John D. Burns brings Bothy Tales to Abertarff House on Friday 2 October, 6pm to 7pm.

Burns has spent forty years in the Highland hills — Inverness-based author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, former Cairngorm Mountain Rescue, one-man shows that have already done the Edinburgh Fringe and the mountain-festival circuit. This is the stage version: bothy monsters, an avalanche that nearly finished him, a lion, and the kind of stories that only get told when the stove is going and nobody is going anywhere till morning.

Directed with Gerry Flanagan of Shifting Sands. Funny, light on its feet, stuffed with hill characters. He calls it a night beside a bothy fire — just a bigger bothy, and more folk than usual.

Early Friday evening in one of the city’s oldest houses. Come in off the street. Leave with wet boots in your head.

John D. Burns - Bothy Tales
Abertarff House, Inverness