Regal Community Theater in Bathgate. - Maureen Docherty-Nagle

Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate

Susan Boyle and Maureen Docherty-Nagle

Susan is a Patron of Regal Community Theater in Bathgate. 
 

I am proud to say I visited the lovely theater and received a 

very friendly greeting from Maureen and others.

Below is my writing of my time at the Regal.  The log of my Scotland Trip is on the main page of the SusanBoyle-graysea blog.   Wonderful time, wonderful people in Scotland. 

 -  Royalty at the Regal
Well, we arrived 20 minutes later at the Regal Theatre http://www.facebook.com/bathgateregaltheatre and headed to a pub for supper before going in.  The small theatre was full of people, white hair, just like at home.  And of course, I felt right at home.  We were up front next to a senior group from a nearby town.  I couldn't understand where they were from when they told me (it sounded like Felfik???)  but I did talk to the man next to me, who told me he was John Duffy.  He said his brother played the music for Susan at church. He knew the entire family and he was proud to tell me that they know him.  During intermission  Diane brought a lady over to meet me.  Her name is Maureen Docherty-Nagle from the SusanBoyleFanInternational Site.  Diane said Maureen recognized the red scarf she was wearing and ask if she was a fan and that is how we all met.  Maureen took a lot of pictures and will post them on her Susan site.  She is planning on being in Glasgow at the show.  Hopefully we will meet up again.

Why I call this part "Royalty" at the Regal, is because after the intermission, the leader of the Livingston Fiddlers asked if there was a Grace from Massachusetts in the house - oh yes, up goes my hand -  whooohooo,  and then someone from another state was mentioned and I did not get her name, she was way in the back somewhere.  Also, from Texas, which was Diane.  WOW!!!!  I was surprised about us being announced to the audience.    What fun!.  The show was great. Thirty fiddlers in the band, plus piano, bass and accordion.  Very nice.

Check out Maureen's post about Scott Kyle

Maureen Docherty-Nagle shared West Lothian Council's photo.

November 19 at 8:02am ·

West Lothian Council

The manager at the Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate, has been taking a bit of time off from his day job recently.

But Scott Kyle had good reason.

For he landed one of the leading roles in a major new film, set to hit cinema screens from Friday 28 November.

Scott spent six weeks in Jordan filming for 'Kajaki', which tells the true story of the Kajaki minefield incident in 2006, when Cpl. Mark Wright of 3 Para was killed while organising a helicopter rescue in a desperate mission to rescue a colleague who had been injured by a landmine.

In the film, Scott plays paratrooper Stuart Pearson, one of the 12 soldiers involved in the rescue mission, which, as well as the death of Cpl. Wright, led to three of the men losing limbs and another four receiving serious injuries. As a result of the bravery involved in the rescue mission, four of the soldiers involved earned medals from the Queen.

Scott was so moved by the incident that he recently carried out a fundraising parachute jump in aid of the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association. The jump was eight years to the day after the minefield incident.

"when you understand what these men and women went through in Afghanistan on our behalf, you realise that jumping out of a plane above Salisbury Plain is the very least you can do to support them on their road to recovery," said Scott, who also starred in the film 'The Angels' Share'.

Scott, on the left of the picture, is shown with the film's producer Gareth Unwin, best known for his production of the Academy Award-winning film The King's Speech.

Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate