Mon, 10 March, 2025 — Sat, 15 March, 2025
Directed by Lana Pheutan
A new comedy set on the Isle of Skye about two drunken cousins who take on the rural housing crisis…sort of.
When cousins Eilidh and Eilidh Bheag drunkenly stumble out of a Skye pub, they are met with absolute quiet. No passing cars to take them home, no parties to crash, no place to call their own…just empty ‘homes’.
They decide enough is enough and break into one of the houses to stage a protest. In the morning, as the cousins sober up and work out what on earth they’ve done, they hear a pair of footsteps on the stairs and realise they’ve got it all wrong.
Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh is a new topical comedy written and directed by Lana Pheutan, highlighting the rural housing crisis and its impact on island communities.
Co-presented with Traverse Theatre.
Writer and director: Lana Pheutan
Lana Pheutan is an actor, writer and director from the Isle of Skye. She’s a native Gàidhlig speaker and works bilingually across theatre, film, television and radio. She co-writes and stars in Glan Fhèin which was nominated for a Celtic Media Award (2024). She is the recipient of Playwrights Studio Scotland’s Gaelic Playwriting Bursary (2024) and is currently on the Sean Connery Talent Lab (NFTS). She directed Salamander (2023) and Mary, Queen of Rock! (2024) with her company Pretty Knickers Productions. As an actor, she has appeared in Scots Squad (Comedy Unit), OMC (Comedy Unit), FUNC (The Woven Thread) and more. She is also a regular on BBC Scotland’s topical sketch show Noising Up! and sings with Scottish Traditional and Electronic music group, Valtos.
She’s passionate about representing Gaels as bold and complex individuals, writing stories about the people who live in these communities, not the tweed-wearing, tattie-loving, backward thinking stereotypes that people are used to seeing. Although she does love tatties.