A huge thank you to everyone who took part in
The Big Shop Inverness
The Six Performances were:-
 
The Forest ( John Harvey)
In the Woods a group of relatives gather to remember a family member. The audience listen to headphones whilst being plunged into a strange dreamscape - This is theatre and installation and is as strange as it sounds.
Man: John Batty,
Woman: Joy Nelson
Girl: Eilidh Fox
Venue: Liz Fox and Declan Fox
Caged (Dave Smith and Euan Martin)
Jailed in the 19th century and on the streets in the 21st . Parallel worlds collide under the arches.
Fiona: Emma Reid
Alastair: Andy Jessiman
Venue: Emma Brierley
Poland (John Harvey)
A young Scottish Girl writes to her Grandfather in Poland and asks what means to be Polish... His replies are brought to life with puppets and objects.
Grandfather: Krysztof Wawrzynczak
Danuta: Gosia Grant
Puppeteer: Kim Bergsagel
Puppeteer: Chloe Purcell
Fiddler and Venue : Aileen Mackay
Where Helen Lies pt 3 (John Harvey)
Recording in front of a live audience the BBC Home Service bring you the third instalment of this 4 part thriller. Featuring the excellent radio-phonics workshop team.
Margery: Louise Munro
Bernard: Alan Mcdairmid
Dianne: Jenni Lomax
Helen: Miriam Crabtree
Lavinia: Claire Cameron
Radio-phonics technician: Stewart Brown
Radio-phonics technician: Maureen Pringle
Venue Manager : Anne Macdonald
Astral Job Centre (John Harvey )
Far from being empty, the old Job Centre, 33 The High Street, Inverness is haunted . Ghostly clerks try to fill the quotas on jobs such as 3 witches for a blasted heath. Or a seer for Brahan..
If they fail they are liable to be sent to the empty Bingo hall to play bingo forever..
Boss: John Harvey
Bag Lady: Lillian Ross
Scribe: Kathleen Irvine
Scribe: Rory Macdonald
Scribe: Duncan Smith
Scribe: Ewan Macintyre
Ghost: Geoff Skeet
Angelic Harpist: Shannie Mcdougal-Moodie
Devilish Fiddler: Ayliean MacDonald
Venue manager: Charles Macintyre
Wee Tartan Shoppie (Dave Smith and Euan Martin)
Buried in the heart of the Longman Estate is the Wee Tartan Shoppie, a mysterious gift shop that very few tourists ever leave . Who is the giant owner... why does she have a 7 foot giant orange sporran hiding in a cupboard?
The Courier: Seonaid Johansen
Hugh: Ewan Sinclair
Seonagh: Debbie Mackay
Shopkeeper: Jackie Goodie
Puppeteers: Eve Lambert
Paul Robinson
Monika Hoffman
Magdelena Olszewska
Carrie Marshall
Ka-Ghouls: Rebecca Dunn
Johann Dunn
Louise Urqhuart
Vinnie Holmes
Iain Stewart
Keith Watson
Richard Wood
Margaret MacKenz
Hannah Walton
Mannequin musician: Dominic Waugh
Venue : Iain Halket
The Big Shop is never the same wherever it is created.
Here in Inverness, in this fast evolving City, these six performances were created in six short weeks.
The energy and momentum to create the event is the stuff of theatre .What could be more exciting than working in spaces full of memories and transforming them through drama art and poetry into something that completely changes our perception of their existence.
Thank you to everyone who was part of The Inverness Big Shop, be you audience member or crew. This is an event you will always remember. It will never happen again and you can tell those who missed it, what they missed and make them very jealous.
Symon Macintyre Artistic Director
Conceived and directed by Symon Macintyre
Designed by Iain Halket
Puppets and props by Kim Bergsagel and Chloe Purcell
Costumes by Eve Lambert
Music for Wee Tartan Shoppie by Ewan Macintyre
PR and press: Jelica Gavrilovic
Production manager: Brian Gorman
Puppet Lab Administration: Reem Behzad, Adrian Barber, Susan Wilson
Production assistants: Emma Brierley, Paul Robinson, Sheila Livingston, Duncan Smith
The Inverness Big Shop has been grant-aided by Highland 2007 the H.I.E, Awards for All and the Highland Council.
The Big Shop Inverness acknowledges the support of Allied Souter Jaffrey, Burns and Partners, Rydens , Upland Developments and Waterbridge Developments. The use of their premises helped make this project possible.
Thanks to Jessica and Fabian at the Reading Worm, Zenwing Puppets, Arts in Motion, The Forestry Commission, The Old High Kirk Session for the use of the Old High Church , Ann and Mike for the song in “Where Helen Lies”, and anybody I missed... all help was gratefully received and much appreciated.
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