What's On

Mon, 18 March, 2019 — Sat, 23 March, 2019

Cast: Ronan Doyle, Janette Foggo & Billy Mack The bitter winter of 1836 brings death, disease and destruction to the British whaling fleet locked into the Arctic ice. Captain Reid and Peter are sole survivors of the tragic Viewforth. They recuperate in Mrs Humphrey’s house, a temporary hospital in Stromness, Orkney. In this darkly comic […]

Mon, 25 March, 2019 — Sat, 30 March, 2019

Cast: Dave Anderson, Maureen Carr & Brian James O’Sullivan The “Comedian’s Comedian” Chic Murray passed away in Edinburgh on the night of the 29th of January, 1985. In a career that had taken him from an engineer’s apprenticeship in Kincaid’s Shipyard, Greenock, to the top of the bill at The London Palladium, Chic was a […]

Mon, 01 April, 2019 — Sat, 06 April, 2019

Cast: Joyce Falconer, David McGowan & Karen Ramsay “So every dream that I’ve dreamed has come true a hundred times…” (Elvis) Joan is an amateur Elvis impersonator with big dreams. And she’s got the outfit. With the regional heat of Ultimate Elvis coming soon, Joan knows there’s work to do. But Joan has The King […]

Mon, 08 April, 2019 — Sat, 13 April, 2019

Cast: Selina Boyack, Keith Fleming & Nick Ikunda George & Joy Adamson, like many others before and since, loved the animal kingdom as much, probably more, than their fellow humans. They camped for years – decades – in areas where humans were few, but dangerous wildlife teemed around them. With no mobiles, or skype, to relieve […]

Mon, 15 April, 2019 — Sat, 20 April, 2019

Ninety years after his own demise, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s internationally acclaimed masterpiece lies in ruins. For the second time in four years a fire has torn through Glasgow’s most venerable building, tearing just-healed scars wide apart once more. Should we save The Mack or just let it go? Are there really things “more precious more […]

Mon, 22 April, 2019 — Sat, 27 April, 2019

Winner of the People’s Choice Vote This lovingly disrespectful homage to one of the classic films of all time was first performed at Òran Mór in 2010 and has since been performed in Paris, London and Barbados. Set in Morocco 1941, a Nazi infested hotbed of corruption, teeming with refugees all desperate to get hold of […]

Mon, 29 April, 2019 — Sat, 04 May, 2019

The Origins of Ivor Punch is a play based on the Edinburgh International First Book Award-winning novel ‘The Letters of Ivor Punch’ by musician and author Colin MacIntyre (Mull Historical Society). Set in the present day and in the 1860’s on a remote Scottish island (based on the isle of Mull), it is about mythology […]

Mon, 06 May, 2019 — Sat, 11 May, 2019

At Edinburgh Airport, a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. A woman is screened for domestic radicalisation, while her interrogators decide to perform violent and radical act of their own.  Based on a true story, Toy Plastic Chicken is a blackly comedic exploration of degradation and revolt. Presented in association with the Traverse Theatre. Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright […]

Mon, 13 May, 2019 — Sat, 18 May, 2019

It’s 1979 and rising Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson has travelled to America to play a series of exhibition matches. When he misses his ride to the next event however, Jocky finds himself alone and on the road. All the diminutive Fifer really wants is to get back home but there’s a long and challenging […]

Mon, 20 May, 2019 — Sat, 25 May, 2019

Saturday morning. First round, Under 14’s Scottish Cup. Angie, Danny and Graham take up their regular positions on the touchline to cheer on their boys. Will Mosspark pull off a miracle and beat the Kings of Rosshill? More importantly will their friendships survive to the final whistle? A story about school football, parenting and impossible […]

Mon, 27 May, 2019 — Sat, 01 June, 2019

Tir na nOg is “The Land Of The Young” in Celtic Mythology, where, if you’re heroic, or lucky enough, you go never to grow old.  If you want to read the stories, there’s hunners…. In the modern world, where everyone seems to be searching for Eternal Youth, our Poet goes looking for…she doesn’t know what. Expect Tall […]

Mon, 03 June, 2019 — Sat, 08 June, 2019

The waiting room for the Stranraer to Belfast ferry. Two old schoolfriends bump into each other. Jimmy Culver is an out of work actor on his way to the biggest audition of his life. Eddie Harrison is the captain of Celtic and one of the world’s most famous and controversial footballers. What happens next will […]

Mon, 10 June, 2019 — Sat, 15 June, 2019

If they gave them out for brave service during the Drug Wars Ida Tamson would have a Victoria Cross. Her daughter died of an OD and Ida is raising her kids but one boy’s daddy is The Flesher and the Flesher wants the boy back because he is leaving for Cyprus. Can Ida convince him to leave without the boy? Who should she trust […]

Mon, 17 June, 2019 — Sat, 22 June, 2019

It’s 1964 and Dusty Springfield is at the height of her fame, scoring hits in the UK, US and around the world. On a tour of South Africa she refuses to play to segregated audiences and finds herself demonised and threatened by South Africa’s security police and jeered at back home in England for her […]

Mon, 24 June, 2019 — Sat, 29 June, 2019

Three characters sitting in a glass shelter on the pier during a blustery gale; waiting… each of them has a story to tell about each of the seaside towns on the Clyde coast that the ferries plied on their legendary summer trips, (doon the watter) heaving with city and town holiday day trippers; Milport, Wemyss […]