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The Strange
Undoing of Prudencia Hart to go
stateside with Benromach.
 Benromach
Single Malt Whisky is set to go overseas
with the National Theatre of Scotland as
it continues to sponsor an international
tour of the Strange Undoing of Prudencia
Hart in America.
Building on its successful partnership
with the National Theatre Scotland and
following its support of the production
at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last
year, the production will tour Scotland,
England and internationally in 2012 and
2013.
Some US dates are sponsored by Benromach
Single Malt Whisky, with American
audiences being offered the opportunity
to share a dram of the Speyside Scotch
Malt during the show. This sponsorship
will cover all US venues where state
legislation allows and is part of
Benromach’s venturing into the arts and
their first foray into international
arts touring.
In keeping with the site-specific
origins of the show, the production will
be staged in taverns, breweries, and
community spaces and studios with bars
built in, where stories are told,
re-told, sung and passed on. It’s an
evening of supernatural storytelling,
music and theatre inspired by the Border
Ballads, Robert Burns and the poems of
Robert Service.
The show opens at the Wicked Wolf
Tavern, Festival of New Ideas, New Haven
in Connecticut on 20th June before
moving on to North Carolina, Chicago,
Massachusetts, Ohio, Purdue, Washington
DC, Michigan, Texas and California. The
production will also be visiting
Vancouver, Canada, Australia, and New
Zealand and Brazil.
Commenting on the sponsorship, Michael
Urquhart Joint Managing Director of
Gordon & MacPhail, owners of the
Benromach Distillery in Forres, said:
"We’re proud to be supporting this tour
as it goes international. Scotland has
many world-class artists and this
individual and artistic performance
deserves to be shared with the UK and
people internationally. The US already
enjoys one of Scotland’s other fine
traditions being one of the largest
export markets for Scotch whisky so we
hope the audience enjoys sharing a free
dram of Benromach with this great
performance."
The tale of Prudencia Hart, an uptight
academic, follows her as she sets off to
attend a conference one wintery morning
in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. As the
snow begins to fall, little does she
know who or what awaits her there. Her
wild journey through the night takes her
into and out of different supernatural
and natural realms looking for folk
songs.
Elly Rothnie, Development Director,
National Theatre of Scotland said: "The
Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart was a
huge success at the Fringe last year and
our audiences loved sampling one of
Scotland's finest malt whiskies as part
of the experience. We are thrilled to
continue this important partnership in
2012 where we will take the production
and Benromach whisky to new audiences
across the globe."
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
originally toured Scotland in February
2011 subsequently playing at a number of
top venues in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The
production has won two awards, a CATS
Award for Best Music and Sound and a
Herald Angel.
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