Scratch Night

Join us for an evening of new performance and work-in-progress theatre from local artists. This Scratch Night brings together an evening of diverse performances, with the chance to discover new voices and see what is being developed by theatre-makers in the Highlands.

The evening will showcase work that explores 

• the injustice faced by Greenlandic mothers through an intimate interrogation of state control, cultural erasure and the conflict between maternal identity and bureaucratic powers

• the impact of the Klondykers on Ullapool in the 1980s

• the Selkie as facilitator between the two worlds of land and sea

• family drama exploring grief, fractured sibling relationships and buried secrets in the aftermath of their mother’s sudden death.

• the work created by our two Roots Collectives in Ullapool and Inverness.

More details about each performances can be found on our website.

Tickets are pay-what-you-can from £5.

Stephanie Riffort

Stephanie is an Inverness-based performer and emerging playwright specialising in community-driven storytelling. Drawing on extensive international community and educational theatre experience, her current practice balances acting with script development. She recently co-founded with a friend, Second Act, a new theatre company hoping to debute at the Inverness Fringe, focused on exploring the complex lived realities of women.

Catherine

As someone who has worked in a variety of roles in arts development and management Catherine’s knowledge and contacts are impressive. She has only recently begun to redevelop her personal creative practice but is currently focused on creating socially engaged work with a physical performance focus.

Angela Stone

Angela Stone is a freelance Director/Producer. After 20 years in arts management and cultural leadership in Yorkshire, she has relocated to the Scottish Highlands and wishes to connect with like-minded creatives to devise and deliver site specific, immersive experiences for our local communities.

Maggie Barker

Maggie’s practice addresses sense of place in modern Scottish communities by exploring tradition, culture and relationship with the other-than-human environment. She explores these themes through writing and performance art, sound based installation and traditional folklore and song. Her current performance work uses Selkie tales to interrogate modern perspectives on ecological collaboration with the marine.

Alice Allan

Alice is a trained performer, with an HND in Musical Theatre. She previously performed with Lossie EA, The MODS, and The Imaginarium, she is currently devising a play about witch trials. She wants to work on projects that engage people with their history, social issues, and empowerment from creative arts.

Cathy Jackson

Cathy worked as an English teacher for 25 years and is now a practicing artist in the NW Highlands. She is interested in using experiences in the landscape to stimulate intellectual and creative responses to literary texts through theatrical and artistic practice.

Grant McIver

more info soon