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23 April 2003

Burns play to support Uist hedgehog rescue

Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR) is delighted that the Baudrans Production Theatre Company is dedicating its opening night of BURNS! (Your Bard, By the Way)’ or ’Burns withoot Bunnets’ to raising funds for the rescue operation.

The play is being performed as part of the ’Burns an’ a’ That’ Festival and opens on Monday 5th May at the Tam o’ Shanter Experience, Alloway.

The opening night will include an Address by Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton at 7.30pm, prior to the performance. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the UHR Fund. The Duchess of Hamilton’s home, Lennoxlove Estate, has many connections with the Burns family and she serves on the Committee of Advocates for Animals, one of the consortium of organisations working together as UHR.

It’s a claim made time and again - ’a new take on the life of Burns’ - but this time it’s true! What makes BURNS! (Your Bard, By the Way) different? Two actors play all twenty roles, moving seamlessly across age, gender and class to create a piece of theatre that will leave you breathless. Hilarious comedy contrasts with heart-breaking tragedy and is interwoven with some of the most beautiful singing of Burns’ songs you’re ever likely to hear. But this is not the usual compilation of excerpts. BURNS! (Your Bard, By the Way) is a dramatisation of the life of Burns from birth to death in just 70 minutes, told in a dialogue that is entirely in rhyming Scots.

The play runs from Monday 5th - Saturday 10th May nightly (no show on Thursday) at 7.30 pm at the Tam o’ Shanter Experience, Alloway. Tickets priced £6/£4 on sale at venue Tel: 01292 443700.

Notes to Editors

For further information contact: Sian Ross, Director, Baudrans Productions Theatre Company Ltd. Tel: 01592 870188/07736 647493 jane@baudrans.co.uk, www.baudrans.co.uk.

Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR) consists of: Advocates for Animals, the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, Hessilhead Animal Rescue Centre,International Animal Rescue, the Mammals Society ans St Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital.

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