The Edinburgh Reporter March 2019

14 WHAT’S ON The Edinburgh Reporter
Theatre | Art | Music | Shows | Festivals
HippFest 2019
by Adam Zawadzki
The UK premiere of the 1922 Hound of the Baskervilles
features in a packed programme
THE 9th Hippodrome Silent
Film Festival, otherwise known
affectionately as HippFest will
run over five days next month
in Bo’ness at Scotland's oldest
purpose-built cinema.
HippFest the annual
event produced by Falkirk
Community Trust will run from
20 to 24 March 2019 and is the
only festival dedicated to silent
film in Scotland.
One of the main highlights
this year is the UK premiere of
the restored 90 year-old feature
'Hound of the Baskervilles' - the
final Sherlock Holmes silent
ever made. Until only 10 years
ago, the film was missing and
believed lost. It has an international
cast with six leads from
six different countries.
Pianist Mike Nolan will play
for many of the films but here
in our photograph he is posing
as Sherlock Holmes
Found in the basement of
a Polish priest, this feature
was the holy grail of the silent
film world and this surviving
print had only Czech intertitles.
After a full restoration by
the San Francisco Silent Film
Festival and Poland's National
Film Archive last year, new
English intertitles and minor
missing scenes were bridged
with a series of stills.
Alison Strauss, Festival
Director, said: "We're so excited
to be launching the 9th Hippodrome
Silent Film Festival.
We've come a long way and
now we're just heading towards
these five days of fantastic
premieres of restorations,
musicians coming from all
over the world and audiences
coming from all over Scotland."
"The music for many people
is the highlight. When you add
the live music element to the
silent films everything's lifted."
"Accompanying all our films,
including the Sherlock Holmes
film, will be musicians many of
whom are improvising or using
semi notated scores or new
commissions. The music for
many people is the highlight.
When you add the live music
element to the silent films
everything's lifted, and it's
extraordinary to witness
musicians unrolling this other
level of story."
"The opening screening
which is going to be 'Rob Roy'
was filmed in 1922, on location
not far from here and with
hundreds of soldiers from
the Argyll Regiment. It's just
wonderful to see a Scottish
story and Scottish intertitles
upon the screen in Scotland's
oldest cinema."
"This wasn’t the first film
version of the subject but it is
certainly the most epic, and it
hasn’t been screened since it
took Scottish picture houses
by storm in 1922. Now, and
with the added wow-factor of
David Allison’s new score, we
are sure people will experience
all the thrill and excitement of
seeing this significant Scottish
production on the big screen,
just like the audiences one
hundred years ago."
Musician David Allison
said: "I'm really looking
forward to coming back to
this wonderful festival at the
Hippodrome which is truly
an extraordinary venue. ‘Rob
Roy’ is an ambitiously staged
tale of romance and nationalist
pride and it’s an honour to get
to write and perform music to
one of Scotland’s most iconic
figures."
For our interview
scan here
Your Day by Day guide
1 March 2019 is World Day
of Prayer
There will be prayer services
prepared by the Christian Women
of Slovenia at St Fillans Episcopal
on Buckstone Drive, Duddingston
Kirk, Morningside Parish Church,
Augustine United Reformed
Church, St Andrew’s and St
George’s West in the morning and
a variety of other churches in the
afternoon. Details:
wdpscotland.org.uk
Collabro at The Queen’s Hall 1
March
The group are known for their
spectacular covers of songs from
the world of musical theatre, as
well as by popular artists. On
their third album, Home, they
tackled songs from the likes
of Les Miserables and Beauty And
The Beast.
The Fantastical Chocolate
Festival 2 March
2 March £17.00 at Assembly
Rooms – 11.30am-8.30pm to book
tickets phone: 0131 220 4348
Wee Treasures
ages 2-5 drop in event at Scottish
National Portrait Gallery 2 March,
10:30am & 11:30am – admission
free – no tickets, sign-up on
the day
Edinburgh Quartet
Island Verses is a new commission
by up and coming, but
already critically acclaimed,
composer Peter Longworth. The
piece is a combination of music
and spoken word, featuring texts
written by school students from
the Scottish Isles exploring island
life and sense of place, devised by
Ron Butlin. At The Queen’s Hall on
3 March 2019 at 3.00pm.
Jessie Cave : Sunrise The Stand
3 March 2019
Jessie Cave brings her tales
of her recent break-up and the
attempts to get her life back in
order to Edinburgh
Edinburgh Quartet
will play Exile for the first time
ever in public. The new piece,
titled Island Verses, has been
written specifically to engage with
young people on the Quartet’s tour
of some of Scotland’s remotest
islands. Through workshops with
author Ron Butlin, students across
Scotland will develop unique texts
exploring their sense of island
life and sense of place, which
will be woven into the piece and
performed, creating a unique
performance at every stage of the
tour.
The premiere performance will
take place at The Queen’s Hall on
3 March 2019 at 3.00pm. Tickets
available from the venue,
BYOB (bring your own baby/
bump)
Tour of Scottish National Portrait
Gallery – 4 March, 10:15am,
11:00am, 11:30am – admission free
4 March 2019 Liz Davidson
will deliver a lecture on the
restoration of Glasgow School of
Art building following the second
fire there. The AHSS lecture will
take place at St Andrew's and St
George's West Church, 13 George
Street at 6.30pm.
5 March 2019 Open Studio:
Make an Impression – Scottish
National Portrait Gallery
Let the Kids go wild at this
month’s messy art making
mornings in the Farmer Studio
for children one to three. Taking
along a change of clothes is
highly advised.
Lecture/Talk at Scottish National
Portrait Gallery - International
Women’s Day
-: Gerda Stevenson 5 March, 12:45-
1:30pm – admission free
Swan Lake at Edinburgh
Playhouse on 8 - 9 March
Tickets cost £13-£38.90 book
online at: https://www.atgtickets.
com/ or phone: 08448713014
The Scottish Motorcycle Show
is on at the Royal Highland
Centre on 9 March 2019.
The event will be jam-packed
with lots of different shows and
demonstrations. Timetables and
schedules for the Scottish Stunt
Freestyle section of the event is
already looking busy for both days
so it is sure to keep
you entertained.
Chamber Music Concert,
3.00pm, Sunday 10th March
2019 Stockbridge Church, 7b Saxe
Coburg Street, EH5 3BN
The Drawing Room
Adult course at the Scottish
National Gallery of Modern
Art – 14 March, 5:30-6:45pm –
admission free “The Drawing
Room examines the range of
possibilities within contemporary
drawing practice and explores
how mark-making can also be
conceived as sculpture, installation,
video, performance, writing,
sound, textiles and animation.
All materials are supplied and no
experience necessary.”
Springtime Sensory Storytelling
disabled access day 2019 at the
Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art (modern two) on
Saturday 16 March, 2pm & 3pm –
admission free places are limited,
booking essential. To book phone:
0131 624 6428
Shakin’ Stevens at The Queen’s
Hall
16 March 2019 7.30pm The
eighties icon will be making a
stop at The Queen's Hall on his
biggest ever UK tour. The Welsh
singer will be treating audiences
his old hits including ‘This Ole
House’ and ‘Green Door’ as well
as a few surprises. With 33 hit
singles and four UK top hits to
his repertoire the performer has
plenty older material to delight
fans with. Additionally, he will be
treating fans to new tracks from
‘Echoes From Our Time’.
The Georgian Concert Society
16 March 2019, 7.30pm - St
Andrew’s & St George’s West
Church Theatre of the Ayre -
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor; Matthew
Brook, bass; Elizabeth Kenny,
lutes and Alison McGillivray,
viola da gamba and lyra viol
A quiet revolution: English vocal
music during the interregnum
Tickets £20 (£18) Students £5.00
Tickets - The Queen’s Hall.
2019 Cordis Prize for Tapestry
Exhibition
Inverleith House Gallery, Royal
Botanic Gardens
16 March to 27 May, 2019
FREE Admission
www.thetapestryprize.org
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
directed and played by Pekka
Kuusisto 21 March 2019 at The
Queen’s Hall
Dubbed ‘the David Bowie of the
fiddle’, Finnish violinist Pekka
Kuuisisto will be teaming up with
the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
taking audiences on a journey
through the music of the past
four centuries.
St Columba’s Hospice Ladies
Lunch
With an astrology theme at The
Hub in Edinburgh on Friday 22
March 12pm-5pm in support of St
Columba’s Hospice - £60 (Table of
ten £600) phone 0131 551 1381
Al Murray at The Stand
Edinburgh on 27 March 2019 –
tickets £15
The Bowie Experience
at the Usher Hall 29 March –
tickets £27.50
Scots Music Group Ceilidh
at St Brides Centre in Edinburgh
– Matthew MacLennan Ceilidh
Band Saturday 30 March from
7.30pm-11.30pm –
tickets £9/£7 concession
An Evening of Opera Classics
31 March 2019 7.30pm at
The Grand Synagogue on
Salisbury Road. Option to book
a pre-concert supper Bookings -
The Queen’s Hall.
The Stand t 0131 558 7272
Queen’s Hall Box Office -
t 0131-668 2019
Usher Hall Box Office -
t 0131 228 1155