Archived Shows

Mon, 13 May, 2019 — Sat, 18 May, 2019

Cast: Grant O’Rourke It’s 1979 and rising Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson has travelled to America to play a series of exhibition matches. When he misses his ride to the next event however, Jocky finds himself alone and on the road. All the diminutive Fifer really wants is to get back home but there’s a […]

Mon, 06 May, 2019 — Sat, 11 May, 2019

Cast: Neshla Caplan, David James Kirkwood and Anna Russell-Martin At Edinburgh Airport, a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. A woman is screened for domestic radicalisation, while her interrogators decide to perform violent and radical act of their own.  Based on a true story, Toy Plastic Chicken is a blackly comedic exploration of degradation and revolt. Presented in association with the […]

Mon, 29 April, 2019 — Sat, 04 May, 2019

Cast: Tom McGovern, Andrew John Tait and Eva Traynor The Origins of Ivor Punch is a play based on the Edinburgh International First Book Award-winning novel ‘The Letters of Ivor Punch’ by musician and author Colin MacIntyre (Mull Historical Society). Set in the present day and in the 1860’s on a remote Scottish island (based […]

Mon, 22 April, 2019 — Sat, 27 April, 2019

Winner of the People’s Choice Vote Cast: Kevin Lennon, Gavin Mitchell and Clare Waugh *Please note all advance tickets have sold out – limited tickets will be available on the door each day. This lovingly disrespectful homage to one of the classic films of all time was first performed at Òran Mór in 2010 and has […]

Mon, 15 April, 2019 — Sat, 20 April, 2019

Cast: Janet Coulson, James McAnerney and John Michie Ninety years after his own demise, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s internationally acclaimed masterpiece lies in ruins. For the second time in four years a fire has torn through Glasgow’s most venerable building, tearing just-healed scars wide apart once more. Should we save The Mack or just let it […]

Mon, 08 April, 2019 — Sat, 13 April, 2019

Cast: Selina Boyack, Keith Fleming & Nick Ikunda George & Joy Adamson, like many others before and since, loved the animal kingdom as much, probably more, than their fellow humans. They camped for years – decades – in areas where humans were few, but dangerous wildlife teemed around them. With no mobiles, or skype, to relieve […]

Mon, 01 April, 2019 — Sat, 06 April, 2019

Cast: Joyce Falconer, David McGowan & Karen Ramsay “So every dream that I’ve dreamed has come true a hundred times…” (Elvis) Joan is an amateur Elvis impersonator with big dreams. And she’s got the outfit. With the regional heat of Ultimate Elvis coming soon, Joan knows there’s work to do. But Joan has The King […]

Mon, 25 March, 2019 — Sat, 30 March, 2019

Cast: Dave Anderson, Maureen Carr & Brian James O’Sullivan The “Comedian’s Comedian” Chic Murray passed away in Edinburgh on the night of the 29th of January, 1985. In a career that had taken him from an engineer’s apprenticeship in Kincaid’s Shipyard, Greenock, to the top of the bill at The London Palladium, Chic was a […]

Mon, 18 March, 2019 — Sat, 23 March, 2019

Cast: Ronan Doyle, Janette Foggo & Billy Mack The bitter winter of 1836 brings death, disease and destruction to the British whaling fleet locked into the Arctic ice. Captain Reid and Peter are sole survivors of the tragic Viewforth. They recuperate in Mrs Humphrey’s house, a temporary hospital in Stromness, Orkney. In this darkly comic […]

Mon, 11 March, 2019 — Sat, 16 March, 2019

Cast: Gavin Jon Wright & Anita Vettesse Lisa is forty, and edging towards a midlife crisis. The world, she thinks, is judging her childless state. In a desperate bid to conform, she lures her brother-in-law, Stan, to a dingy hotel room in the middle of a ring road to carry out a plan. As the […]

Mon, 04 March, 2019 — Sat, 09 March, 2019

Cast: Wendy Seager Barbara once willingly gave up her dead-end job to nurture the careers of husband Andy, now a police Superintendent, and son Gavin, a newly qualified surgeon. Homemaking is really her thing, with social events, art classes and church-based volunteering on the side. Perfection. Until, horribly, everything crashes. ★★★★ The Herald Alma Cullen […]

Mon, 25 February, 2019 — Sat, 02 March, 2019

Cast: Darren Brownlie, Richard Conlon & Dawn Sievewright When David MacGonigle’s wife dies, his perfect middle-class life collapses around him. But a freak occurrence, involving mouldy chips and Iron Brew, leads to his discovery of a new designer drug, Spuds. Soon he has built the ultimate criminal empire, but at what cost? A new musical comedy about […]

Mon, 18 February, 2019 — Sat, 23 February, 2019

Cast: Anne Kidd & Craig McLean Annabelle strikes up an unlikely relationship with her dead husband’s potty-mouthed employee, Jim. She begins to enter into Jim’s un-finishing school, liberating her own voice through vulgarity, Annabelle gets herself heard. Presented in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts. Douglas Maxwell has been one of Scotland’s top playwrights since his […]

Mon, 11 February, 2019 — Sat, 16 February, 2019

Cast: Andy Clark, Grant O’Rourke, Gabriel Quigley and Nicola Roy Liz Lochhead’s wonderful Scots translation and adaptation of Tartuffe, Moliere’s most famous comedy. It was written and first performed in 1664 at the fetes held at Versailles and was almost immediately censored by King Louis XIV. The story of an attempt, by an irreclaimable hypocrite, […]