By Philip Differ

Mon, 21 November, 2016 — Sat, 26 November, 2016

Produced in Association with Aberdeen Performing Arts. Featuring Matt Costello, Anne Kidd and Billy McBain. Zulu, Where Eagles Dare, The Alamo, Spartacus. Can trips to the local picture house fifty years ago still be having an influence today? When charged with the task of emptying all the ‘rubbish’ from a dilapidated cinema projection room, a […]

By William McIlvanney

Mon, 14 November, 2016 — Sat, 19 November, 2016

Featuring Iain Robertson  On the Sidelines by Willie McIlvanney appeared in the very first season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint back in Autumn 2004. As a tribute to Willie, who died last year, we are reviving this gem of a play – After 16 years of marriage John Mitchell finds himself living alone […]

By Damian Mullen

Mon, 07 November, 2016 — Sat, 12 November, 2016

Featuring Nicola Auld, Jennifer Hainey and Barbara Rafferty. ‘Three women, a coffin and a very long night’ The night before Bobby’s funeral. The Wake is over, the mourners have left. A time for calmness, reflection, prayer. …Not a chance. Newly widowed Kitty is united; or reunited, with her daughters around the coffin. Staying true to her […]

By Kelly Jones

Mon, 31 October, 2016 — Sat, 05 November, 2016

Produced in association with the Sherman Theatre. Featuring Claire Cage, Michele Gallagher and Sally Reid. Pigs Viv, Coco and Lacey are on their way to the slaughterhouse. Time is running out, the heat is unbearable and they’re desperate to escape. But is it too late? And can they escape the van, the purpose that they’ve been […]

By James Runcie

Mon, 24 October, 2016 — Sat, 29 October, 2016

Presented in association with the Traverse Theatre. Featuring Simon Donaldson, Lewis Howden, Gerda Stevenson and Morna Young. And Ciaran Alexander Stewart. A new take on the famous Journey to the Western Isles of 1773 in which Samuel “Dictionary” Johnson travels north to explore three new languages (Scots, Gaelic and an early form of British Sign Language) […]

By Alan Bissett

Mon, 17 October, 2016 — Sat, 22 October, 2016

A Co-Production with Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, presented in association with Traverse Theatre and Aberdeen Performing Arts. Featuring Euan Cuthbertson, David James Kirkwood, Ewan Petrie and Andrew John Tait. ‘I’m simply asking, Mr Waters, how do you know it’s Syd who has the problem?’ London, 1967. Pink Floyd have just released their […]

By Morna Pearson

Mon, 10 October, 2016 — Sat, 15 October, 2016

Presented in association with the Traverse Theatre. Featuring Andy Clark and Helen MacKay. When Claire was little she’d pretend she was Superman, flying through the air as she leapt from one wall to another.  Now she’s an adult she hates her dull office job.  She also hates the litter, the graffiti and the drugs on the […]

By Ellie Stewart

Mon, 03 October, 2016 — Sat, 08 October, 2016

Presented in association with the Traverse Theatre. Featuring Alison McFarlane, David Rankine and Elspeth Turner. Ronnat and Brigid live alone on a tiny island where they trade with the monastery across the water. The delicate equilibrium of their lives is threatened when a man washes up on the beach seeking work and shelter. Set on Eilean […]

By Kieran Lynn

Mon, 26 September, 2016 — Sat, 01 October, 2016

Featuring Jimmy Chisholm, Steven McNicoll  and Nicola Roy. Presented in association with Eleven and the Traverse Theatre. The Arctic is in danger and the only thing that can save it is bureaucracy. Frank Montgomery is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chief Scientific Advisor to the Arctic Council. He’s in Barrow, Alaska, at the biannual meeting of […]

By Jane Livingstone

Mon, 19 September, 2016 — Sat, 24 September, 2016

Featuring Paul James Corrigan,  Angela Darcy and Jenny Lee. Produced in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts. At nearly 90 years of age, Miss Veitch’s mind is still sharp but she is confined to bed and entirely dependent on her day time carer. When increasing ill health sees a new carer brought in to look after […]

By Stuart Paterson

Mon, 12 September, 2016 — Sat, 17 September, 2016

Featuring David McKay, Billy Riddoch and Laurie Ventry.  Adapted by Stuart Paterson from the delightfully wise and funny short story by Anton Chekhov. Archdeacon Orlov is exhausted after his Easter sermons, Father Andrey is desperate to save his reprobate son, and Father Anastasy is dying for a glass of vodka, but if the Archdeacon’s magnificent letter to the […]

By Muriel Gray

Mon, 05 September, 2016 — Sat, 10 September, 2016

Featuring Kirsty McDuff, Hilary Lyon and Alan McHugh. Two spectators,  Julie, a middle aged mother of three, and Pat, a young, sporty ambitious runner, find themselves standing next to each other at the finishing line behind the barrier of a marathon. Both are there for very different reasons, and both have lives that seem very […]

By Clive King

Mon, 29 August, 2016 — Sat, 03 September, 2016

Featuring Maureen Carr, John Kielty and Barbara Rafferty. California, January 1977.  Dolly Sinatra, mother of the iconic singer, boards a Lear jet with her recently widowed friend Ella.  They’re off to Las Vegas to see ‘Ol Blue Eyes open at Caesar’s Palace.  Ella enjoys quizzing her pal about her tempestuous relationship with her famous son.  […]

By Gary McNair and Dave Anderson

Mon, 04 July, 2016 — Sat, 23 July, 2016

Starring Dave Anderson, Juliet Cadzow, George Drennan and Kirstin McLean There’s a miller, he’s skint. Of course he is, he’s a miller. His daughter is beautiful. Of course she is, it’s a panto. One day, the miller farms his daughter off to a handsome prince on the promise that she can spin straw into gold. […]