Written by Kenny Burnham
Dance The Colour Blue
A meditation on the silent grief we carry for the people we once were. During a shift at The Everlasting Arms, Nicky meets pub regular Mikey and is reminded of a life beyond the daubed walls of her lonely flat. As their acquaintance grows, he shares a possession of value with her which turns out to be a quest for home. Slowly, she succumbs to the routine of the regulars, their camaraderie, their pranks; grateful of their existence. Before long, Nicky realises she too is on a quest for home - a place that has hitherto never existed.
Performed at The Old Gym Theatre@ACS between 27th June and 1st July.
Cast
Nicky - Habiba Saleh
Mikey - Rory Grant
Liz - Nicola Docherty
Suzy - Dani Heron
Pete - Kareem Nasif
Don - Billy Mack
Director: Olivia Millar-Ross
Movement Director: Sasha Harrington
Habiba Saleh
Habiba Saleh was born in Cairo, Egypt. From a young age she had an innate passion for performance and went on to develop her talents at the American University in Cairo where she graduated with a minor in Theatre Arts. Her theatre work includes Exodus (2022) with the National Theatre of Scotland, Magical Plastic Chicken (2018) produced by Golden Trailer Collective. She has also performed in the play Zig Zig (2016) produced by SHISH VZW.
Rory Grant
Rory is a Scots-Irish actor & writer from Glasgow. Since graduating from ACS in 2017, he has appeared in stage & screen productions across the UK, including multi-award winning short & feature films. Most recently, Rory played 'young Glen' in Shelley Middler's "The Collie's Shed" at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, with the production receiving critical acclaim after a sold-out run.
He is currently undertaking an MA Acting degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is thrilled to be bringing Mikey to life in this beautiful and moving new play alongside a stellar cast and team.
Nicola Docherty
Nicola is a Glasgow based Actor/Writer/ Director who strives to bring Body positivity, Authentic LGBTQIA+ representation and Realistic Female perspectives combined with her feisty & funny Scottish nature to the stage, screen and beyond. Her most recent venture was triple threating herself by Writing/Directing and Acting in her original sketch - Death Drop Demon, for BBC Short Stuff. Nicola enjoyed performing across Spain, Italy and the UK on different theatre tours before returning to Scotland in 2020 where she turned her focus mainly to writing and acting for screen and spent time creating her award winning short film Authentic. She found herself on the stage again in 2021 and loved getting to work with Framework Theatre on their new writing project HOME, where she had the opportunity to perform in 3 of the 4 shows at the Scottish Story Telling Centre. Nothing quite beats being on home turf though and Nic is very excited to be working on Dance the Colour Blue with some truly incredible people
Dani Heron
Recent theatre performances include Sugar Coat (Southwark Playhouse), The Golden Rage (Play, Pie and a Pint); Underwood Lane (Tron Theatre); Ten Things To Do Before You Die; My Name is Sarah and... (Play, Pie and a Pint); Sugar Coat (Vault Festival, London); Peter Gynt (National Theatre/Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Rebus: Long Shadows (Birmingham Rep, National tour); Immaculate Correction (King’s Head Theatre, London); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Citizens Theatre Glasgow/Home Manchester); 306: Day (National Theatre of Scotland); Jumpy (The Lyceum Edinburgh); The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland); The Venetian Twins (The Lyceum Edinburgh); A Perfect Stroke (Play, Pie and a Pint); Chariots of Fire (West End).
Television includes Crime (Britbox); Murder Island (Channel 4); Casualty (BBC); Armchair Detectives (BBC). Film includes Skin Deep; I Am Me; Rat Trap
Billy Mack
Billy is delighted to be part of the team on this wonderful production Dance the Colour Blue. It has always been one of his ambitions to sit at the end of the bar and drink beer for the sake of art! He is dedicating as much time as possible to character research.
Kareem Nasif
Kareem has the good fortune of graduating from Acting Coach Scotland in 2020 and is delighted to return as a credited performer. Kareem performed in The Girl on the Train: Barn theatre; Our Boy: Fringe; commercials for RBS and Sky; and currently a feature with Shepka Productions.
Olivia Millar-Ross
Olivia Millar-Ross (she/her) is a director and actor based in London and Glasgow. Credits include Silence (Associate Director, Tara Theatre), Sugar Coat (Assistant Director, Southwark Playhouse) and Exodus (Assistant Director, National Theatre of Scotland). For more information visit www.oliviamross.com
Sasha Harrington
Sasha is a Movement Director and teacher working between London and Glasgow. She has recently graduated from Central school of Speech and Drama’s MA: Movement Direction course. She has a long history of working with community groups and young people on theatre projects and is co-founder of charity and theatre company Compass Collective. She currently teaches at Edinburgh Napier University on the Acting for Stage and Screen course and has movement directed/ co-directed at theatres and institutes such as; Rose Bruford, RCS, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Southwark Playhouse and the Arcola Theatre , and festivals including, Migration Matters Festival, Glastonbury and Tate Lates. She is currently associate movement director on Raw Material’s The Stamping Ground, having been the assistant last year.