definition

Com´mon`ty

n.

1.

(Scots Law) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.



Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Baroness - touring the country next month

 Dogstar Theatre company are arriving in D&G in September as part of their month long tour of latest production, The Baroness. Karen Blixen's Final Affair by Thor Bjorn Krebs, translated by Kim Dambaek is our first production of a play from Scandinavia. With the amazing classical and TV actress and writer Roberta Taylor in the role of Karen Blixen, it's a brilliantly written play about an extraordinary friendship between the ageing writer of Out of Africa, (Karen Blixen's pen-name was Isak Dinesen) and a young poet, Thorkild Bjornvig.


The play charts the course of this relationship and also the relationship of a third character, Benedicte Jensen, to Bjornvig and Blixen.  Benedicte was the wife of Bjornvig’s patron and publisher. 

The Baroness premiered to rave reviews at the Folketeatret in Copenhagen in 2011 and was nominated as play of the year in the 2012 Danish Theatre Awards. Full of tension and poetry, with three tremendous acting roles, the play is inspired by anecdotes, letters and books by and about both Blixen and Bjørnvig.

To catch them locally, they are performing at the Catstrand on the 11th of September, or the Buccleuch Centre in Langholm on the 12th. For ticketing details please contact the venues direct.

Dogstar is now established as one of Scotland's leading touring theatre companies.  We are based in the Scottish Highlands in Inverness, one of Europe’s fastest growing small cities.  Our productions tour throughout Scotland and internationally.   Much of our work springs directly from the Highlands’ defining characteristics: a stunningly beautiful and harsh natural landscape; a tumultuous and marginalised history; a shifting and changing population; a vibrant oral and musical tradition.  Our productions endeavour to speak to our audiences in the Highlands and beyond using some of Scotland’s best actors, musicians, writers, directors and designers and collaborating with international artists and partners.  

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