REFLECTIONS OF A CONSTANT MONK to Tour Scotland

Join a modern monk as he, or sometimes she, makes a pilgrimage across central Scotland and explores the mysteries of life and love.

Reflections of a Constant Monk is a joyful and highly original show that combines performance, music and poetry. It takes audiences on a quest to discover a little more about themselves and their place in the universe.

The three-date tour follows on from a successful premiere at Edinburgh's Summerhall last year as part of the Luminate festival of creative ageing.

The monk comes from the imagination of award-winning Scottish-based New York playwright and poet Lee Gershuny. It is presented by Edinburgh's Elements World Theatre and the performers are all aged 50 to 70.

Gershuny said: "This is a show which is bursting with life and follows the fortunes of a modern monk who is full of playful curiosity about the world. It's about discovering what really matters and explores the big questions about life, love and our own mortality. This is a production that comes out of lived experience and the process we all go through as the certainties of youth begin to blur and we start to gain enough wisdom to recognise how little we really know. The monk could be any of us, someone who begins to understand that gender, religion, culture and background aren't really the essence of who we are."

The sense of fluidity, not least in gender, marks out Reflections of a Constant Monk as being very much a contemporary piece of work. Yet there's a timelessness in the questions it addresses like whether life has purpose, why bullies get away with trampling the weak and why we always seem to be on the brink of catastrophes of our own making.

Gentle and funny, poignant and intelligently observed, Reflections of a Constant Monk is full of parables, insights and questions but refreshingly free of firm conclusions.

Gershuny is joined on stage by an accomplished cast consisting of Robin Mason, music composer and director, James Bryce on keyboards and Peter Galinsky on clarinet.

Glasgow

• Wednesday, 15 November, 8:00 pm
• The Poetry Club,100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow, G3 8QG
• Ticket Prices: £8 In Advance / £10 At the Door
• Tickets Scotland: 0141 204 5151 or 0131 220-3234
• On-Line: www.tickets-scotland.com

Edinburgh

• Thursday, 16 November, 7:30 pm
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• 43-45 High Street
• Edinburgh EH1 1SR
• Post Performance Q & A
• Ticket Prices: £8 / £6 concession / £5.50 (SCS)
• Box Office: 0131 556 9579 or www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

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