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. […]

By Debbie Hannan & Andy McGregor

Mon, 27 June, 2016 — Sat, 02 July, 2016

Starring Darren Brownlie, Paul James Corrigan and Kara Swinney Clara was born in the wrong era. Her wall of vintage records features the most handsome dreamboats in pop music history. She spends most of her time in her head, being romanced by Sinatra, Presley and her favourite, Cliff Richard. One night, her sepia-tinged fantasies become […]

By David Cosgrove

Mon, 20 June, 2016 — Sat, 25 June, 2016

Starring John Kielty, Alison Peebles and Frances Thorburn After the success of the show earlier in the year, we are delighted to be bringing back Frances & Ethel as part of our new Mini Musicals Season. “Ethel was no good for anything except to create chaos and fear.”  – Judy Garland about her mother. April […]

By Morag Fullarton

Mon, 13 June, 2016 — Sat, 18 June, 2016

Starring Jimmy Chisholm, Angela Darcy, George Drennan and Harry Ward Berlin, the late 1920’s… a time of decadence, despair and joie de vivre. A young Jewish composer, Kurt Weill, meets his muse , singer Lotte Lenya and falls in love. He collaborates with playwright Bertolt Brecht on what they both consider a ‘bit of a […]

By Dave Anderson

Mon, 06 June, 2016 — Sat, 11 June, 2016

400th play at A Play,  A Pie and A Pint! Starring Dave Anderson, Davey Anderson, Gregor MacKay, Marianne Pedley, Christina Strachan and Fraser Speirs. “The day I found the Blues The sun was in the sky The Lord was in His Heaven No tear was in my eye No holes was in the soles of […]

By Hector MacMillan

Mon, 30 May, 2016 — Sat, 04 June, 2016

Featuring Peter Kelly, Eileen Nicholas, Finlay Welsh and Elisabeth Flett on Viola. Violins made 300 years ago now change hands for several million pounds each. When a hitherto unknown classic appears, criminal fraudulence is suspected, triggering a lighthearted investigation into a very serious subject. HECTOR MACMILLAN The Sash, The Funeral, The Hypochondriak, Noblesse Obleege and The […]