By Morag Fullarton

Mon, 01 June, 2015 — Sat, 06 June, 2015

Featuring Juliet Cadzow, John Kielty, Mark McDonnell and Frances Thorburn A bitter comedy and a dark tragedy, the story centres on a wealthy, egotistical, faded star, Norma Desmond, desperate to ‘return to the millions of fans she deserted’, and young, down-on-his luck writer, Joe Gillis, who sees a opportunity to exploit the situation. Sunset Boulevard: The Lunchtime Cut is […]

By Yuri Klavdiev | Adapted By Peter Arnott

Mon, 25 May, 2015 — Sat, 30 May, 2015

Literal translation by Alexandra Smith Featuring Simon Donaldson and Kirsty Stuart A surreal and fantastical journey through contemporary Russia as seen through the eyes of one of Russia’s most popular and controversial playwrights. Issues such as gay rights, corruption and love are seen through prisms as wide ranging as Penguins in the Antarctic to a […]

By Deb Jones

Mon, 18 May, 2015 — Sat, 23 May, 2015

Featuring Stephen Clyde and Gaylie Runciman Deb Jones is the second recipient of The David MacLennan Award for new playwrights It is Nov 8th 1973. A long dark night of the soul. Caitlin Thomas, the Irish dancer, battles her double addiction to alcohol and to her obsessive love with Dylan Thomas, the welsh poet who […]

By Lou Prendergast

Mon, 11 May, 2015 — Sat, 16 May, 2015

Featuring Tom McGovern Tommy has good intentions. A self-proclaimed ‘man’s man’ with the gift of the gab and a penchant for Elvis, his plan unravels through a series of dark events, and Tommy cant do right for doing wrong. Lou Prendergast’s theatre practice grew out of visual art training and now includes playwriting, performance and […]

By Mikhail Durnenkov | Adapted By Davey Anderson

Mon, 04 May, 2015 — Sat, 09 May, 2015

Literal translation by Alexandra Smith Featuring Lewis Howden, Anita Vettesse and  Mark Wood Russian troops enter Ukraine. But the war hasn’t started yet. Not officially. Meanwhile, protestors take to the streets, parents lose their children, strangers find lovers, journalists lie on television, cancer patients crack jokes about the absurdity of existence, the downtrodden dream of […]

By Richard Crane

Mon, 27 April, 2015 — Sat, 02 May, 2015

Featuring Jack Klaff, Anna-Maria Nabirye and Iain Robertson In association with Brighton Theatre and the Romanian Cultural Institute Music composed by Vlad Maistorovici “My stake thrusts its roots deep into the soul of this nation”. Vlad has had a mixed press throughout history. In the Ceausescu years, Dracula stories were banned & Vlad was celebrated […]

By Alan Spence

Mon, 20 April, 2015 — Sat, 25 April, 2015

Featuring Steven Duffy and Kevin McMonagle Two iconic Glasgow figures – poet Edwin Morgan and trade union leader Jimmy Reid – died within days of each other in 2010. They are astonished to wake up in a strange afterlife-anteroom where they engage in a flying about life, the Universe and everything – from Glasgow to […]

By Iain Finlay MacLeod | Adapted By Iain Finlay MacLeod

Mon, 13 April, 2015 — Sat, 18 April, 2015

Featuring MJ Deans, Julie Hale, Roseanne Lynch, Calum MacDonald and Iain Macrae World War II and the island of Todday is suffering from a serious drought – a distinct lack of whisky. It casts a long shadow over the island and means that Sergeant Odd cannot marry his sweetheart Peggy. For as everyone knows, a rèiteach […]

By Tim Primrose

Mon, 06 April, 2015 — Sat, 11 April, 2015

Featuring Ron Donachie, Vincent Friell, Kay Gallie, Molly Innes and Kirsty MacKay Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014 Mary is making stock again. Daughter Sheena is no help, as usual – she never could stand the smell of chicken on the boil. Granddaughter Ally was always much more use around the kitchen, but she seems more concerned about her Gran’s […]

By Alison Carr

Mon, 30 March, 2015 — Sat, 04 April, 2015

Featuring Richard Conlon and Meg Fraser “I’ve given you every little piece of me to keep you happy, fed you every last morsel to keep you interested.” Moira and Peter have been having an affair for a decade. He’d promised to finally tell his wife today, but then Peter promises a lot of things. Something’s […]

By Natalia Vorozhbyt | Translated by Sasha Dugdale

Mon, 23 March, 2015 — Sat, 28 March, 2015

Featuring Paul Cunningham, Jenny Hulse and Jill Riddiford In a modest home on the outskirts of Kiev, Katya and Oksana are busy preparing a funeral meal for their beloved Sasha. A husband, a stepfather, an Army colonel. He was all these things until he dropped stone cold dead on the bathroom floor. But Sasha isn’t […]

By Martin McCormick

Mon, 16 March, 2015 — Sat, 21 March, 2015

Featuring Sean Purden Brown, Nathan Byrne, and Keiran Gallacher There aren’t too many places in Scotland where you are the only ‘Prod’ in town. But Ranald is; and he’s the only one in Croy. Literally. Everyone has gone to see the Pope. Except Barr, he’s there too. Although, he doesn’t know where he is, he […]

By Matthew Trevannion

Mon, 09 March, 2015 — Sat, 14 March, 2015

Featuring Claire Cage, Siw Hughes and Gwawr Loader “Will you look at the day? Beautiful, ah? Summer throws you one of these just before it all goes west.” As three generations of the same family soak up the last of the sun’s rays in their back garden, beers in hand, the underlying tensions between the […]

By Rob Drummond

Mon, 02 March, 2015 — Sat, 07 March, 2015

Featuring Daniel Cameron, Lynn Kennedy and Ross Mann Sandra and Jamie have run away from home. You see, Jamie has done something, something bad, and Sandra has vowed to look after her near mute, CPR obsessed little-big brother until their friend Andy comes to save them. But when help finally arrives at their countryside hideout […]