BUCKET LIST, AS THE CROW FLIES, and More Part of Rural Touring this Spring

A new season of live performance including award-winning Edinburgh fringe successes, new musicals, home-grown talent, music and dance are touring village halls and community spaces across the UK this spring. Hosted by the touring schemes and member organisations of the National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF), the ongoing programme is focused on bringing exceptional performance to rural communities' nearest venues.

Here are a few highlights:

Theatre Ad Infinitum's Spirit of the Fringe Award-winning Bucket List tours to Cornwall with Carn to Cove as part of its UK tour, a large cast reaching small venues with this story about one Mexican woman's quest for justice.

Pentabus' new play with songs As the Crow Flies is based on a true story of a woman who struck up an unlikely friendship with a wounded crow. Featuring music by Dom Coyote (Songs For The End Of The World), the play tours widely across Worcestershire, Cheshire, Norfolk, Wiltshire, Devon and Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire.

November Club's Beyond the End of the Road, created in association with Highlights Rural Touring Scheme is a new musical drawn from stories and anecdote from seven villages and a cattle auction mart in Northumberland and will tour to each of them in June. With appearances from local talent, each performance will be slightly different, unique to that place, its people and its stories.

Apphia Campbell's extraordinary one-woman show inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Black is the Colour of My Voice, is touring Gloucestershire in February and March, hosted by Applause Rural Touring as part of Seabright Productions' tour.

Also touring from this Spring is Luke Wright's multi award winning What I Learned from Johnny Bevan and Lightning Under their Skirts, a play about the Sixties, dance and secrets written by Joy Winkler, an award-winning former Cheshire poet laureate - both of which reach venues in Cheshire in May.

Founded in 1997, the NRTF is a member-led organisation that works to deliver high quality art experiences that strengthen communities, providing the rural touring network with training, information and networking services as well as promoting better understanding of the rural touring network through research and advocacy.

www.ruraltouring.org

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