A Six Inch Layer of Topsoil And the Fact it Rains

3rd MAY - 19th MAY 2018

In spring last year Perth Theatre's Artistic Director Lu Kemp and playwright Kieran Hurley set off around rural Perthshire to speak with the people who live on this land, about rural life.

Wearing inappropriate footwear and driving a dinky wee car that is quite frankly not cut out for these muddy roads, the pair spoke to many hundreds of people. The result is A Six Inch Layer of Topsoil and The Fact It Rains; a night at the theatre that playfully weaves verbatim extracts of these conversations together with music and song to paint a picture of a changing community made up of wonderful characters.

We'll hear from farmers young and old, migrant seasonal workers, climate change campaigners, Lairds and land owners, land reformers, politicians and families as we ask what it means to provide for the future, to nourish and sustain each other, and to live together on this land.

Performed by Melody Grove and Aly Macrae - original cast members of the National Theatre of Scotland's hugely popular production The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

This is you, in your own words, as we heard them.

Showing at venues across Perthshire as follows:

• Thu 3 + Fri 4 May: 7.30pm Rehearsal Room, Perth Theatre (Previews)
• Wed 9 May: 7.30pm Aberfeldy Town Hall
• Thu 10 May: 7.30pm Birnam Arts Centre
• Fri 11 May: 7.30pm Strathearn Artspace, Crieff
• Wed 16 May: 7.30pm Blair Atholl Village Hall
• Thu 17 May: 7.30pm Alyth Town Hall
• Fri 18 May: 7.30pm Blairgowrie Town Hall
• Sat 19 May: 7.30pm Loch Leven Community Campus, Kinross

Tickets £10. On sale from Perth Concert Hall + Perth Theatre and
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