Welcome Kenny, Annie and Jane!

Thrilled to be able to welcome three lovely new faces to our team! Fantastic actor Kenny Lindsay is joining our cast as John Mackenzie. Acclaimed Scottish singer and multi-instrumentalist Annie Grace is also joining us on stage and I can't wait to hear her weave some musical magic! And the PR guru Jane Hamilton has joined our team to work on our 2013 tour. Welcome! So honoured and excited to be working with you all. More details to follow!

Tour Details Announced!

Massively excited to finally be able to publish our full tour schedule for 'The Idiot at the Wall' 2013! Head to our 'Book Tickets' page for all the deets! Big thank you to Creative Scotland, The Touring Network, N.E.A.T, and The Beacon Arts Centre for your support on this, our first tour :-)

We're opening at the Beacon!!

We are delighted to announce that on September 14th, 2013, we will launch our Scottish Tour of 'THE IDIOT AT THE WALL' at the beautiful Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock. Thank you very much to Julie Ellen and Jade for showing us around yesterday! This is a stunning new development, perched right on the water, looking over to River Clyde estuary to Argyll and Dunbartonshire. The perfect theatre from which to transport you all to a tiny Hebridean island.....this is one the gallery spaces upstairs....check out the view....

We are honoured to be opening our new production at the Beacon's wonderful Studio Theatre, which is playing host to some of Scotland's best touring artists and companies!

Check out The Beacon HERE !

More details to follow on how to book. For those of you in Edinburgh, we'll be running a bus through to the opening, if you wanna catch a lift with us......sounds like TROUBLE!! YEAH!

Love and Light!

Stoirm Òg xxx

Loads of News!!

It's been AGES since I had time to write.....but here we are in July!! Thank you Universe, for the sunshine!

We've had an amazing month! We've been meeting some brilliant actors for the role of John in 'The Idiot at the Wall' - watch this space :-)

We raised almost 2700 pounds in a hugely successful Kickstarter fundraising campaign - thank you SO much to all who have been supporting us, and spreading the word!

Also, we're thrilled to have found one of the final pieces of the puzzle.....our Touring Production Manager! We are going to be joined on this tour by the very lovely Susan Martin - more details on her to follow. She's ace! Welcome Susan!

Finally, I'm about to tell you all about where we're launching the tour....and VERY excited we are, too.....

Stoirm Òg xxx

Fancy touring with us??

We are currently seeking a Touring Production Manager. Please head to our 'Work With Us' page for more information, and get in touch if interested. Thank you!

Elspeth xo

Are you a Production Designer?

We are now seeking a Production Designer to work with us on our tour of 'The Idiot at the Wall'. Head to our 'Work With Us' page for more information, and get in touch if you're interested - we'd love to hear from you :-) Thanks!
Deadline 26/4/13

Stoirm Òg xo

We have a new name!!

'Stoirm Òg'

I'm super excited to announce our new name...... 'Stoirm Òg', which is Gaelic for 'Young Storm'. It's pronounced 'sturum og' ('stuh' as in 'sturdy'!).....eeazzee peezee! 

So how come this happened....?! I really liked the name 'First Bicycle', which Angie and I hit upon (in a mad hurry!) last year - it was inspired by a line in 'The Idiot at the Wall' which talked about the first bicycle coming to the island, and then it also made us think of risk, trying new things and such :-) However, having lived with the company and thought about what we are, what we're doing, and what we hope to do, I wanted to listen to instinct and find a name which I will love saying a hundred times a day, and which I've found through the brainstorming, faith, and rigour with which I like to work. I've settled on a Gaelic name because I'm in the midst of what I hope will be a long love affair with the language, because I feel totally at home speaking it, and because I'd like to honour that by combining it with this other thing I love like crazy, which is theatre. A massive thank you to all those I consulted (including some esteemed Gaelic scholars I was able to hassle about it) - thank you for your wisdom, honesty, encouragement, and brilliant anecdotes :-) I arrived at this name through tons of exploration, and in the end gave most consideration to words that would sustain and inspire me through ups and downs! The challenging business of producing art is such that it has the potential to kill the youthful spirit of adventure and wonder essential to making the art in the first place, and I wanted a name that would remind me to retain my sense of humour, and loving approach, even in the wildest tempests :-) Also, the word 'storm' is awesome because it reminds me so much of the mood which often envelops ideas....when they're forming, when you start to nurture them, when they won't do what they're told etc - and it'll be great to remember that ideas are like wild little storms crashing around, and they just need some structure and love to let them develop into amazing work. The brilliant director, and my dear friend, Lisa Milinazzo once said to me: 'Remember that nothing is ever created - no matter how huge or impressive - that didn't begin as a tiny, tiny seed' I thought of that loads on my journey to a new name...thanks Lisa :-) What was also tricky, was anticipating the many ways various Gaelic words might be pronounced by those with no knowledge of Gaelic - and I am very keen not to exclude people or scare them off from talking about us 'n stuff ;-) What I've arrived at, though, is super easy to pronounce, and feels nice to say, too....who doesn't like Scottish 'r' sounds??! So don't be scared of messing it up....no big deal :-) Gaelic is brilliant and might even be lodged somewhere in your unconscious memory of a past life.....

Oh, and I kinda like how 'young storm' sounds like the coming-of-age name of someone in an ancient, indigenous tribe.....so that's sweeeeeeet.

Enough rambling already....anyways - that's why I'm taking us forward with a shiny new name! I hope you like :-)

Now back to tour-planning.....

Slàn!

Elspeth xo

Artistic Director
Stoirm Òg