Mairi Campbell: Living Stone

Theatre (music, storytelling)

  • Accessibility:
    Audio enhancement system
    Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
    Audio Described
    May not apply to all performances. You'll find more information about accessibile performances and how to book tickets in the accessibility tab below.
  • Babes in arms policy: Babies do not require a ticket
  • Policy applies to: Children under 18 months

Description

Mairi Campbell encounters a 400 million-year-old stone, fashioned into a family millstone found on the island of Lismore. The stone has become her talisman, revealing layers of mystery and resonance. Song, sound and word combine in an odyssey that unifies lineage, land and pulse. Join Mairi for a feast of image, music and word that brings the living stone to life! Music co-devised with Dave Gray, directed and co-created by Kath Burlinson. Follow-up to Pulse and Auld Lang Syne. 'Incredible storyteller… voice is like no other' (EdinburghGuide.com).

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General venue access

  • Audio enhancement system
    Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
    Audio Described
  • Accessible entry: There is level access into the Centre from the John Knox House entrance. If entering using the main SSC entrance there are 9 steps up. Once inside there is a lift that can take customers down to the -1 floor which is the top of the raked seating. If not it is 16 steps down to the top of the raked seating.
  • Wheelchair access type: Building Lift

  • Stairs: 20+
    Number of stairs is provided as guidance and is not in addition to any wheelchair access type (lift/ramp etc) stated above.

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Audio described performances

  • Dates: 23 August
  • Type: NotSelected
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Liz 49 days ago

Amazing show - almost an out of body experience! I would thoroughly recommend.

helen morgan 51 days ago

With her beautiful voice, relaxed story telling, sense of history and place Mairi draws you in ..... don't miss her show

Adrian Palmer 52 days ago

Mairi Campbell is a beautifully natural performer confidently taking us on a deeply emotional journey with calmness, wonder and love. Inspired by her feeling for the deep past the show magically brings us right to the present with her lightly humourous look at the personalities in her Ceilidh Band. The thoughts and feelings brought up resonate into a future rooted in the past and present that is not without hope.

Russell McLarty 52 days ago

Mairi's show, Living Stone, is absolutely brilliantly put together with music, story, visual projection, drama, song and audience participation. It digs deep into history, identity and emotions with a lovely touch of humour coming through.

Iddo Oberski 52 days ago

As always, Mairi Campbell delivers a unique blend of her multiple creative channels to tell a story both ancient and modern, linked to the land and ancestors. Through her own deep personal connection with the isle of Lismore off the West Coast of Scotland she tells a beautiful story of the old millstone found on her great grandmother's croft. The millstone turns out to be the keystone for an exploration of deep streams of connection across time and space, but also threatens to suck her into darkness and chain her to the past. She delves into her own intuitive magical experience of this living stone to take us on a journey that starts out in the realm of our ancestors' deep connection with the land and gradually brings us into a rediscovery and celebration of small community building, so desperately needed for our current era. Campbell seemlessly blends story, drama, music, song, dance, movement and her stunning visual art to take us on this journey from underneath the millstone, through it's centre into the possibilities of the future. Strongly recommended.

Susan Owen 53 days ago

This show is utterly uniquely brilliant - it's a multi-sensory feast of music, visuals and action that touches the deepest part of all of us. Mairi is an astonishing and multi talented performer and storyteller. She seems to belong to long ages past, and then with a twinkle in her eye, she breaks into another mood entirely and is right here with us today - a clever weaving of past and present into a beautiful complex tapestry of art and sound.

Kay Cook 56 days ago

What a totally engaging and immersive show, which combines storytelling, song, music and projections of beautiful artwork in the most creative and original way. There really is a spellbinding quality to it that is hard to describe, I can only recommend you go along and absorb the ancient magic of the living stone for yourselves to appreciate this unique experience.

Lee Carson 59 days ago

This was really enjoyable - such a seamless style, shifting between songs and stories and pulling the audience in to the performance with ease.

Chris Grady 61 days ago

My fourth show of the day is a visit to Mairi Campbell's meditation on a 400m yr old stone from the island of Lismore. This is the third in a trilogy developed with Kath Burlinson and features some wonderful visual explorations of the stone which she began painting during lockdown in a 100 day 100 painting challenge. Alongside the show which plays Odd days at the Storytelling Centre there is an exhibition of the original artwork. Mairi is a wonderful multi talented musician who explores with us the many ways she is creating a living future for the music that springs from the deepest well of her being.

Sarah Campbell 62 days ago

A spellbinding journey, masterfuly composed and executed. So many layers from humour to shamanic depths. Mairi's command of song and the violin/viola match and amplify her storytelling prowess.
Must see!!!

Alison PATERSON 63 days ago

Mairi Campbell is in top form in her atmospheric new show : beautifully staged, a deep, moving journey delivered with a light touch and effortless audience participation.Stunning sound and visuals- and a complementary exhibition of Mairi’s extraordinary Stone drawings.

Lucy Hunter 63 days ago

This show is quite simply outstanding. I was absolutely spellbound and riveted from the get go.
It is so brilliantly devised (with the aid of the awesomely talented Kath Burlinson who directs)
that you don't notice, until you reflect back, just what a skilled production it is.
Mairi has dug deep and connects us to a depth of being so needed right now we all drink it up eagerly.
Do yourself a favour folks, don't delay.
This will be a sell out no question.


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Three Weeks (4/5 stars) 45 days ago

Mairi Campbell’s story is deeper, more grounded and more complex ... Embracing music, song, art and a sometimes wry, sometimes direct story-telling style, the show creates in the space the very calm that it seeks to understand.

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Dark Chat (5/5 stars) 46 days ago

This is a truly magical, mystical, melodic combination of words, music, art and drama.

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The Scotsman (4/5 stars) 56 days ago

An exquisite 60-minute show - full of peace and contemplation, but also of powerful history, and 21st century observation and mirth - that is illustrated throughout by Campbell’s beautiful songs; and also an accompanying exhibition, exploring her myriad responses to the stone’s shapes and colours.

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