Comments (0) We have been nominated for an award by www.forargyll.com. See the page on our main contents list. Most exciting is the nomination for our Heritage Lottery Funded Project ‘Living History & beyond’ The lismore part of the project ‘Comming Home Again’ is nominated as Best Community Event….a fantastic acheivment.
We are delighted to announce a new interactive ‘murder play’ to be launched at the luxurious Loch Fyne Spa Hotel in Inveraray. To celebrate Burns night 2009 in the Year of The Homecoming, The Walking Theatre Company will host a Burns Supper with a twist. A hosted interactive murder mystery event inspired by the life and times of our most celebrated Baird!
Join the action as a guest at the wedding feast of Robert Burns’ eldest daughter Elizabeth, to a well known local playboy young Jamie Lamont, ward of the Clan Chief Sir Colin. Get to know ‘Sir’ Rabbies tricky family including your hostess for the evening, his lovely flighty new wife Lady Isabel. Experience your hosts ‘Address To The Haggis’ performed in his own inimitable style and be prepared to enter into the spirit of the evening and enjoy the nights frolics as the feast commences.
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The first Leg of the Lismore Youth Project is completed. The Play ‘Coming Home Again’ was an unqualified success with many of audience being moved to tears as the Youthful Company, supported by The Walking Theatre Company, led them on a journey through the First World War. The play is dedicated as a tribute to the men and women of Lismore who gave their lives.
Postie brings news
Captain Livingston welcomes new recruits
troops wave goodbye
As part of ‘Living History and Beyond’ our project in Neilston that is suported by The Heritage Lottery Fund, TWTC is recording images that have been supplied to us by The Neilston Development Trust. These imgages fire the imagination for the development of the village plays.
Tickets for the HIDDEN JEWEL go for sale online!
The Year of Homecoming 2009 will be on us in just a few weeks, and you can now book your tickets for The Hidden Jewel theatre event at Dunollie.
Buy your tickets by going to our website at www.dunollie.org or pasting the following link into your browser: http://www.dunollie.org/homecoming.html. If you run a website, please add this link to it.
In a few days time you will be able to book your place at the formal dinner, and we will also ask you to tell us what other events you might like to attend during the Homecoming week at Dunollie. If there is sufficient interest we will lay on guided bus tours, walking tours to Gylen and so on.
You will also shortly be able to find and book accomodation via our website, and it will be the best place for information to plan your own Clan MacDougall itinerary for the week with information on castles, history and suggested outings.
I am delighted to say that despite the financial crisis we are getting a good number of enquiries for the Dunollie events from the US and Canada, and several people are planning to spend a full week here . We will reward your fortutide by making sure it is all fun! We are certainly getting excited at this end already.
And by the way - thankyou to those who emailed positive feedback about our new and ever expanding website. In case you are wondering, the kilt in the website header is none other than the esteemed husband of our Chief, Richard Morley, photographed at the splendid event to reopen Gylen Castle after its consolidation project. He wears it well!
Catherine Gillies
Project Officer
Dunollie House
Oban
Argyll PA34 5TT
Tel: 01631 570550
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