Whitburn Band is delighted to announce that it will be part of a major project next year with the National Theatre of Scotland.
The band will perform in Martin Green's Keli as it tours Scotland for the first time.
Whitburn will play in 12 shows in total in May and June when Keli is performed at the Macrobert Arts Centre in Stirling, the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and the Tramway Theatre in Glasgow.
This follows Whitburn’s collaboration with Ivor Novello winner Green on Keli, which first premiered at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in 2022 and was followed by a landmark performance at Celtic Connections in Glasgow earlier this year, which was described as a “profoundly moving” show in a five-star review by The Scotsman newspaper.
Green’s Keli tells the story of a fiery, sharp-witted 17-year-old in a former mining town. Coal means little to Keli, but the mines left music in the blood of this place.
As the best player her brass band has ever had, music is easy. Everything else is a fight. Feeling trapped in small-town life, pressure mounts. When the chance to change everything arises, can Keli keep a lid on it all?
Marking 40 years since the miners' strike and featuring a sharp, hilarious script, Keli is a gripping show about community, creativity, and music.
The production, which contains strong language, is written and composed by Green and directed by Bryony Shanahan.
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