By Anita Vettesse

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 […]

By Alma Cullen

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 […]

By Andy McGregor

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 […]

By Douglas Maxwell

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 […]

By Molière | Adapted by Liz Lochhead

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, […]

By A Play, A Pie and A Pint

Mon, 31 December, 2018 — Sun, 10 February, 2019

We’ll be back in early January with some very exciting news about our upcoming Spring/Summer season which opens on Feb 11th!

By Morag Fullarton

Mon, 26 November, 2018 — Sat, 29 December, 2018

Please note ALL shows have now SOLD OUT (including the two additional performances on Monday 10th and Monday 17th December at 3pm) Cast: Dave Anderson, Maureen Carr, Hannah Howie & John Kielty “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some are still poisoning door handles…” Empress Evilyin has promised that the people of Escozia […]

By Lynn Ferguson

Mon, 19 November, 2018 — Sat, 24 November, 2018

Cast: Julie Coombe, Libby McArthur & Mark McDonnell Sisters, Sandy and Rose claim to be identical in almost every way: Runaway winners of Butlin’s talent competition 1959, they’ve been tartan-clad singing sensation, “The Heather Belles” ever since. For the last 20 years they’ve entertained exhaustively on Mediterranean cruise-ships. So, when they unexpectedly find themselves free […]

By Stuart Hepburn

Mon, 12 November, 2018 — Sat, 17 November, 2018

Cast: Ron Donachie, Kevin Lennon & Ashley Smith On the 6th of May, 1909, Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant, was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of an 83-year-old Glasgow woman, Marion Gilchrist. Slater’s trial and its astonishing aftermath constitute one of the most shameful episodes in the history of Scottish Justice. Through police […]

By The DM Collective

Mon, 05 November, 2018 — Sat, 10 November, 2018

Cast: Dave Anderson, Elizabeth Caproni, Cat Grozier & Ross Mann 57 channels and nothin’ on,” as Bruce Springsteen once sang. There’s no escaping the media, but in an era of ‘Fake News’, tabloid sensationalism and mass distraction how do often do we stop and question what we’re being told? Who gets to decide what’s news and […]

By Donald Mcleary

Mon, 29 October, 2018 — Sat, 03 November, 2018

Cast: Stephen Clyde, Shonagh Price & Paul Thomas-Clark Spiky, intellectual Prime Minister Ellis Gregory and his wife Sam are trapped in a safe room during a security alert, and so is friendly cleaner Colin and his trusty vacuum. When a number of explosions rock the outside of the shelter, the physically imposing Colin realises that a […]

By Louise Welsh

Mon, 22 October, 2018 — Sat, 27 October, 2018

Cast: Grant O’Rourke, Meghan Tyler and Alasdair Hankinson It is the age of King Keich! Game show host King Keich rises to the highest position in the land bringing chaos, mayhem & mass murder in his wake. Inspired by Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, with an added dose of Punch and Judy, King Keich is an absurdist romp about the pursuit of […]

By David Gerow

Mon, 15 October, 2018 — Sat, 20 October, 2018

Cast: Helen MacKay, Steven McNicoll & Nicola Roy When they receive a tip-off that one of their employees may be a sex offender who has escaped justice, the managers of an Edinburgh warehouse find themselves at odds over what should be done – with catastrophic results. A Change in Management is an edgy comedy exploring […]

By Morag Fullarton

Mon, 08 October, 2018 — Sat, 13 October, 2018

Cast: Helen McAlpine, Matthew Tomlinson & Matthew Joseph-Campbell  Before the war Bob was a budding musician, playing along to silent movies in the Picture Houses of Glasgow, a job he loved. December 1918, he returns from France, blinded, scarred and stuck in a small town with no job prospects. As the action moves between the […]