The 2012 show

We will be back in the Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline every evening from Wednesday 8 February to Saturday 11 February, with the usual Saturday matinée. Tickets are now available from members, by phoning the ticket hotline on 07582 731290, or by email at ticketsales@dgass.org.uk.

Tickets for the Wednesday and Thursday evenings are £12, with £10 concessions, Friday and Saturday evenings are £15, with £14 concessions, and the Saturday matinée is only £8. Do bring your children or grandchildren, who can enjoy a £5 seat at three of the performances! You can download a booking form complete with seating plan at this link.

We are moving the show overnight to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre for an evening performance on Sunday 12 February. This follows our successful debut appearance at Pitlochry this March, and will allow audiences from further afield to enjoy the same experience, the only difference being that we are using piano instead of orchestra, because the Pitlochry theatre has no pit.

The show we have selected for 2012 is that perennial favourite Iolanthe, which we last performed in 2003.

Iolanthe contains some of Gilbert’s finest political satire, which we are promised will be matched by a production by Peter Macfarlane that brings out some of its blacker elements. And the wit will be complemented by some of Sullivan’s finest music, realised by our Musical Director, Eddie Maclennan.

As the G&S Archive puts it “Both Gilbert and Sullivan were at the height of their creative powers in 1882, and many people feel that Iolanthe, their seventh work together, is the most perfect of their collaborations”.

What is it about? Who is taking part? Click the links in the side bar.

Other local shows

We aren’t the only Society with productions this Spring … 

Kirkcaldy G&S Society are performing Yeomen of the Guard at the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy from Thursday 8 March to Saturday 10 March. Evenings at 7.30pm and a Saturday matinée. Our very own Robin Ozog is both playing Jack Point and producing the show, and will be pleased to arrange tickets for you.

Rosyth and District Musical Society’s 60th Anniversary production of Carousel will be on the Carnegie stage at 7.15pm from Tuesday 27 March to Saturday 31 March.

Kelty Musical Association will be at Carnegie with Oklahoma! at 7.15pm from Tuesday 1 May to Saturday 5 May, with a Saturday matinée.

Edinburgh G&S Society offer their alternative production of Iolanthe rather later in the year than usual and at a different venue, Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. 7.30pm from Tuesday 1 May to Saturday 5 May, with a Saturday matinée, and pre-show Directors’ Talks at all performances.

Other events

The Sounds Braw ceilidh band invite you to their ceilidh at the Keavil House Hotel at 8.00pm on Saturday 20 April. Tickets £10.00, including refreshments, from Douglas Kerr: see him at any rehearsal!

If you have an event to share, please email Martin.