Merry Opera returns to Cutty Sark with an exuberant production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Buckle your swash and enjoy an evening packed full of sentimental pirates, blundering policemen, absurd adventures, improbable paradoxes - and realistic women. A cocktail of Victorian light party fun with a twist of Merry Opera.
For their ‘Special Relationship’ Spring tour, Steve and Phil will be joined by acclaimed US singer songwriter, Richard Shindell.
Hailing from New Jersey but now a resident of Buenos Aries his songs ‘You Stay Here’, ‘Reunion Hill’ and ‘Next Best Western’ are already firmly part of the Show of Hands repertoire.
From the Great War to the Civil War, from Bristol to Baltimore, expect an Anglo/American exchange of songs of the road, history and romance.
Named for Rabbie Burns' beloved poem "Tam O'Shanter", Cutty Sark is the perfect place to celebrate Burns Night.
Explore Cutty Sark, dance to a live ceilidh band and experience Tam's story through a performance from Nannie, a key character of the poem and the figurehead of Cutty Sark herself. There will also be a performance from an Highland Piper, to celebrate Scotland's National Poet.
Jack stayed on when the guns fell silent, to search the battlefields for the boys that could not go home - for the dead and the missing, for both enemy and friend - and amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs Jack is looking for something - looking for someone. He has a promise to keep and a debt to repay, and now there is this strange request from the generals.
Join an incredible line up of comedy stars for a unique night of comedy in our very own Michael Edwards Studio Theatre!
Felicity Ward and Fin Taylor will be returning to Cutty Sark after thei popular previews in Pre-Edinburgh Comedy Season, joined by first time sailors Ed Gamble, Ellie Taylor and Brennan Reece!
A unique fusion of Renassiance choral music and jazz trumpet, plus 21st century sea songs, with the BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan and jazz trumpeter Tom Gardner, celebrating the Cutty Sark’s 149th birthday and in preparation for the 150th celebrations in 2019.
Saturday 24 November 2018
This November, Cutty Sark will be 149 years old. We are very excited to host BBC Singers in celebration of this anniversary, the first of a series of events in the lead up to a big year ahead in 2019.
Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Gilbert & Sullivan, sea shanties and a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's much loved poem Christmas at Sea which is 150 years old this year.
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; The decks were like a slide, where a seamen scarce could stand...Christmas at Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson
As if that wasn't enough, your ticket will include a mulled cider and a mince pie slice! Non-alcoholic options will be available.
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." – Longfellow
Daughter of a fortune-teller, granddaughter of a woman who returned from the dead, storyteller Olivia Armstrong is a weaver of tales, a mistress of enchantment who has been captivating audiences for over ten years.
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." – Longfellow
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." – Longfellow
Daughter of a fortune-teller, granddaughter of a woman who returned from the dead, storyteller Olivia Armstrong is a weaver of tales, a mistress of enchantment who has been captivating audiences for over ten years.
