Christmas may not be quite upon us but the Brunton has already announced their 2015 Spring programme of that comprises a selection of drama, dance, music, comedy, film and children’s theatre to suit all tastes.
From January onwards, The Brunton acts as a local cinema showing new releases every Wednesday including critically acclaimed films such as Mr Turner, Interstellar, The Imitation Game, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, My Old Lady, The Theory of Everything and Testament of Youth.
Royal Opera House Live brings some gems of theatre, opera and ballet with productions ranging from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to Puccini’s La Boheme and Wagner's early masterpiece, The Flying Dutchman while National Theatre Live cinema screenings include Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman and Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem .
Popular Scottish comedian Craig Hill kicks off the comedy season in January with his 2014 Fringe show Give Him an Inch and in March Blackeyed Theatre stage Teechers, a humorous take of life at a modern comprehensive with April seeing ageing, agony-aunt Athy in The Devil Wears Primark.
A varied music programme comes with the Brunton’s Lunchtime and High Tea Classical Concerts that include Edinburgh pianist Susan Tomes with Beethoven’s Bagatelles, the Maxwell String Quartet with Schubert’s Rosamunde, the acclaimed Hebrides Ensemble with Horn Quintet and one of the world's leading Bach performers, John Butt with Preludes and Fugues from the Well- Tempered Clavier.
The ever popular tribute bands take the stage this time including The Simon and Garfunkel Story, Counterfeit Sixties, The Blue Brothers Experience, Dire Strait’s Music for Nothing, and the ABBA concert show Thank You for the Music. A programme of Scottish music kicks off with Borders’ folk ‘n’ roll band Scocha, followed by the Boys of the Lough and Foster & Allen who embark on their Gold and Silver Scottish Tour.
Ballet West will perform the classic Romeo and Juliet, MacRobert & Barrowland Ballet bring The Pine Tree, Poggle and Me for young audiences and The Typist is a piece of dance theatre narrated by Alexei Sayle.
From an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Jekyll and Hyde from Jo Clifford to Andrew Dallmeyer’s Thank God For John Muir and Just So - The Extraordinary Life and Times of Rudyard Kipling starring well known British actor Robert Powell, drama looks to be well served.
The Brunton will again be host to the John Muir Festival and Puppet Animation Festival, during which Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre will perform Rapunzel.
All tickets are available now on 0131 665 2240 or online at www.thebrunton.co.uk