Mon, 12 May, 2025 — Sat, 17 May, 2025
Directed by Beth Morton
A fish-out-of-water comedy with original songs about a lonely young woman who moves to Dundee, in search of community.
Charlie Braid loves her life working at the Inverness Dreamland Bowlarama. In her world, everything is just perfect until one day, after a tragic turn of events, Charlie is forced to leave her job at the Bowlarama and doesn’t quite know what to do with herself.
Feeling like there’s no future in Inverness, she decides to hop on the train to the bright lights o’ Dundee. But the grass isnae always greener…
From the team behind Pushin’ Thirty, Goodbye Dreamland Bowlarama is a fish-out-of-water comedy with original songs exploring grief and generational trauma.
Writers: Taylor Dyson and Calum Kelly
Director: Beth Morton
Taylor Dyson is an award winning playwright and performer from Dundee. She is one half of Elfie Picket Theatre and works to promote Scots Language and access to the arts. Her credits including writing and performing her critically acclaimed one woman show Ane City (ART award Winner 2019) at Prague and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and Dundee Rep in 2023, writing and performing in sell out community tour, Dolly Parton Saved My Life, and writing and performing in A Play, A Pie and A Pint show in 2024, Pushin' Thirty.
Calum Kelly is a theatre maker from the Isle of Skye, currently living in Dundee. Calum graduated with an MLitt in Playwriting & Dramaturgy from the University of Glasgow before starting his theatre company, Elfie Picket, alongside his partner, Taylor Dyson. Calum directed both Ane City (ART Award 2019) and Dolly Parton Saved My Life (national community tour) and co-wrote Pushin' Thirty, which debuted in Spring 2024 at A Play, A Pie and A Pint receiving critical acclaim.
Beth Morton is a director, theatre-maker, and dramaturg. She was Artistic Director of Mull Theatre in 2020/21, and later Associate Director. Her most recent work includes Catafalque (Scissor Kick); Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin (Beacon Arts Centre), the critically acclaimed digital theatre season of new plays Strange Rocks & Undocumented and animation series Braw Tales (Mull Theatre), as well as short film Cailleach (Mull Theatre/ Sonder Circus). Highlighted among her other works are Ghost Off!, Pushin’ Thirty, Babs, The Infernal Serpent, Turns of the Tide, For The Love of Chekov and After The Cuts (A Play, A Pie and A Pint); The Domestic (NTS - Scenes for Survival/ BBC); and the critically acclaimed reimagined After The Cuts (Raw Material). She was associate director on Eric The Elf’s Chaotic Christmas (MacRobert Arts Centre); Glasgow Girls (Raw Material/Pachamama); and Janis Joplin: Full Tilt (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and has worked notably with the Tron Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, and the National Theatre of Scotland.