Beacon Arts Centre Announce June-October 2016 Season

Greenock's Beacon Arts Centre has announced its theatre programme for June - October 2016 season. For more information and booking check out their website.

BEACON YOUNG COMPANY

Hector Moray

By Andy McGregor

Tue 28 June | 7:30pm | £7 / £5 | Suitable for 13+

It's 2021 and Hector Moray is a below average teenager with a well below average name. His life is as normal as normal can be until the return of a 'No' vote in a second referendum sends Scotland, and Hector, into an adventure like no other. He finds himself at the centre of a deadly plot to overthrow the government and it's all due to him fancying a girl purely on the basis that she has a worse name than him (Sylvia, since you're asking).

A rambunctious, knockabout of a play filled with intrigue, excitement and sandwiches.

Originally created as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Exchange 2016 Festival.

KAI FISCHER IN ASSOCIATION WITH

NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND

Last Dream (On Earth)

Wed 20 July | 7:30pm | £12 / £10 | Suitable for 12+

A traveller stands on a beach in Morocco with a group of friends. Tonight, they are getting ready for a journey to change their lives. Decades earlier, a young man is getting strapped into a tiny sphere, ready for his mission: to become the first human in outer space.

Experienced on headphones, this award-winning production creates a world of immersive sounds and stories, interweaving a driving live music score with accounts of those who risk their lives for a distant dream.

Glasgow Girls

Supported by Citizens Theatre and Richard Jordan Productions

Fri 29 July 7:30pm | Sat 30 July 2:30 & 7:30pm | £10

Suitable for 12+

The sold-out show of 2012 comes to the Beacon for an Edinburgh Fringe preview.

Cora Bissett and David Greig's life-affirming, song-filled Scottish drama, based on the true story of seven feisty teenagers, whose lives change forever when their school friend and her asylum-seeking family are forcibly taken from their home to be deported. The young women are galvanised to take a stand and fight for the life of their friend, her family and, ultimately, for the rights of all children of asylum-seekers in Scotland. They take on the government and succeed where others have failed, capturing the imagination of the media and inspiring a whole community to unite behind its residents.

NO NONSENSE PRODUCTIONS

Para Handy - The Wireless Show

By Neil Munro

Adapted by Gordon Neish

Sun 7 August | 1pm | £19.95

No Nonsense Productions (It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace) presents Para Handy; The Wireless Show. Join the Master Mariner, Dougie the Mate, MacPhail the Engineer and Sunny Jim along with a host of other characters for six classic tales from Neil Munro. Performed as a 1950s radio broadcast against the stunning backdrop of the Clyde in the Beacon Bistro this production features live sound effects and period music.

Price includes afternoon tea at 1pm and performance begins at 2:30pm.

I KNOW A GUY PRODUCTIONS

Dirty Water

Fri 2 September | 7:30pm | £12 / £10 | Suitable for 16+

Set in the housing schemes of Glasgow, Dirty Water follows a misfit team of male cleaners.

The merry band of lads are led by Jock, who is trying to come to terms with becoming a father for the first time, Ladies Man Boab, Crawford the functioning alky and man of wisdom and Brian, the private school boy and struggling actor. When mounting complaints lead to their jobs hanging in the balance, mopping floors starts to look a little harder than they first thought.

A story about friendship and the jobs we hate to do.

THISTLE THEATRE COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THISTLE THEATRE ACADEMY

Peter Pan

Fri 9 & Sat 10 September | 7:30pm

£18 / £14 child. Family tickets available

The classic British tale is brought to the stage in a musical extravaganza guaranteed to entertain and delight children and adults of all ages. Following the much loved story from J.M Barrie, the audience join Peter, Wendy, Michael and John as they embark upon an adventure, flying to Neverland where they encounter the Lost Boys, crocodiles, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook. Staged by the Company that brought you Blood Brothers, The Diary of Anne Frank and Oliver Twist, this musical adaptation will enthral from start to finish.

FIRE EXIT / DAVID LEDDY

The Course of True Love

By David Leddy

Tue 20 September | 7:30pm | £10 / £8

An everyday tale of caution, courage and Cleo Laine.

Following sell-out success at Glasgow's legendary A Play, A Pie and A Pint, comes this playful and heart-warming new production from a multi-award winning 'Star Scottish playwright' (Metro).

Celia and Oliver are in the world's most expensive hotel, drunk on the world's most expensive champagne. They have thirty minutes to make up their minds about a risky political proposal that could tear their lives apart. Will they find the courage to reveal their true feelings and speak truth to power?

SLEEPING WARRIOR THEATRE COMPANY AND MACROBERT ARTS CENTRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH SHOWROOM PRESENT

The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Lucas Petit

By Andy McGregor

Fri 23 September | 7:30pm | £10 / £8

A fast and furious new comedy with music from the team behind Love 2.0.

There's only one remarkable thing about Lucas Petit, and that is how unremarkable he is.

But, one day, a chance encounter with a tramp that may or not be God throws his whole world into disarray, as he is cast head-first into the murky world of organised crime and disorganised religion...

RAPTURE THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MACROBERT ARTS CENTRE

Democracy

by Michael Frayn (Noises Off)

Tue 4 October | 7:30pm | £12 / £10

Star casting to be announced!

West Germany, 1969. Charismatic Willy Brandt has been elected Chancellor. When Brandt 'dares more democracy', his own party conspires, plots and tries to destroy him.

As his enemies tighten the noose around his neck, Brandt believes the only man he can truly trust is Gunter Guillaume, his devoted personal assistant. But in the world of political intrigue, espionage and betrayal, is anyone to be trusted?

Shakespearean in scale but with all the twists and spins of modern politics, Democracy combines the fascination of a John Le Carre thriller (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Night Manager) with the dynamism of The West Wing and House of Cards.

TERRA INCOGNITA SUPPORTED BY MACROBERT ARTS CENTRE.

Invisible Army

Thu 27 October | 7pm | £10 / £8 | Suitable for 12+

Three years ago Robbie McGuire started becoming invisible.

It's not a big problem. It doesn't affect his daily life. Mrs Gillespie still gives him detention and Sarah Hargreaves still threatens to smash his face in. But people bump into him a lot in the street. Nobody ever really looks at him - they always look to the side or slightly behind. And this morning, the longer he looked in the mirror, the less he could see of himself.

Created as a documentation of the experiences and imaginations of a group of young carers, Invisible Army follows Robbie through a very weird day.

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