We are excited to be bringing the first performance of Three of a Kind in its new incarnation to The Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival!
Three of a Kind was created over two decades ago alongside Tessa Ransford OBE, a fine much published poet/writer whose crowning achievement was the creation of The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Together we performed to sell out audiences for almost a decade on The Edinburgh Book Fringe. Sadly Tessa died in 2015 and we are honoured to be joined by Gerda Stevenson for Three of a Kind reborn!
Pauline Prior Pitt’s poems, alternately funny and poignant are deeply rooted in the life of the Hebridean island she inhabits and beautifully reflect the preoccupations of a woman as she grows older. Her work has appeared on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Pick of the Week,With Great Pleasure, and Poetry Please; and on Channel 4 Television. Her one woman shows attract sell out audiences in Festivals. She is the author of five poetry collections and was the winner of the 2006 Callum Macdonald Award for North Uist Sea
International traveller Chrys Salt has performed UK wide, in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Finland, India, Australia and Africa. Most recently she was The International Poet at The Tasmanian Poetry Festival followed by an extensive tour up the East Coast of Australia. She was guest of honour at The Dialogia Festival in Finland and one of seven International Poets featured at The Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kenya. Awards (various) include an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First, a National Media Award and an MBE in the late Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Gerda Stevenson is an award-winning writer/actor/director/singer-songwriter. She has presented her poetry and prose throughout the UK, across Europe and the USA. Her first two poetry collections, If This Were Real, and Quines: Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland, have also been published in Rome in Italian translations. Other publications include a book of short stories, Letting Go: a Timeline of Tales, and a third poetry collection, Tomorrow’s Feast. The founder of Scotland’s leading women’s theatre company STELLAR QUINES, she has directed and appeared in many theatre productions and films, winning a BAFTA for her performance in Margaret Tait’s feature film Blue Black Permanent.