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Citadel Arts Group is a Leith based performing
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McScroogeThis is Citadel's dementia-friendly mini panto by Alan Mountford directed by Mark Kydd, featuring James Bryce (McScrooge), Ashley Barlow (Marge, mother of Tiny Tim, and several other roles) and Mark himself as McCratchit, all the ghosts and Moira McIntosh! After opening at the Dementia Arts Festival, Citadel tours the show round the Ripple, various schools, care home and dementia centres - and at Leith Dockers Club on Dec 9th at 2pm. All performances are FREE. Oh yes, they are! . . . .   McScrooge Nov 15 2024 | By Allan Wilson ★★★★☆ Beautiful adaptation
Assembly Roxy: Thu
14 Nov 2024 "McScrooge by Alan Mountford and Leith’s Citadel Arts Group for the Scottish Dementia Arts Festival is a beautiful adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, designed to meet the particular needs of its audience, while retaining the key elements of the original novella. Rather than faithfully following Dickens with a show similar to Guy Masterson’s A Christmas Carol (which returns to the Roxy in December), the Citadel production follows the example of The Lyceum’s An Edinburgh Christmas Carol by transferring the main action to the Ebenezer McScrooge Care Home in Edinburgh and using a puppet, created by Freda O’Byrne, to represent Tiny Tim. More importantly, Citadel go ‘full panto’ by encouraging audience participation, the occasional song and bringing in many of the key tropes of the modern pantomime. The audience are encouraged to regularly ‘boo’ McScrooge, to the obvious relish of James Bryce, who is splendid in the role. There are shouts of ‘Behind you!’ as the chained ghost of Jacob McMarley creeps up behind McScrooge, while Moira McIntosh (one of a number of parts played by Ashley Barlow), a resident described as a troublemaker by McScrooge, attracts shouts of ‘Oh no, she’s not!’ countered with his time-honoured ‘Oh yes, she is!’......."
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| Citadel Arts Group is running a project in EH7 supported by the People's Postcode Lottery. We're collecting stories and local heritage to create a community play, scripted by Vince Maguire and other members of the Playwrights Workshop. Please contact lizhare@blueyonder.co.uk if you have any stories to share with us. | ||
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Leithers -
One Family
Citadel's new series of 10-minute audio plays are all based on separate chapters from William Haddow's popular historical novel, 'Leithers One Family'. The eleven audio dramas follow the fictitious Preston family of Leith through plague, war and poverty from the 14th to the 21st centuries.
Artwork by Anna Glantz |
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Citadel Arts Group would like to acknowledge the support of Leith Benevolent Asociation, Robertson Trust, Garfield Weston and William Syson Foundation. |
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