By David Cosgrove

Mon, 01 February, 2016 — Sat, 06 February, 2016

Featuring John Kielty, Alison Peebles and Frances Thorburn “Ethel was no good for anything except to create chaos and fear.”  – Judy Garland about her mother. April 1961, a little rehearsal room in Manhattan, and Judy Garland is a day away from playing what will become the legendary Carnegie Hall concerts.  Struggling under the crushing […]

By Victoria Bianchi

Mon, 25 January, 2016 — Sat, 30 January, 2016

Featuring Beth Marshall and Stephanie McGregor CauseWay is based on a true story of Frances Parker and Ethel Moorhead, two suffragettes who, in 1914, cycled to the Robert Burns’ cottage armed with a mission and pipe bombs. From their first meeting to Ethel’s eventual incarceration, it explores the story of two women, and of one cause that […]

By Dave Anderson and Gary McNair

Mon, 30 November, 2015 — Wed, 23 December, 2015

For the Òran Mór Christmas Panto 2017 Cinderella 2: I Married a Numpty please click here Featuring Dave Anderson, George Drennan, Frances Thorburn and Anita Vettesse Ali is a very poor man, with a brother who is wealthy. He also has a wife who looks, let’s face it, like a man. One day, Ali is in […]

By David Leddy

Mon, 23 November, 2015 — Sat, 28 November, 2015

Featuring Louise Ludgate and Mark Prendergast Produced in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts, and developed in association with Fire Exit An everyday tale of caution, courage and Cleo Laine. Celia and Oliver are in the world’s most expensive hotel, drunk on the world’s most expensive champagne. It’s not good. They have thirty minutes to make […]

By John Carnegie

Mon, 16 November, 2015 — Sat, 21 November, 2015

Featuring Ross Allan, Maureen Beattie, Isabella Jarrett and Peter Kelly Derived from Henrik Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Borkman” On the eve of the First World War, in a house in a bleak valley high above Edinburgh, two sisters come face to face for the first time in eight years.  In the room above them, they can […]

By Anita Vettesse

Mon, 09 November, 2015 — Sat, 14 November, 2015

Featuring Hannah Donaldson, Anne Lacey and Stephen McCole Presented in association with the Sherman Cymru and Tobacco Factory Theatres  Anne’s finally got both her children together again to scatter her husband’s ashes in the family pub – somewhere… Kay wants to hurry it along. Tom’s just jetlagged. But Anne’s having none of it. She wants […]

By Gary McNair

Mon, 02 November, 2015 — Sat, 07 November, 2015

Featuring Maureen Carr and George Docherty The year is 2045. Yes, it’s the future, but before you start thinking about robots and The Jetsons, don’t. It’s just like now, but a little more…less good. Jim and Agnes have worked hard their whole life and are looking forwarding to spending their retirement together. Plans are thwarted […]

By Rebecca Sharp

Mon, 26 October, 2015 — Sat, 31 October, 2015

Composed by Pippa Murphy Featuring Kim Allan and David Rankine  Presented in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts and sound – Scotland’s Festival of New Music A woman’s chronic somniphobia (fear of sleep) leads her to develop an elaborate system of rituals in order to survive the hours of night – measuring time, light, distances, stars – […]

By James Runcie

Mon, 19 October, 2015 — Sat, 24 October, 2015

Featuring Simon Donaldson, Alasdair MacRae, Mark McDonnell  and Gerda Stevenson  Presented by the Traverse Theatre In 1746 Samuel Johnson began to compile his famous Dictionary. Despite his famous antipathy to Scotland ( “a very vile country to be sure”) , five out of his six assistants were Scots. How did they help him and what was […]

By Linda Duncan McLaughlin

Mon, 12 October, 2015 — Sat, 17 October, 2015

Featuring Barrie Hunter, Fiona MacNeil and Wendy Seager Presented by the Traverse Theatre, in association with Luminate: Scotland’s creative ageing festival  What makes you ‘you’? What makes you love someone? And is it possible to hold onto it all when everything you share begins to disappear? … or are you just clinging to the ghost […]

By Cathy Forde

Mon, 05 October, 2015 — Sat, 10 October, 2015

Featuring Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter and Alan McHugh In association with Aberdeen Performing Arts and presented by the Traverse Theatre Susan is a young woman from Blantyre with somewhere else she’d far rather be than the project room in a Glasgow school where she meets Gerry, a handyman and pub-quiz fan who never passes up on an […]

By Adam Peck

Mon, 28 September, 2015 — Sat, 03 October, 2015

Featuring Rosie Mason and Darren Seed In association with Tobacco Factory, Bristol and presented by the Traverse Theatre We don’t see any reason to stay here – life on Earth really isn’t that great, not for us. Neil and Dawn have been offered the trip of a lifetime – a space-flight to Mars. All they have to do […]

By Nalini Chetty

Mon, 21 September, 2015 — Sat, 26 September, 2015

Featuring Keiran Gallacher, Beth Marshall and Miles Yekinni Presented in association with the Traverse Theatre “Did you know that your deepest memories are not stored in your brain? Truly. No. Memories are lodged in your bones. Any creature born with bones is born with knowledge”               Ray MacNair is seventeen […]

By By the DM Collective

Mon, 14 September, 2015 — Sat, 19 September, 2015

Featuring Dave Anderson, Joyce Falconer, Cat Grozier, Brian James and Kirstin McLean The celebrated team behind the Jean Jacques Rousseau Show, Demons, and The Deficit Show bring us another satirical political sketch show one year on from the referendum and four months on from the UK General election. It is an added joy that they have […]