Alves-based theatre company Right Lines Productions launches Crowdfunder to bring 'Boob Cruise' play to the stage
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AN ALVES-BASED theatre company has launched a Crowdfunder campaign to bring a new play to the stage.
Right Lines Productions' comedy is based on the real-life experience of a group of Scottish islander women who have to charter a boat to attend mobile breast screening on the mainland – a trip they call the "Boob Cruise".
Boob Cruise the play charts the experience of six feisty island characters who set sail for screening, making a day of it with "craic and camaraderie, coffee and cake", their worries hidden by fun and banter.
The script-writers say the play is about the journey all women aged 50 to 70 make from their breast screening invitation to getting their results.
The team now hopes to raise £2500 through a Crowdfunder to screen a rehearsed reading of their draft Boob Cruise script, and to invite feedback from audience and breast cancer screening health professionals.
Euan Martin, from Right Lines, said: "The origins of this project date back a few years ago when we rehearsed and opened our award-winning climate change comedy, Rapid Departure, on the Isle of Eigg.
"Eigg resident and arts administrator, Lucy Conway, suggested an idea for a new play based on the experience of local Eigg women who have to charter a boat to attend the mobile breast screening clinic in Mallaig on the mainland. The women call the trip 'The Boob Cruise'.
"My colleague, Dave Smith, and I thought this would make a great issue-based comedy – a theatrical style Right Lines Productions has developed to great effect over the years.
"Lucy secured a small grant from National Theatre of Scotland to develop the idea and Right Lines also received support from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland to travel to Eigg to research the project and write a first draft of the script."
Dave added: "It was the perfect context to delve into personal stories and characters, and openly discuss breast cancer screening from a variety of viewpoints."
Producer Lucy, who joined her first Boob Cruise in 2014, said the basis of the play had gradually moved from sharing the overriding public health message to more complex individual stories and choices.
Right Lines hopes to take its play to village halls and theatres around Scotland next year.
Click here for the Crowdfunder page.
