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What's On October - December 2019
Christine Bovill brings her new show 'Tonight you belong to me' to the Beacon on Friday 18th of October.
Image credit: Kris Kesiak
What's on this Autumn/Winter Season
We’re proud to host a UK exclusive - a very special wee blether with legendary Scottish actor Gregor Fisher, looking back on his life and celebrated career.
Other television stars known for making us laugh, who will soon be performing at the Beacon include Tommy Tiernan, Stuart Francis and Janey Godley, with her already sold-out Beyond The Fringe show.
This season’s music offering is particularly strong, and we’re delighted to welcome Scottish Opera for its second visit this year, with Opera Highlights. In addition, we have shows celebrating music legends The Beatles, Elvis, Led Zeppelin and Aretha Franklin.
Our dance programme includes a very welcome return visit from Scottish Dance Theatre with double-bill The Circle and Process Day, and Julia James-Griffiths’ The Box. Strictly Come Dancing star, Danny John-Jules, will take us on a journey through Sammy Davis Jnr’s life in I’ve Gotta Be Me.
We’re thrilled to be a part of the fifth annual Galoshans Festival, with a return of No Nonsense Productions’ Frankenstein, Felix O’Brien’s The Gathering and Shoogalie Road Productions’ The Darker Side of the Musicals.
Following the great success of A Play, A Pie and A Pint in April this year, we’re looking forward to its return in November with Good With People. Other theatre productions to look out for include Black Men Walking and Fibres, a Stellar Quines and Citizens Theatre co-production.
Of course, local companies play a vital role at the Beacon and we look forward to SongWriters Uncovered, Thistle Theatre’s production of Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits, Greenock Light Opera Club’s Nativity! The Musical and Greenock Players’ pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Don’t miss our other festive highlights Christmas By Candlelight and No Nonsense Productions’ A Christmas Carol – A Radio Play on Stage.
We’ll round off 2019 with our pantomime, which promises to be our biggest and best ever with the giant story of Jack & the Beanstalk with Still Game stars Jane McCarry and Mark Cox returning alongside fellow Beacon panto favourites Jimmy Chisholm and Lee Samuel.
Our Creative Learning programme continues with Beacon Youth Theatre and our range of dance classes, as well as lots of other opportunities to take part. In addition to attending performances and taking part in classes, there are many other ways in which you can support our work – look out for details in the following pages and on our website.
As always, we thank you for your continued support of the Beacon and look forward to welcoming you throughout this Autumn and Winter season.
Pauline Kane, Theatre Director
To Book
Visit our website, www.beaconartscentre.co.uk
Or call our Box Office on 01475 723723
