{"id":17268,"date":"2019-04-15T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17268"},"modified":"2019-04-15T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T08:12:51","slug":"award-winning-performer-returns-to-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/04\/award-winning-performer-returns-to-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning performer returns to the MAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Renowned writer, director, actor and musician, Cora Bissett returns to the MAC on 1-5 May for her latest show, What Girls Are Made Of.<\/em><\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Following\nan award-winning, sold out premiere at Traverse\nFestival 2018, What Girls Are Made Of<\/em> comes to the MAC as part of\na UK and worldwide tour, before heading to Brazil and the USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written\nand performed by Cora Bissett<\/strong>, co-creator and director of the acclaimed Glasgow\nGirls<\/em>, which visited the MAC in 2017, What Girls Are Made Of <\/em> takes audiences back to 1992 to tell the\nautobiographical story of Cora\u2019s rollercoaster journey from Fife schoolgirl to\nindie singer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed\nby former Traverse Artistic Director, Orla O\u2019Loughlin<\/strong>, the show celebrates the euphoric highs (touring\nwith Radiohead, partying with Blur) and epic lows (untrustworthy managers,\n\u00a340,000 debt) of Bisset\u2019s young life, poignantly interspersed with the personal\nlosses and gains of her adult life.  Now\na mother herself, Bissett draws from her own teenage diaries to question what\nwisdom we should pass on to the next generation, and which mistakes we should\nlet them make for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performed\nwith a live backing band and packed full of 90s indie tunes\nfrom Nirvana, Blur, Sultans of Ping, Radiohead and Throwing\nMuses, What Girls Are Made Of<\/em>  promises to be a fun night out,  bringing audiences on a trip down memory lane\nand giving them an insight into what life in the music industry is really like.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking about\nthe show, Cora Bisset<\/strong> said: \u2018I never imagined that last year\nwhen I started wading through the old diaries and piecing together this story\ninto a play, that we would end up this year with a tour traversing Scotland and\nNorthern Ireland and ending up in Brazil and the USA! I’m really excited to\ntake the show on the road and particularly back to my old home turf in Fife,\nwhere I was born and went to school. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play starts\nin Glenrothes and charts my teenage self, looking for the big adventure that\nlife might hold. I was overwhelmed by the response we got in Edinburgh last\nyear, where it seemed to resonate with everyone from teenage girls, to\nmiddle-aged men and women with teenage kids, and to older people who felt that\nteenage self rekindled. It seemed to be everyone’s story.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It tickles me\nthat a story about an indie kid from Fife somehow clicked with theatre\nprogrammers in Sao Paulo and South Carolina, who want to share it with their\naudiences.  Maybe that’s because,\nalthough it speaks in broad Fife-isms, it also speaks in universalities. It’s\nabout growing up, and not wanting to be anyone’s puppet. It’s about making big\nleaps of faith and failing monumentally. It’s about searching in the dark for\nyears for what the hell you’re meant to be doing. It’s about losing loves,\nlosing faith, losing parents, losing weight, hitting the depths and working out\nhow you build yourself back up again. It’s about being a girl, bringing up a\ngirl, trying to be a woman, and trying to work out how to pass something on\nthat is actually useful. It’s about celebrating imperfection, not\nhomogenisation. It’s human, it’s truthful, it’s a total ‘riddy’, but it’s life,\nand it seems to be a bit about us all. Maybe that’s why we are touring from\nFife to far, far away. I can’t wait to see how audiences take to the show in\ndifferent corners of the world.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets for What Girls Are Made Of at the MAC are on sale\nnow at themaclive.com or call the box office on 028 90235053. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Renowned writer, director, actor and musician, Cora Bissett returns to the MAC on 1-5 May for her latest show, What Girls Are Made Of. Following an award-winning, sold out premiere at Traverse Festival 2018, What Girls Are Made Of comes to the MAC as part of a UK and worldwide tour, before heading to Brazil … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17271,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17268\/revisions\/17271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}