Oscar Winners Theatre, Broadcasts and Live Music at Heart of Hawick -

Part of Hawick Reivers Festival. In the year 1565, the Liddesdale valley in the Scottish Borders was the scene of a violent feud between the powerful families of Scott and Elliot. Murder and robbery was widespread, often involving the innocent, such as Hob Elliot and his family. One night, while his wife, daughter and sister-in-law are alone, two men force their way into Hob Elliot's house. They are Scotts, intent on taking Hob's life in revenge for the murder of a Scott. As the tension mounts while they await the imminent return of the unsuspecting Hob, his wife makes a determined bid to foil the killers. The play is an unromantic and realistic depiction of the darkest side of 16th-century border life, and was the winner of the 1978 S.C.D.A. Playwriting Competition. Tickets are £5. Call 01450 360688 to book.

The popular jazz trio return to Heart of Hawick for a third time for Hawick Music Club's March Concert. Love jazz? - let me introduce you to three of its best exponents! John Burgess, on clarinet and saxophones, he delivers a melodic conversation that makes time stand still. He shared studio sessions with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra. Ross Milligan on guitar and banjo is a well known, diverse performer and composer of intricate and academic brilliance. He has written music for films including “Get Happy”. Andrew Sharkey, on string bass has performed in the west end hit musical “The Rat Pack”. He accompanies his fellow musicians with a familiarity that compliments each of their performances. This is a great opportunity to see them on stage and enjoy hot rags, blues and stomps from the golden age of jazz!

A Showcase of Gaelic Music and Song. Presenting: Marie Fielding: Acclaimed Fiddle and Performance Tutor/Lecturer at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Duncan Black: Champion Accordionist and winner of the Perth Accordion Club Challenge Trophy in 2018. Scottish Accordion Champion at Junior and Senior Levels. Son of the legendary Bill Black and brother of Robert Black all Champions in their own right. Gillebride MacMillan: Outstanding Medieval Gaelic Singer and Poet appearing in the TV series Outlander as the Bard Gwyllyn. Angus ‘Monty’ Montgomery: Over the years has won medals for Gaelic and Scottish singing. Plays Accordion as well as performing as a Master of Ceremonies. Turas: A very popular group of Gaelic Singers who are in various stages of learning Gaelic and are expertly guided by their conductor Mary Low. Tickets are £10. Call 01450 360688 to book.

The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein programme from choreographers Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon. Leonard Bernstein was one of the first classical composers in America to achieve both popular and critical acclaim. He was eclectic in his sources – drawing on jazz and modernism, the traditions of Jewish music and the Broadway musical – and many of Bernstein’s scores are remarkably well suited to dance. He was particularly associated with Jerome Robbins, their credits together including Fancy Free and West Side Story. To celebrate the centenary year of the composer’s birth, The Royal Ballet has united all three of its associate choreographers to celebrate the dynamic range and danceability of Bernstein’s music. The programme includes two world premieres by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, marking each artist’s first foray into Bernstein. At the heart of the programme is the first revival of Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety, created in 2014 to Bernstein’s soul-searching Second Symphony. Both symphony and ballet are inspired by W.H. Auden’s masterful modernist poem, itself written in response to the atmosphere of disillusionment and uncertainty that followed the end of World War II. CHOREOGRAPHY WAYNE MCGREGOR, LIAM SCARLETT, CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON MUSIC LEONARD BERNSTEIN APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME: 3 HOURS, INCLUDING TWO INTERVALS Tickets are £16 [£14]. To book call 01450 360688.

★★★★ "Michelle Fairley gives a rivetingly intelligent performance" - The Sunday Times ★★★★ "A pulse-quickening political tragedy" - Evening Standard ★★★★ "Visceral and politically urgent" - The Guardian ★★★★ "Furiously exciting" - Time Out ★★★★ "Electrifying" - Financial Times Nicholas Hynter's brand new production, starring Ben Wishaw and David Morrissey, Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake. Tickets are £15 [£13]. Call 01450 360688 to book.

The lights will be left on and seating is flexible so you and your little one can relax and enjoy this Disney classic! Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. Tickets are £5 [under 2s go free]. Call 01450 360688 to book.

Bizet's classic French Opera stars Anna Goryachova in Barrie Kosky's intense production. Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form – numbers such as the 'Habanera' and the 'Toreador Song' have permeated the popular consciousness as little else has. The opera’s heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success his Carmen would achieve: the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone. Tickets are £16 [£14]. Call 01450 360688 to book.

Book now for this year's big Oscar winners! 🍿🏆🎥🎬🎞️ Winner of 4 Oscars including best director and best picture, we'll be showing 'The Shape of Water' on 30 March 7pm and another date in April (TBC). 'Call me by your Name' winner of best adapted screenplay will be screened on Friday 9 March 7pm. You can also catch 'Coco' winner of best animated feature and best original song on Saturday 10 March 3pm and Sunday 11 March 2.30pm. Scooping the Oscar for costume design, see 'Phantom Thread' on Friday 16 and Tuesday 20 March 7pm. Stay tuned for winner of best foreign language film, 'A Fantastic Woman', coming this April. Call 01450 360688 to book. See our website for full details https://goo.gl/CHx93R

Heart of Hawick cafe bar is open as normal today Monday 5 March. We are still awaiting some deliveries so we will be serving the normal menu, subject to availability. String theory is back with some more fantastic free live music from 7.30pm tonight!