Event Category: Drama

A Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre production. An Edinburgh Festival and Off-Broadway smash hit. You’re six years old, Mum finds it hard to be happy, and so you make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world: Ice cream. Kung Fu Movies. Burning Things. Laughing so hard milk shoots out of your nose. Construction… Continue reading Every Brilliant Thing

Written and performed by Apphia Campbell Directed by Arran Hawkins and Nate Jacobs Direct from sell-out performances in Shanghai, New York and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Apphia Campbell embarks on her debut UK tour.   Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Black Is The Color Of My Voice follows a successful jazz singer and… Continue reading Black Is the Color of My Voice

Forsaken is the story of an island set at the moment of depopulation, of a struggle with the past and with future survival. Sandy, the last inhabitant of this small island, is old and barely able to fend for himself, yet is steadfast in his refusal to be moved. In this extreme isolation, memory and myth become inseparable… Continue reading Spindrift Project in Forsaken

A welcome visit from one of Scotland’s most revered theatre companies. They bring us a production of an excellent Canadian play by Michael Healey which has received considerable attention both in Canada and the UK since its debut in 1999. A beautifully written, funny and bittersweet tale set in Canada. It’s 1972, and an eager-eyed… Continue reading Mull Theatre in: The Drawer Boy

Adapted & performed by Rebecca Vaughan Directed by Olivier Award winner, Guy Masterson 1568: At a vital crossroads in history a young queen steps from the shadows to unburden herself of her many troubles and reveal her innermost thoughts on marriage, succession, religion, war, and the challenges to her throne. But time is against her…… Continue reading Dyad Productions in I, Elizabeth

At a time when the NHS has been much challenged, we open our season with a play set against the backdrop of the tainted blood products scandal affecting thousands of haemophiliacs worldwide. Factor 9 is a visceral horror story of human survival and a cry for justice in the face of a medical industrial nightmare.… Continue reading Dogstar Theatre Company in Factor 9

Lung Ha's Theatre Company & Stellar Quines Theatre Company in "13 Sunken Years" Stellar Quines Rehearsal Rooms are spaces where new scripts and new writers are presented to a live audience for the first time. For this Rehearsal Room, Stellar Quines has partnered with Lung Ha's Theatre Company to present 13 Sunken Years by Finnish… Continue reading Lung H

Dogstar Theatre Company presents The Baroness – Karen Blixen’s Final Affair Dogstar is one of Scotland’s most ambitious touring companies and consistently delivers wonderful productions based on interesting themes. In this case, what could arouse more curiosity than a new play about cult figure Karen Blixen who came to the world’s attention with her memorable… Continue reading Dogstar Theatre Company presents The Baroness – Karen Blixe

Gramophones Theatre Company in "End to End" This is the second show which some of the Highland promoters admired in last year's Fringe and invited to tour our venues. It's a delightful and imaginative entertainment performed by three wacky young ladies who hitched from Land's End to John O' Groats and then turned their experience into a… Continue reading Gramophones Theatre Company in ‘End to End’

Skraelings Theatre Company in “The Sea Between Us” Talented young Thurso stage director Iain Macdonald brings us an interesting two-hander which explores a familiar dilemma – the father who wants to maintain an established rural life-style and the son who wants to leave and embrace the urban future. However this is a new play by Sólveig Jónsdóttir, set… Continue reading Skraelings Theatre Company in ‘The Sea Between Us’