Tally’s Blood

Tue 10 Oct - Sat 14 Oct (13:00 – 19:30)

Main Auditorium
Classical Drama

Presented by Cumbernauld Theatre Company, The Gaiety Theatre, Ayr and Perth Theatre
Written by Ann Marie Di Mambro
Directed by Ken Alexander

There is hardly a town or city in Scotland that doesn’t have its own Italian café, chippy or ice-cream parlour. And it’s in one of these much-loved establishments that the story of Tally’s Blood starts…

Lucia can wrap her aunt and uncle around her little finger, cry to order, and she doesn’t like going to school. She likes Hughie though, so much so that they seal their friendship with a secret ceremony in the shop storeroom – aided by an illicit bottle of ‘ginger’.

Auntie Rosinella loves Lucia like all the children she never had, but will anyone – particularly a ‘Scotch’ boy – be good enough for the girl she loves ‘best in the whole wide world’?

As childhood camaraderie blossoms into romance, Lucia and Hughie face more challenges than the fact their countries are taking opposing sides in the Second World War.

Told with heart and humour, Tally’s Blood follows an Italian immigrant family in Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1950s, in a tale of poverty, passion and prejudice that travels from the west of Scotland to the sun-baked Italian countryside.

This new production marks 20 years since Ken Alexander directed the last professional tour of Tally’s Blood in 2003.

We love and laugh and hope and fear and dance and play… This is the stuff of life.

Ann Marie Di Mambro

Dates

  • 10Oct

      Tue 13:00pm
      Main Auditorium

      Tickets £10.00-16.00.
      Running time: 2 hours

    • 10Oct

        Tue 19:30pm
        Main Auditorium

        Tickets £10.00-16.00.
        Running time: 2 hours

      • 11Oct

          Wed 13:00pm
          Main Auditorium

          Tickets £10.00-16.00.
          Running time: 2 hours

        • 11Oct

            Wed 19:30pm
            Main Auditorium

            Tickets £10.00-16.00.
            Running time: 2 hours

          • 12Oct

              Thu 13:00pm
              Main Auditorium

              Tickets £10.00-16.00.
              Running time: 2 hours

            • 12Oct

                Thu 19:30pm
                Main Auditorium

                Tickets £10.00-16.00.
                Running time: 2 hours

              • 13Oct

                  Fri 19:30pm
                  Main Auditorium

                  Tickets £10.00-16.00.
                  Running time: 2 hours

                • 14Oct

                    Sat 14:30pm
                    Main Auditorium

                    Tickets £10.00-16.00.
                    Running time: 2 hours

                  • 14Oct

                      Sat 19:30pm
                      Main Auditorium

                      Tickets £10.00-16.00.
                      Running time: 2 hours

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