The Barony Players

Community theatre in Bo'ness

Woman Walking by Sylvia Dow

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By Sylvia Dow

Directed by Becky Hope-Palmer

19th October 2023, 7:30pm at The Barony Theatre

I know you’re there. You’ve been there all this time. Watching.

Woman Walking by acclaimed Scottish playwright, Sylvia Dow, is inspired by the life of Nan Shepherd, and her love of the Cairngorms and the connection she had with the mountains.

Woman Walking is a beautifully poignant play imagining several interactions over a period of time between Cath, a modern woman carrying the guilt and trauma over the death of her mother, and Nan, long since deceased and brought back by Cath to help her find resolution through her dialogue with Nan and through the Cairngorms themselves in all their rough beauty, light and weather. Sylvia Dow’s play has both humour and pathos and brings themes of grief, resolution and the healing power of nature.

The Creative Team:

Becky Hope-PalmerDirector
Philip PinskySound Design
Karen TennentSet/Costume Design
Laura HawkinsLighting Design
Fletcher Mathers (Nan Shepherd)
Pauline Lockhart (Cath)		Cast

“you captured Nan’s character and voice superbly, and the whole play made me yearn for getting out on the hills again!”
audience member – performed reading, Perth Theatre 2022
“As a piece of stage poetry it has some exquisitely memorable and lyrical moments”
The Scotsman on STUFF (2018)

Recommended age: 12+

Running Time: 70 minutes (no interval)

Tickets at £14 Full Price and £12 Concessions

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Sylvian Productions is a creative collaboration between Sylvia Dow and Muriel Romanes.

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This production is supported by Creative Scotland

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell

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1st – 6th May 2023

“Tell me it’s not true. Say it’s just a story…”

This is the non-musical play version of the hugely successful musical. It tells of twin brothers and what happens when their mother decides to have one of them adopted. Their contrasting upbringings and the hands fate deals them creates a fast-moving, perceptive and ultimately tragic story.

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Audience Reviews

“Amazing show – congratulations to all”

“Absolutely outstanding! We can’t wait until the next production and have bought a family membership . Well done to all involved”  

“Loved it tonight. Well done cast and crew. The production was perfect. You know the audience is captured when you hear the laughter and tears. The accents too. Transported us to Liverpool”  

“Superbly done as always. The setting was fantastic as usual – you have great designer(s) and crafts people. The acting was brilliant – great casting! Well done to all!”  

“An amazing performance. It fact it was so good I told my husband and sons to book tickets for themselves tonight!”  

Cast List

Directed by Tom Keeble

Narrator / Milkman / DoctorSteve Corrall
Mrs JohnstonLauren Scott
Mrs LyonsJane Thomson
Mickey JohnstonJamie Wright
Edward LyonsKeith Hewitt
LindaHelen Whyte
PolicemanAndrew Mackie
Johnston KidsSteph Ferguson, Liny Mullin, Ellie Currie

Production Team

DirectorTom KeebleBox Office ManagerMichelle Rolfe-Lowe
Assistant Director/Stage ManagerJennifer AdamsonLighting/SoundDuncan Waterston, Richard Ferguson, Martha Rowe, Carter Ferguson
PromptWendy TurnerCostumeBarony Players & Lorna Wallace
Set Design & BuildSandy Queenan, Richard Ferguson, Sara-Lou JohnsonPoster DesignHarry Knox
Front of House ManagerSheena KeebleProgramme DesignBarony Players

Stuff by Sylvia Dow

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We are honoured and delighted to be chosen as a venue on the professional touring production of local Bo’ness playwright Sylvia Dow. This world premiere follows on from the success of the collaboration on Threads (2015), between award-winning director Muriel Romanes (The List, The Carousel, The Deliverance – Stellar Quines) and acclaimed writer Sylvia Dow (Thrawn Craws, Village Pub Theatre).

Please come and join us for what is sure to be a fine piece of home-grown Scottish theatre.

We are what we build around us

STUFF is about the hoarding of memories, emotions and things. Today the Council is coming to clear Magda’s house. She must find a way to deal with the constant shifting of stuff in her house and her head, as she revisits the past and struggles with the present to find a way to face the future. Told with humour and tenderness this will resonate in its view of our attachment to things, and our need for attachment to each other.

“Dow’s construction evokes the power behind a shared history as the ties that bind are stronger still.” The Herald on Threads, FOUR stars

CAST: Carol Ann Crawford, Romana Abercromby, Pauline Lockhart, Rosemary Nairne

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