Macbeth takes place in a brutalised country torn apart by civil war, tyrants become kings; women, warriors. The ‘Scotland’ of our modern era becomes influenced by images from recent events in central Africa, where whole sections of the population have been massacred; brutal maiming and rapes have become accustomed weapons of war and where child […]
11 Feb 2004
Drag Queen Bernice Hindley – “Myra’s niece” – pulls you into a secret city. Meet her fucked-up friends and family: Violent trannies, self-combusting grannies, Jack Russells driving cars… At its heart, there’s a sickening crime story from Glasgow’s gay underworld. But it’s just part of Russell Barr’s funny, touching show about a young man blowing […]
11 Feb 2004
Cat’s got big feet so her boyfriend calls her Duck. Cat’s also got a middle-aged lover who drinks and writes books, a best friend with brains and a psychotic mum, a boyfriend with a nightclub, a gun, and some unfinished business… But which of these unravelling threads will she follow? Cat and Sophie are teenagers on the brink, growing […]
11 Feb 2003
Premiered in 1773, She Stoops to Conquer broke the mould with its satirical swipe at polite society. It tells the story of young Charles Marlow and his search for the perfect wife. Inept in the art of love, he’s unable to woo ladies of the upper class, but when he falls for the barmaid he […]
11 Feb 2002
It’s party conference time, and in the leader’s hotel suite, the spin doctors are sweating over the Prime Minister’s speech. With public opinion increasingly volatile, there’s panic at the top. This time it’s all got to be perfect. But in the same hotel a journalist is piecing together a scandal so far-reaching that it could […]
11 Feb 2001
‘I woke up…looked at you lying there next to me. And I saw my son.’ Thirty-five and on the slide, Suzanne does a runner back home to Brighton in search of a new start. But home is a place where big breaks are scarce. And kids grow up – fast. So how do you find […]
11 Feb 2001
Sharp, funny and disarmingly direct, Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical Rita, Sue and Bob Too follows the lives of two feisty schoolgirls who grow up on a Bradford estate and start an affair with a married man. Written in 1982 when Dunbar was only 18, the play was originally commissioned and directed by Max Stafford-Clark. Rita, Sue […]
11 Feb 2000
Ray was stitched up and now he’s out of jail, he’s out to settle the score. Whatever it takes. In this darkly comic story of burglary, double-dealing and brotherly hate, there is no honour among thieves. Informed by his own experience, Simon Bennett’s play concerns the crisis in the life of a recently released house-breaker. […]
11 Feb 1999
“We’ve reached ‘they all lived happily ever after’ and we’ve gone past it and we’re still carrying on. Nobody’s ever written that bit before but we’re doing it. This is the happy world.” After 15 years inside, political activist Nick emerges to find that the old causes of the 80s have become the lost causes […]
11 Feb 1999
Our Lady of Sligo tells the compelling story of Mai O’Hara and her flamboyant but destructive relationship with husband Jack, daughter Joanie and the lost country of her childhood. Fuelled by alcohol, passion and despair, it’s the story of a certain class in Ireland that expected more than it got from independence and self-rule. Sebastian […]
11 Feb 1998
