Serious Play Theatre Presents Mairi Campbell's PULSE

Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00 pm
Mairi Campbell joins us all the way from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Not to be missed!

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Mairi is a viola player, singer and songwriter whose music has a rooted and powerful quality. She is also a mum, wife and sister, who enjoys Scottish dancing, cooking, meditating, drawing, and more. For her theatre show Mairi Campbell: Pulse, Mairi put pen to paper to create the dot drawings that are beamed on stage throughout the piece.

Mairi is also incredibly grateful for any donations. Your financial support helps her continue to make her music and bring art to communities in Scotland and further afield.

Biography

Mairi Campbell is an influential and pioneering figure in Scottish music. Her music has a rooted and powerful quality and her musical interests are wide ranging: from playing Scottish dance music to pushing the boundaries of the traditional music scene with her soundings and improvisations.

Mairi won Instrumentalist of the Year 2016 at the Scots Trad Music Awards. She has previously won Scots Singer of The Year and Tutor of The Year. She has also received the Live Ireland Music Award for Best Female Musician of the Year and for Best Composition of the Year.

Mairi’s voice was heard worldwide when her version of Auld Lang Syne (with David Francis as The Cast) was used in a pivotal scene in the film Sex and The City. She also runs music retreats on the isle of Lismore.

“her voice can stop the clock” – The Scotsman

Mairi Campbell: Pulse

Mairi Campbell presents Pulse, her first one-woman theatre show – the story of her musical homecoming, journey of the heart and quest to find her pulse. Co-devised and directed by Kath Burlinson.

“consummate, visionary musicianship… a performer of vivid, distinctive virtuosity” – Mary Brennan, The Herald

“A consummate musician, Mairi Campbell in her one-woman show Pulse reveals her formidable acting and storytelling talents as she explores the very essence of what it is to be a musician in this thought-provoking and moving journey” – Susan Nickalls, music critic

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Exciting News for A Happening IV: Leviathan

Cloudgaze and Eggtooth Productions are thrilled to announce that we have received a generous grant from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice to support our 2024 Immersive Arts Festival, “A Happening IV: Leviathan.”

This festival will transform the Shea Theater into an exploration of theme, hosting installations, music, theatrical performances, and movement pieces, featuring the collective contributions of over 30 local artists. Audiences will experience otherworldly environments and narratives inspired by folklore, fairy tales, horror motifs, American literature, and the mythos of the Old Testament, all of which delve into the central question guiding the festival: "What does it mean to encounter something greater than yourself and to be consumed by it?" Through this theme, we explore how a community reemerges and imagines itself after destruction and transformation.

With the support of the Markham-Nathan Fund, we are excited to create an event that complicates perspectives and fosters meaningful dialogue. We are grateful for this partnership and for the work of the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice.

Thanks to the Mass Cultural Council for their vital support this year.We'd also like to thank the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts for their support in the form of a Flexible Funding grant. We couldn't do this work without you!