS & DON’TS – PAISLEY

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The truck has no wheelchair access, there are 6 steps up with no handrail please email for more information • Visual Guide available online

Audio Described BSL Interpreted Breakout space available Gender neutral toilets Visual Guide available online

A MILE IN MY SHOES – MORAY • • • •

All performances

Sunday 21 Oct | 12:30pm • BSL Interpreted

Selected stories BSL Interpreted Sunday 21 Oct | 5pm and captioned • Audio Described Visual Guide available online • Early Entrance and Touch Tour at Forres - breakout space available 4.30pm Elgin- breakout space available at public benches

RADIAL – DUNDEE

CHRONICLES – EDINBURGH All performances • •

Captions available on tablets (limited availability) Visual Guide available online

Sunday 7 Oct | 12pm • Early Entrance and Touch Tour at 1.30pm • Relaxed Performance Sunday 7 Oct | 2pm • Audio Described • Early Entrance 1.30pm

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BSL Interpreted Breakout space available Gender neutral toilets Visual Guide available online

LOTS & NOT LOTS – FIFE All performances • • • •

Breakout space available Changing Places toilet Gender neutral toilets Visual Guide available online

Friday 19 Oct | 7.30pm • Captioned • SubPacs available for D/deaf audience members (limited availability) book in advance

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Saturday 20 Oct | 2.30pm AD • Early Entrance & Touch Tour at 2pm • Relaxed performance Saturday 20 Oct | 7.30pm • Audio Described • Early Entrance & Touch Tour at 7pm

HACKS FOR THE FUTURE – INVERNESS • • • • • • • •

Accessible and gender neutral toilets Audio Described BSL Interpreted Chill out space Multi sensory Relaxed performance Social story and Visual Guide available online Touch Tours

REWIND PERSPECTIVE – ABERDEEN All performances • • •

Breakout space available Early Entrance & Introduction to the show at 6.30pm Visual Guide available online

Saturday 20 Oct | 7pm • Audio Described • BSL Interpreted • SubPacs available for D/deaf audience members (limited availability) book in advance

THE WORLD IS A WEDDING, THE PRESENTATION OF UNST IN EVERYDAY LIFE – SHETLAND

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Breakout space available (Mareel only) Visual Guide available online

Friday 26 Oct | 7.30pm • Early Entrance with show information & Touch Tour at 7pm

WILD LIFE FM – AYRSHIRE • • •

Breakout space available Gender neutral toilets Visual Guide available online

Saturday 27 Oct | 7.30pm • Audio Described • Early Entrance and Touch Tour at 7pm All events are wheelchair friendly except for Do’s & Don’ts in Paisley where an alternative experience will be offered.

For the latest access information & Visual Guides go to: nationaltheatrescotland.com/ futureproof For more information email access@nationaltheatrescotland. com

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PASSPORT The Futureproof Passport gives young people aged 14-26 access to £5 tickets to selected performances across National Theatre of Scotland’s 2018 season. Sign up for free online and receive a monthly e-newsletter with all the £5 ticket deals and invitations to our Futureproof Member’s event. nationaltheatrescotland/futureproof-passport

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BOOKING INFORMATION Tickets can be purchased at:

nationaltheatrescotland.com/futureproof As well as at performance venues:

CHRONICLES, EDINBURGH nationaltheatrescotland.com/futureproof

DO’S & DON’TS, PAISLEY 0300 300 1210 renfrewshireleisure.com

LOTS & NOT LOTS, GLENROTHES 01592 611101 onfife.com

HACKS FOR THE FUTURE, INVERNESS 01463 234234 eden-court.co.uk

REWIND PERSPECTIVE, ABERDEEN 01224 641122 aberdeenperformingarts.com

THE WORLD IS A WEDDING, THE PRESENTATION OF UNST IN EVERYDAY LIFE, SHETLAND 01595 745500 shetlandarts.org

WILD LIFE FM 01292 288235 thegaiety.co.uk The National Theatre of Scotland is a company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland (SC234270) and is a registered Scottish charity (SC033377).

Futureproof has been co-curated and creatively led by Lucy Gaizely of 21 Common and with support from Year of Young People 2018.

HEADLINE SUPPORTER

The Ettrick Charitable Trust

COMPANIES

GREG SINCLAIR

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

SUPPORTED BY

SPONSORS

The Margaret Murdoch Charitable Trust

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