By Matthew McVarish

Mon, 13 November, 2017 — Sat, 18 November, 2017

Cast: Tom Urie When a man is found unconscious near railway lines, Police Scotland appeal for any information that might help identify him and a kind stranger, who reads to all coma patients, volunteers to keep him company, challenging his mind and nourishing his soul while his motionless body tackles the question: ‘to wake or […]

By Chris Grady

Mon, 06 November, 2017 — Sat, 11 November, 2017

Cast: Julie Duncanson, Robin Laing and Megan Shandley Three strangers – a naive entrepreneur, a manipulative deviant and an emotionally volatile bat enthusiast – meet in the dead of night to negotiate a secret deal. A darkly comic tale about desperate lies and dodgy tactics in an unhealthy competition, where nobody wants to get what they deserve. Chris […]

By Steven Paul

Mon, 30 October, 2017 — Sat, 04 November, 2017

CAST: Vivien Reid and Dewi Rhys Williams. Produced in association with the Sherman Theatre Elizabeth Taylor was a child star who became an Oscar winning actress, while Richard Burton was the son of a Welsh miner renowned for his stage roles. Their affair caused a huge sensation, the Vatican calling it ‘erotic vagrancy.’  Their lavish […]

By Karen Dunbar

Mon, 23 October, 2017 — Sat, 28 October, 2017

Cast: Karen Dunbar, Maureen Carr and Clare Waugh Produced in association with the Traverse Theatre In a Partick there’s a quiet storm brewing. 71 year old Chrissy invites her two oldest friends, Jean and Coco, to her house as she has something to tell them. Problem is her friends can’t stand each other but they’re […]

By Anita Vettesse

Mon, 16 October, 2017 — Sat, 21 October, 2017

Cast: Angela Darcy and David McGowan Produced in association with the Traverse Theatre and Aberdeen Performing Arts Claire’s kids have fled the nest. The hole this leaves in her life brings on a crippling fear of flying. Her fear has bled into most things now. Her life is becoming smaller. Her husband Pete works on […]

By A J Taudevin

Mon, 09 October, 2017 — Sat, 14 October, 2017

Cast: Maryam Hamidi, George Drennan and Annie Grace A Play a Pie and a Pint, in association with Traverse Theatre and Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, present: Someone. Somewhere near here. Near or maybe not that near. But never that far away. Straightens their bunny ears and refuses to smile. Presses Retweet. Joins a sea of […]

By Ian Pattison

Mon, 02 October, 2017 — Sat, 07 October, 2017

Cast: Stephen Clyde Produced in association with the Traverse Theatre Ivan is a writer with a deadline but he’s blocked. Ten years ago to the day his mother passed and a phone call from his brother has him reliving the last chaotic months of her life. He reviews his own journey from deepest Govan to the […]

By Rob Drummond

Mon, 25 September, 2017 — Sat, 30 September, 2017

Cast: Kim Allan, Daniel Cameron and Nicole Cooper Produced in association with the Traverse Theatre Freya and Michael have been travelling around the world, celebrating their freedom before beginning University. Everything had been going reasonably well, until they find themselves arrested after a problem at customs. Three weeks later, still in prison awaiting their court date, a defence barrister […]

By Ian Cowell

Mon, 18 September, 2017 — Sat, 23 September, 2017

Cast: George Drennan, Anne Lacey and Matthew Tomlinson. DISTURBED is a black comedy set in the present day. Sexagenarian couple, Peter and Grace, lead a pretty humdrum existence enlivened only by the periodic murder of their lodgers. After bludgeoning their latest boarder to death they are joined by an enigmatic young man who has them […]

By Jane Livingstone

Mon, 11 September, 2017 — Sat, 16 September, 2017

Cast: Kirstin McLean, Sally Reid and Clare Waugh.  Produced in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts Having fled the witchprickers of Fife and with the new king on a mission to spread witchhunting to England, Lilyan begs her friend Shakespeare not to include witches in his latest play. Meanwhile, Isobel, Mags and Janet – struggling with […]

By Simon Macallum

Mon, 04 September, 2017 — Sat, 09 September, 2017

Cast: Neil Leiper, Vincent Friell and Barbara Rafferty George Adams is an author renowned for gritty thrillers which explore the seedy underbelly of Scottish urban life. He enjoys his reputation as a ‘hardman’ who knows the underworld he writes about. On the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Glasgow trapped in a tiny cabin with a […]

By Stuart Hepburn

Mon, 28 August, 2017 — Sat, 02 September, 2017

Cast: Gavin Jon Wright, Ryan Fletcher and James MacKenzie Soren Kierkegaard once said that life has to be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.  “The Empty Charcoal Box” is the tragi-comic story of Billy Brewster and his two best friends, Eddie and Deansy.  It tells of how a seemingly inconsequential event on their […]

By Gary McNair. Music by Dave Anderson

Mon, 03 July, 2017 — Sat, 22 July, 2017

Cast: Dave Anderson, Darren Brownlie, Kirstin McLean and Frances Thorburn For hundreds of years Pinocchio has been the liar. That’s just been his thing. He thought it made him cool. But now, in 2017 he’s realised that lying is nothing special, everybody’s at it- politicians, bankers, news reporters. The games up. So Pinocchio is moving on […]

By Giacomo Puccini | Adapted By Alexander Tarbet

Mon, 26 June, 2017 — Sat, 01 July, 2017

Our trio of international opera stars: Christina Dunwoodie, John Hudson and Julian Tovey also featuring Neil Thomas  Musical Director: Julia Lynch It’s opera, Giacomo, but not as we know it. All the way from the Met, Covent Garden and Milan to Oran Mor, a trio of international opera stars will perform the most thrilling music from Puccini’s most […]