BYT are delighted that the successful Youth Summer Drama School is returning this year at teh Barony Theatre. Running from 2nd – 5th July, it promises to be and action-packed and fun-filled experience.
Booking essential.
Hippfest Silent Film Festival 2018 – Community Screening @ The Barony
We are delighted that the Barony Theatre is hosting a community screening again this year as part of the Hippfest silent movie festival this year. This was a fantastic and memorable event last year – book your tickets in advance as it’s sure to be a popular evening.
HippFest Community Screening
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
Saturday 17 March 2018 | 19:30 | £9.75 | £7.75 conc
VENUE: Barony Theatre, Borrowstoun Road, Bo’ness EH51 9RS
First feature by the dynamic directing duo behind King Kong. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack tell the jaw-dropping story of a tribe of nomads in Iran known as the Bakhtiari and their epic trek with half-a-million animals across impossible terrain to reach summer pasture. A spectacular ethnographic record, this film was intended for the lecture circuit but was snapped up by Paramount for theatrical distribution on the strength of its powerful dramatic punch. It’s easy to see how the character of Denham in King Kong was modelled after the adventurer Cooper, whose daredevil real-life exploits were the stuff of Hollywood adventure films.
Dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | US | 1925 | U | 1h 10m + short
Performing live: Mike Nolan | Screening material courtesy of Milestone Films
HippFest is organised by Falkirk Community Trust with key funding from Falkirk Council, and support from the BFI Audience Fund Creative Scotland’s Open Project Fund and VisitFalkirk.
More HippFest silent screenings and events are taking place at the Hippodrome and various venues in Bo’ness from Wed 21 to Sun 25 March 2018. www.hippfest.co.uk
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Hippodrome Cinema, Bo’ness: Silent Cinema Festival
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Tesco Bags for Help supporting the Barony Theatre
We are delighted to have been chosen for Tesco’s Bags of Help!
If successful we will be able to improve our spaces for all by installing black curtains around the stage which will make it more flexible for community use. We will also help create level access into the building with a new portable wheelchair ramp.
We would be so grateful if anyone shopping at Tesco in Bo’ness in the coming weeks would vote for our great cause – we would love to be able to make the improvements to the theatre so that more local people can come and enjoy this wonderful community asset.
Always forgetting your bags? Great! Just remember to ask for a token at the checkout.
Spring Production May 2018 – The Ladykillers
The Barony Players are delighted to announce our Spring 2018 production as Graham Linehan’s stage adaption of the Ealing comedy classic, The Ladykillers. Rehearsals are well underway as is a traditional “Barony set build”. Tickets are now on sale via our online Box Office or by calling 07541 346639 and are already selling fast.
The Ladykillers is a classic black comedy; a sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing. Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided house of sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. The villains plot to involve her, unwittingly, in Marcus’ brilliantly conceived heist job. The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, General Gordon, to help her, Mrs Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men. But who will be forced to face the music?
“This is no pale stage rip-off but a new-written piece of perfection.” – The Times
“A joy from start to finish.” – Daily Express
“The show works and, at its considerable best, works triumphantly.” – The Daily Telegraph
“An exuberantly inventive evening.” – The Guardian
CAST LIST
Directed by Sandy Queenan
| Constable Macdonald | Roddy Bain |
| Mrs Louisa Wilberforce | Eleanor Bain |
| Professor Marcus | Steve Corrall |
| Major Courtney | Ian Stewart |
| Harry Robinson | John Knox |
| One-Round | David Todd |
| Louis Harvey | Craig Lowe |
| Mrs Jane Tromleyton | Judy Barker |
| Mrs Wilberforce’s Guests | Sheena Keeble Jen O’Donnell Sue Spencer |
Barony Film Society 2017/2018 season latest films …
The Barony Film Society continues its 2017/2018 season with three more fantastic films.
February 9th – MY COUSIN RACHEL
UK, 2017, Cert 12A, 106mins
Directed by Roger MichellWith Rachel Weisz
A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin’s mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
February 23rd – THE OLIVE TREE
Spain, 2016, Cert 15, 100 mins
Directed by Icair Bollain
With – Anna Castillo
A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.
March 9th – THE LADYKILLERS
UK, 1955, Cert U, 91 mins
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
With – Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and Cecil Parker
Five diverse oddball criminal types planning bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.