NEWS: Little-performed Whisky Galore to be staged in Rutherglen

Windmill Productions are performing Whisky Galore – A Musical in Rutherglen City Corridor from Wednesday seventeenth Might – Saturday twentieth Might (with two reveals on Saturday).

A present which surprisingly may be very hardly ever carried out, however each time it’s, it earns rave critiques. It was first carried out professionally by Pitlochry Pageant Theatre in its 2009 summer time season and because of well-liked demand was repeated within the autumn of 2011 as a part of the Theatre’s sixtieth anniversary season.

The musical is predicated on Compton MacKenzie’s humorous, romantic and massively entertaining novel of the identical identify that was made right into a memorable movie in 1949. Each the movie and the novel are based mostly on the real-life 1941 shipwreck of the SS Politician close to the island of Eriskay, however within the movie the 2 islands have been merged into the one island of Todday and a few non secular points have been neglected.

Working from the unique novel, with permission from the Society of Authors who handle the copyright of Compton Mackenzie’s works, the adaptors, Shona and Ian, have introduced these two facets of the ebook again to life: the completely different religions, and the 2 Todday islands – the Catholic Little Todday and the Protestant Nice Todday. This facet supplies fascinating mild and shade to the machinations and manoeuvering that happen between the varied ‘warring factions’.

The musical has a rating that conjures up each the Forties and the unmistakable sounds of the Western Isles and ends with the poet Duncan Macroon and the Sergeant’s mom, Mrs Odd, toasting the gorgeous islands with uisge beathe, because the solar units. All is effectively in heaven and on earth and the viewers is left with the sensation that they could simply have caught a glimpse of the soul of the Outer Hebrides.

Windmill Productions are a efficiency group established by famend Glasgow based mostly producer, Alan Jones in 2014, and first carried out Whisky Galore in the identical yr. Since then, they’ve had very profitable productions of Nunsense; Girls on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; A Humorous Factor Occurred on the Strategy to the Discussion board; The Steamie and Evita.

Whisky Galore – A Musical is carried out with a small forged of 15 actors and so they embrace many very skilled lead performers from golf equipment from throughout Glasgow and Lanarkshire. The present is collectively produced by Alan Jones and prime Lanarkshire director and choreographer, Joanne Tulips. Musical Director is award profitable David Fisher. And choreography is by Sarah Sales space.

WHISKY GALORE – A MUSICAL.

Rutherglen City Corridor: seventeenth – twentieth Might 2023.

CAST LIST

Sergeant Main Alfred Odd – Ronnie Honey

Peggy Macroon – Jennifer McGowan

George Campbell – Will Pollock

Catriona Macleod – Samantha Todd

Mrs Campbell – Catherine Grace Usher

Captain Paul Waggett – John McKenzie

Joseph Macroon – Jonathan Procter

Father Macalister – Iain Fraser

Roderick MacRurie – James Cassidy