McSkimming, John
Six Black Candles
| Year | 2009 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Gilbride, Andy | Actors | McSkimming, John|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Air, Aileen|Doherty, Audrey|Fitzgerald, Joanna|Gibson, Betty|McCreadie, Linzi|Roach, Moira|Swinley, Eve | Playwright(s) | Dillon, Des |
Six sisters,their maw and granny gather to kill by witchcraft the mistress of CarolineCs wayward husband. Six black candles, one black affronted maw, two gallons of vodka, one crazy old Irish granny, a pile of burning boxer shorts, barrels of bickering, a hit-man, a pentangle and a frozen head in the fridge, plus one adulterous husband and one unsuspecting Catholic priest. In a nutshell - these are the ingredients for Six Black Candles.
Central Park West
| Year | 2010 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | One Act Plays | Director(s) | Doherty, George | Actors | McSkimming, John|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Cheape, Carolyn|Gordon, Muriel|Strachan, Shona | Playwright(s) | Allen, Woody |
Paras over The Barras
| Year | 2011 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Gibson, Betty | Actors | Black, Tom|Cheape, David|Gilbride, Andy|Laing, Ali|McSkimming, John|Soutar, Dave|Swinley, Jerry|Wells, Alex|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Dey, Caroline|Doherty, Audrey|Gordon, Muriel|Harper, Mairi|Harper, Niamh|Harrison, Carolyn|Roach, Moira|Strachan, Jacqui|Swinley, Eve|Wilson, Ann | Playwright(s) | Barclay, James |
| Photo Album | Paras over The Barras |
There's a war on and for Glasgow, like the rest of Britain, that means air raids, black-outs, food rationing, barrage balloons and the pain of parting as husbands and fathers go off to fight.
For the McSorleys and their neighbours in the East End tenements its a case of making the best of what life has to offer.
This is their laugh-a-line story capturing all the wit and spirit of city life during the dark days of the forties when the grit and humour of Glaswegians overcame all adversities. James Barclay has created a marvellous range of characters which evoke a wonderful nostalgic picture of the Glasgow we used to know.
On Golden Pond
| Year | 2010 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Wilson, Grant | Actors | Doherty, George|McSkimming, John|Ruddell, Sam | Actresses | Cheape, Carolyn|Fitzgerald, Joanna|Gibson, Betty | Playwright(s) | Thompson, Ernest |
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?
Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves
| Year | 2010 | Venue(s) | Carnoustie High School Theatre | Style | Pantos / Musicals | Director(s) | Cheape, Carolyn | Actors | Cheape, David|Doherty, George|Gilbride, Andy|Laing, Ali|Manson, Phil|McSkimming, John|Roach, Grant|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Crabb, Susan|Doherty, Audrey|Gordon, Muriel|McCreadie, Linzi|Swinley, Eve | Musical Director(s) | Gilbride, Andy | Choreographer(s) | Chalmers, Vicki|Crabb, Susan|Forbes, Fiona|McCreadie, Linzy | Playwright(s) | Swan, David |
The story centres on Ali Baba a poor barber living with his son, Rhum.
Although poor he is very happy, except when he is trying to avoid the romantic advances of his neighbour, Fatima Kebab.
The happiness does not last, however, as evil appears in the form of El Scorpio, a mysterious character, and his band of thieves who are after all the riches in the land.
But will everything go to their evil plan? This pantomime had lots to offer with laughs, goodies to cheer and as ever, baddies to boo.
The Legend of Cinderella
| Year | 2009 | Venue(s) | Carnoustie High School Theatre | Style | Pantos / Musicals | Director(s) | Gibson, Betty | Actors | Doherty, George|Gibson, Dick|Gilbride, Andy|Laing, Ali|McSkimming, John|Roach, Grant|Ruddell, Sam|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Doherty, Audrey|Gordon, Muriel|McCreadie, Linzi|Swinley, Eve | Musical Director(s) | Gilbride, Andy | Choreographer(s) | Crabb, Susan|McCreadie, Linzy | Playwright(s) | Ferguson, Alistair|Richardson, Alan |
| Photo Album | The Legend of Cinderella |
Narrated and told in "flashback" by Buttons, "The Legend of Cinderella" is an affectionate variation on the classic Panto tale beloved of generations of theatregoers
A Fine Gentleman
| Year | 2008|2009 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre|Webster Theatre Arbroath | Style | One Act Plays | Director(s) | Strachan, Paul | Actors | Doherty, George|Gilbride, Andy|McSkimming, John | Actresses | Hutchison, Kelly|Roach, Moira|Strachan, Shona|Swinley, Eve | Awards | Ian McKay Trophy|Jess Milne Quaich | Playwright(s) | Richardson, Alan |
| Photo Album | A Fine Gentleman |
Treasure Island
| Year | 2007 | Venue(s) | Carnoustie High School Theatre | Style | Pantos / Musicals | Director(s) | Cheape, David | Actors | Doherty, George|Gilbride, Andy|Laing, Ali|McGregor, Ewan|McSkimming, John|Ruddell, Sam|Strachan, Paul|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|MacDonald, Laura|Ramsay, Katherine|Strachan, Shona | Musical Director(s) | Gilbride, Andy | Choreographer(s) | Brymer, Kim|Crabb, Susan|Forbes, Fiona|Gibson, Betty|McCreadie, Linzy | Playwright(s) | Sperinck, Jim |
| Photo Album | http://www.dibbletree.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=2596 |
This year's panto sees us meeting outside the Admiral Benbow Inn owned
by Aunt Sally Forth, assisted by her son Jack and his sister Mary. In
on the tide comes Long John Silver who holds one half of a treasure
map. With him are his merry band of henchmen, Jolly Roger and Blind
Pugh & Israel hands and Ben Gunn;
Jim Hawkins, joins the above mentioned along with Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey, not forgetting Spot the Dog and together we all sail off on The Hispaniola in search of the long lost treasure. Sally Forth holds the other half of the map and Silver tries to get his hands on it any way he can by hook or by crook!
Arriving on the desert island everyone goes off in search of the treasure which leads to much skull duggery. Who will find the treasure, and will we have a happy ever after?
The Yellow On The Broom
Betsy Whyte was born into a traveller family in 1919 and brought up in the age old tradition of the 'mist people' - constantly moving around the country and settling down in one place only during the winter. It was while the family were 'housed up' at this time of the year that she received her education, attending a number of village schools before winning a scholarship to Brechin High School, where she was the only traveller child. She gave up the traveller life when she married in 1939 and started writing about her childhood in the 1970s.
The Yellow On The Broom is the first part of her autobiography. Not only is it a fascinating insight into the life and customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 30s, it is also a thought proving account of human strength and weakness, courage and cowardice, understanding and prejudice by a sensitive and entertaining writer.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
| Year | 2006 | Venue(s) | Carnoustie High School Theatre | Style | Pantos / Musicals | Director(s) | Cheape, Carolyn | Actors | Blackmore, Connor|Doherty, George|Doran, Jerrard|Gilbride, Andy|McSkimming, John|Munro, Lewis|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|Crabb, Lucy|Doran, Carolyn|Gilbride, Anna|Gilbride, Megan|Gordon, Muriel|Gunn, Molly|McDonald, Emma | Musical Director(s) | Gilbride, Andy | Choreographer(s) | Brymer, Kim|Crabb, Susan|Doran, Carolyn|Forbes, Fiona|Gibson, Betty|McCreadie, Linzy|Roberts, Kirsty|Storm, Carole | Playwright(s) | Duckham, Stephen |
| Photo Album | http://www.dibbletree.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=1657 |
Our annual pantomine for 2006 is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by Stephen Duckam. As usual this show will take place in Carnoustie High School's Theatre.
Snow White is eighteen and to Queen Malevolent’s rage is pronounced ‘fairest in the land’ by the Spirit of the Mirror. Handsome Prince Rupert arrives at court and is instantly attracted to Snow White...
Sequinned Suits and Platform Boots
| Year | 2006 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | One Act Plays | Director(s) | Brymer, Kim|Dorran, Carolyn|Gibson, Betty|Roberts, Mark | Actors | Dey, Lewis|Docherty, Sean|Gilbride, Andy|McGregor, Ewan|McSkimming, John|Roberts, Mark|White, Ross|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|Campbell, Eilidh|Easton, Lynne|Gordon, Muriel|Ogilive, Jennifer|Wiseman, Steph | Choreographer(s) | Brymer, Kim|Doran, Carolyn | Playwright(s) | Wheeller, Mark |
| Photo Album | http://www.dibbletree.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=51 |
Shakey Threwer invites the audience to take a trip back with him to the early seventies to the era of his youth, when he and his 14 year old friends tried to form a glam rock band. Poor Shakey's life (like any other 14-year-olds) doesn't quite go to plan.
The play is linked together with music of the time.
This Show was put on as a charity event for the following local societies and charities
Panbride Youth Group , Innes Wilson Trust , Tayside Special Olympics , Explorer Scouts , Carnoustie Walkers , Diabetics UK [Angus Branch] , Carnoustie Girl Guides
When Did You Last See Your Trousers?
| Year | 2000 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Gibson, Dick | Actors | Beckett, Andrew|Cheape, David|McSkimming, John|Roach, Grant|Ruddell, Sam|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Cathro, Kirsten|Crabb, Susan|Gordon, Muriel | Playwright(s) | Antrobus, John|Galton, Ray |
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
| Year | 2006 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Cheape, David | Actors | Doherty, George|Doran, Jerrard|Gibson, Dick|Gilbride, Andy|Laing, Ali|McSkimming, John|Roach, Grant|Ruddell, Sam|Soutar, Dave|Strachan, Paul|Waggott, Peter|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|Dey, Caroline|Doran, Carolyn|Wiseman, Steph | Playwright(s) | Wasserman, Dale |
| Photo Album | http://www.dibbletree.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=235 |
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is set in the day room of a state mental hospital. It deals with the change in status quo when an inmate of the local prison feigns insanity to escape the work farm. Randle P McMurphy's arrival on the ward has a dramatic effect on his fellow inmates and life on the ward will never be the same again.
David Cheape chose the above play, based on the best selling novel by Ken Kesey and perhaps best remembered as an iconic film of the 1970’s starring Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Louise Fletcher, as his 3rd production for CTC .
The original play premiered on Broadway in 1963 starring Gene Wilder and Kirk Douglas. It was revised from three to two acts in 1971 and ran for 1,025 performances, helping launch Danny DeVito into the public eye. In 2004 the play took the Edinburgh Festival and then the West End by storm starring Christian Slater, Mackenzie Crook and Frances Barber.
A Witch, A Wizard and a Dumpling
| Year | 2005 | Venue(s) | Carnoustie High School Theatre | Style | Pantos / Musicals | Director(s) | Gibson, Betty | Actors | Dey, Lewis|Gibson, Dick|Gilbride, Andy|Laing, Ali|MacLeman, Andy|MacLeman, Chris|McSkimming, John|Roach, Grant|Roberts, Mark|Waggott, Peter|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|Cheape, Carolyn|Gilbride, Anna|Gordon, Muriel|McCreadie, Linzi|Preston, Kirsty|Riddoch, June|Roach, Moira|Sturrock-Waggott, Beth|Whalen, Pam | Musical Director(s) | Gilbride, Andy | Choreographer(s) | Chalmers, Vicki|Doran, Carolyn|Forbes, Fiona | Playwright(s) | Gibson, Betty |

