Showcase Day at The Gathering is a rare opportunity for promoters from across the Highlands & Islands and other rural areas around Scotland, to see excerpts of professional performances that are tour-ready and a variety of artforms, in a rural setting. We’re delighted to be welcoming some incredible performers this year, including these theatre shows! Click through to read more.
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Spike
Starcatchers

Mary Anne lives in an ordinary little town
with an extraordinary museum
Of everything there ever was!
There’s
rockets and planes
boats and trains
tigers and Sloths
butterflies and moths
but Mary-Ann’s favourite… is Spike
a wee dinosaur in a big world…
This is the wonderful story of a little girl, her grandmother and a Stegosaurus – powerfully told through theatrical storytelling and dance.
With a truly intergenerational cast, this is a show about the passing of time and stories passed that will bring families together.
Andy Cannon – Creator
The Grandmothers Grimm
Some Kind of Theatre

Though This Be Madness
Skye Loneragan

I don’t have timeHow can we nurture our collective sanity? Bouncing on a pilates ball in the Land of Lounge Room, a recovering mum is desperate to soothe her baby.
Unable to reach her sister, who wrestles sometimes with a cataract on what Shakespeare calls the mind’s eye, (a debilitating psychosis), she stitches together a quirky, playful pillow-book of tales told through poetry and performance.
The adult content from Though This Be Madness will also be shared in a daytime performance, specifically for parents with babes in arms.
With original music by Mairi Campbell & Dave Gray, lyrics by Skye Loneragan
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About Showcase Day
Showcase Day is a rare opportunity for promoters from across the Highlands & Islands and other rural areas around Scotland, to see excerpts of professional performances that are tour-ready and a variety of artforms, in a rural setting.
*Most of the showcase performances presented at The Gathering are eligible for a Supported Programme bursary.
83% of the performers who showcased at the 2018 Gathering have since toured the region, and received guaranteed fees for those dates booked by Touring Network promoters.
About Supported Programme
Supported Programme is a bursary scheme for promoters on our Cairn membership package, providing them with financial assistance to programme excellent and experimental new work in venues across the Highlands & Islands. To find out more about The Touring Network, Supported Programme and the application process head here.
*The Touring Fund
Alongside those eligible for Supported Programme bursaries, we’re also presenting 2 showcase performers who are recipients of the Creative Scotland Touring Fund: Spike/Starcatchers and Though This Be Madness/Skye Loneragan.