Thunderstruck

Date: Saturday 28th May
Time: 8pm
Place: The Oak Room, The Rockfield Centre
Age: 12+
Cost: £12 Adult
£8 Concession

Booking is essential for this event

Live music event

Fresh from its sell-out fringe run, Thunderstruck explores the legacy and mythology surrounding folk musician, composer and innovator, Gordon Duncan. Written and performed by actor, writer and Fifer, David Colvin and directed by Tom Freeman as part of Scotland’s “Year of Stories” 2022.

Sensationally epic and brutally intimate, Thunderstruck is an international award winning production concerning the legacy and mythology of a Pitlochry bin man who flew beyond the summit of his art and changed Scottish music, forever. Celebrating a working class Scottish man who transcended his art, Thunderstruck is told through the eyes of a young piper from Fife learning the history, rules and proud traditions of Scotland’s national instrument. He watches on as those rules, so painfully learned are torn apart by a man with an unruly, ostentatious and untameable musical talent.

Thunderstruck is about Scotland, how as a nation we look after and nurture our most talented innovators. It’s about our reliance on alcohol, and most importantly it dispels the cultural cringe that comes with the Great Highland Scottish Bagpipe seeking to consolidate their place in the worlds musical lexicon as an instrument capable of great beauty and great subtlety.

Take whatever romantic notions you have of the bagpipes and leave them at the door.

Contains moments of very strong language.