The Barony Players

Community theatre in Bo'ness

Hippfest Silent Film Festival 2018 – Community Screening @ The Barony

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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 

 

Tesco Bags for Help supporting the Barony Theatre

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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

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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

 

 

Christmas at the Barony Theatre – 2nd December 2pm & 7:30pm

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The Barony Players’ upcoming Christmas experience will take you back into a Dickens’ era magical Christmas with an extravaganza of popular songs and readings from some classic musicals as well as Christmas carols. 

With only 2 performances – a matinee and evening – tickets are already selling very fast, so be sure to book your tickets through our Box Office for an afternoon and evening that will definitely get you in the mood for Christmas.


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