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Fleeman Productions will be touring a new full-length Doric play by Charles Barron in May 2010. A Bosie for Luck? is loosely based on incidents and characters from the short stories of David Toulmin, some of whose other stories provided the basis for Charles Barron’s one-act plays, Effie, Bertie, Bryce and Harry, all of which were toured by Fleeman Productions.

 

Details of the tour will appear here soon but likely dates include Midmar Village Hall on 12th,   Aberdeen Arts Centre on 15th,  New Deer Hall on 21st and The Warehouse, Lossiemouth on 22nd.

 

 

 

A Bosie for Luck?

 

Life on the Aberdeenshire farm provided a humdrum existence for Elsie despite having to cope with a weird sister, a husband obsessed with his pet doos, a saucy serving lass and an unpredictable neighbour. Nevertheless she didn’t find any of that very exciting.

 

But she didn’t realise how lucky she was. For suddenly she is swept into a series of events so unexpected and dramatic that they change the lives of everyone around her – and she feels that she alone is responsible.

 

Charles Barron again exploits the rich comic possibilities of the lives and characters of the people of the north east as created by David Toulmin. But eventually the laughter must stop as Elsie’s fate takes its unexpected twist. As her fey sister, Bathia, warns, ‘Deaths aye come in threes’.

 

Taking part in this production are several familiar names from previous Fleeman tours, including Yvonne Morton, Jill Hay, Liz Loggie, Brian McDonald and Scott Neish. Linny Casson takes her second role with the company having joined us for The Surrogate and Belinda Findlay, one of Aberdeen’s most experienced actresses, joins us for the first time.

 

Charles Barron is directing the play himself on this occasion.