Experiencing Victorian times
Timemasters
are currently contracted for education work with the National Trust
for Scotland at Brodie Castle in the Highlands of Scotland. Brodie
has an illustrious 19th century history which is being used to good
effect to bring the house alive for the benefit of local schools.
Recreating characters from the castle's history Timemasters is able
to draw on a wide variety of Victorian characters including the
Laird, his wife, butler and governess.
Our actors are always available for corporate events where your meeting is at a property that would benefit from some period flavour or you would just simply like an evening with a difference. All our employees are also well used to film and TV extra work and can be available for production work with their own costumes and props.
The Hugh Miller Play
A SHORT PLAY in period costume celebrating the achievements of the renowned Cromarty-born geologist Hugh Miller was performed at his new museum this summer. The play, entitled "A Meeting with Monsieur Agassiz", features Hugh and his wife Lydia playing host to a world-famed Swiss scientist, M. Louis Agassiz, at their home, Miller House, in Church Street, Cromarty.
Agassiz tells Hugh he will name his "winged fish" fossil discovery
after him. His companion is another fossil-hunter and "great beauty",
Lady Eliza Maria Gordon Cumming, of Altyre House, Morayshire.
Performing the half-hour play in the parlour of Miller House was Timemasters, an Inverness-based troupe of professionally trained actors consisting of Victoria Lochore as Lydia Miller, Shaun Hastings as Hugh Miller, Angela Lynch as Lady Eliza Maria Gordon Cumming, and Duncan Cook, as Louis Agassiz..
Miller House opened as a museum in April 2004, and has since won a VisitScotland 5-star award.
The National Trust for Scotland's museum curator, Martin Gostwick, who wrote the script, said: "This was our first venture into "living history" educational theatre."
He added: "The early geologists were all real characters, and the exchanges between the Millers, Agassiz, and Lady Eliza are the best of craic. I think it's going to be a lot of fun."
Welcome to Timemasters
"Upon that machine,' said the Time Traveller, holding the lamp aloft, `I intend to explore time. Is that plain? I was never more serious in my life. "
A
line from 'The Time Machine' by H.G. Wells. A book that followed
the story of the pursuit of one man to travel through time.
Here
at Timemasters we cannot take you through time in a time machine
but we can reproduce for you the feelings and atmosphere of various
periods in history and famous characters.
We will let you experience what it was like to be in the presence
of a Victorian gentlemen and his household or to be present in the
middle of a bloody battle trying to save the lives of men injured
fighting for a cause.
Our
team of experienced actors and actresses will take you back to those
times and live up to our motto of..................
'BRINGING
THE PAST TO LIFE FOR YOU'
Taking you to the 18th Century
Duncan
Cook, Timemasters manager, has had 8 years experience in providing
the National Trust for Scotland's Living History presentation at
Culloden Moor, probably the most famous battlefield in Britain.
This has been hands-on experience recreating the role of an 18th
century military surgeon from scratch, researching the background
to the character and medical practices of the 18th century.
The success of the presentation speaks for itself as it has now
become an integral part of the site's interpretation.
Timemasters can provide a full wardrobe of male and female costumes
from the period and recreate the drama of the Jacobite risings in
Scotland or the Empire building conquest of the Americas in the
style of The Last of the Mohicans. Meet the real creators of history,
George Washington, Captain James Cook and many more!
Making History lessons fun!!!!!
We are also taking our education programme into the local schools offering an encounter with a famous Victorian celebrity such as Charles Dickens or David Livingstone. The ladies are not forgotten as we hope to show students how Elizabeth Fry reformed our prison system and Emily Pankhurst struggled to get women the Vote.
Why not give us a call and let us know who you would most like your
class to meet. Painstaking research and costume accuracy will ensure
it will be an encounter you'll not forget!
You can contact us as below:-
Timemasters
Specialised tours and living history
64 Glenurquhart Road,
Inverness,
Scotland,
UK
or email us at info@timemasters.co.uk
or telephone 07733 347448
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