A STUNNING recipe of drama, music, children’s and family fun, dance, education and community events has been lined up in the summer season at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews.

One of the highlights next month is a triple bill performance by the leading choreographer David Hughes of pure dance, dance theatre and breakdance, film and animation.

The David Hughes Dance Group and Al Seed will be the St Andrews theatre’s new partners in residence this summer, thanks to the Scottish Arts Council’s partners’ project.

Byre spokesman David Orr said yesterday, “This is an exciting opportunity for the artists, the Byre and the Fife community to learn from some of the United Kingdom’s most respected dance and physical theatre artists.”

David Hughes will be working with school groups and groups at the Byre, including the Youth Theatre company and Haydays.

Al Seed, an award-winning performance artist in the field of circus, street arts and physical theatre, will lead outreach and education programmes across Fife. He will also be supporting the launch of a new theatre course at the Adam Smith College.

In July, and following last year’s Roald Dahl sell-out success The Twits, the Birmingham Stage Theatre in association with the Byre will present his hilarious classic children’s tale George’s Marvellous Medicine for a near four-week run.

From August 7-25, the National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable, also in association with the Byre, will present the award-winning production, Wolves In The Walls—based on the book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean—before it tours to the USA.

A three-day festival of lunchtime and evening performances from the renowned Oran MorE company from Glasgow will feature four shows—all new one-act plays, written, directed and performed by many of Scottish theatre’s leading lights from August 30 until September 1.

For youngsters inspired by what they see on stage, the Byre will present an opportunity to try acting and performance.

They will have the chance to join Baloo and Mowgli in The Jungle Book when the Scottish Musical Youth Theatre hosts a week-long series of children’s workshops climaxing with a production of the Rudyard Kipling classic adventure, giving the young actors the opportunity to show off their new-found skills.

Other highlights include Rapture Theatre with Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass from June 7-9; Peter Morrison and Friends on June 21; and the political thriller Cyprus, by the Mull Theatre Group from June 28-30.

Dundee-born Leslie Mackie is legendary French singer Edith Piaf on June 23, while on June 27 it’s the turn of R3 Tenors to take central stage.

The Christmas show from December 6-29 is a new musical version of Katie Morag by Lisa Grindall from a play originally commissioned by Mull Theatre based on the writings of Mairi Hedderwick.