THREADS

THREADS: A Stellar Quines production directed by Muriel Romanes with choreography by Sophie Stephenson.

A play about women, work, and knitting. Threads weaves the stories, historical, verbatim, and imagined into a multi-stranded piece of theatre using music, song and dance. From 19th Century millworkers to modern day knitting clubs, writer Sylvia Dow brings to life the history of knitting in the borders and the threads of life, fate and destiny which bind us all.

The play is the outcome of a longer project Knit Two Together, hosted at Heart of Hawick (2012) and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), in which Stellar Quines and Sylvia Dow engaged the local community and their stories in the development of the play.

Sylvia Dow’s first full length play A Beginning, a Middle, and an End toured Scotland and the North of England in 2012 and was initially presented during a Stellar Quines Rehearsal Room. Sylvia was one of the Traverse Fifty writers and has had work presented at the Traverse and Oran Mor.

Cast:  Annie Grace, Molly Innes, Pauline Knowles, Paksie Vernon and Joanna Tope
Writer: Sylvia Dow
Director: Muriel Romanes
Lighting Design: Jeanine Byrne
Musical Director: Robert Pettigrew
Choreography: Sophie Stephenson
Threads is part of Luminate:  Scotland’s Creative Ageing Festival and Borders Live Touring

Performances: 

Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
31 October at 7.30pm
£12 / £10 / £5 schoolchildren
01721 725777
www.eastgatearts.com

Barony Theatre, Bo’ness
2 November at 7.30pm
£10 / £8 concession
07811 156234

Yarrow Village Hall
3 November at 7.30pm
£7 / £4 (U16)
07774 683064

MacArts, Galashiels
5 November at 7.30pm
£12/ £10 Concession
www.macarts.scot
01896 756852

Heart of Hawick
6 November at 7.30pm
£10
01450 360680
www.heartofhawick.co.uk

Smailholm Village Hall
7 November at 7.30pm
£7/ £4 U16 – teas, coffees and home made biscuits available after show
Tickets: Kinsman-Blake Gallery
01573 460666

Stellar Quines is a Registered Company No. 157796. Registered Charity No. SC023628. 30b Grindlay St, Edinburgh

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I've been working with director Muriel Romanes and the Stellar Quines Theatre Company as choreographer on THREADS, a new play about knitting and mills in the Borders. It's been great fun working with the cast, teaching them steps and coming up with foot rhythms to recreate the sounds and mechanical rhythms of the mill. It has been production week this week and the company will be going on tour around the Borders after the opening night tomorrow in Peebles. For more info on venues and details about tickets visit www.sophabulous.co.uk/threads Here is a clip from rehearsals today to give you a taster of what to expect! #Threads #Scotland #Borders #StepDance

Posted by Sophabulous Steps on Friday, 30 October 2015

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"Rhythms of the mills explode into life" (Herald Scotland)

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