A host of performances by former IASH artists-in-residence will be taking place around Scotland in the next few months. A full list of Fringe performances will be posted separately in June.
Lewis Hetherington – The Visitors
Berwick Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed
30-31 May https://www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/lewis-hetherington-the-visitors/
Something is coming ashore. They have been watching, fascinated by the earth-dwellers. A whisper on the waves heralds their arrival. Prepare for an otherworldly encounter on the streets of Berwick. For two days, join in a joyful and curious celebration between worlds. The Visitors are coming to meet you – are you ready?
Linda McLean – The Long Drop
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
5-20 June https://citz.co.uk/whats-on/the-long-drop/#book
Glasgow, 1957. A family destroyed. A man who insists he knows why. Between whisky-soaked confessions and half-truths swirling in cigarette smoke, William Watt and Peter Manuel share a night that will change everything. Winding through stale-aired bars, shadowed backstreets and tangled lies – leading to one of the most infamous trials in Scottish history. From one of Scotland’s most acclaimed crime writers, Denise Mina, and adapted by award-winning playwright Linda McLean, The Long Drop is an electrifying new play – equal parts psychological thriller and pitch-black comedy. Gritty and gripping, it plunges us into a world of gangsters, gossip, and half-truths told over one too many drinks.
Apphia Campbell and Isla Cowan - Lyceum At Home On Stage
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
18-20 June https://lyceum.org.uk/events/lyceum-at-home-performance
Following an intimate run in homes across Edinburgh, four specially commissioned plays come together for the first time in a compelling quadruple bill. Written by leading Scottish voices - Apphia Campbell (Black is the Color of My Voice, Through the Mud), Alexander McCall Smith (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, 44 Scotland Street novels), Isla Cowan (Alright Sunshine, To the Bone) and Stephen Greenhorn (Sunshine on Leith, River City) - these powerful 30-minute monologues capture the lives, choices and everyday moments that shape the city.
Part of the Lyceum’s 60th Anniversary celebrations, this is a rare opportunity to see all four plays in one unforgettable evening of storytelling.
Javad Darei – Strikers
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow (part of Refugee Festival Scotland)
Tuesday 16 June, 16:30 https://www.refugeefestivalscotland.co.uk/events/event/strikers-by-javad-daraei-work-in-progress/
Strikers is a politically charged, absurdist play about a soldier falling apart under the pressure of war. The work is informed by the writer’s own experience as a political prisoner tortured in Iran, and his father’s imprisonment and torture as a soldier in the Iran–Iraq war. But this is not autobiography, it is a collective cry. Strikers asks you to witness, not to pity.
David Harrower – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
2-18 October https://lyceum.org.uk/events/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
21-24 October https://citz.co.uk/whats-on/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/
‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.’ At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famously, in her prime. Each year, Brodie selects her ‘set’. The crème de la crème of girls whom she will shape through art and politics, stories of sexual liberation and titillating glimpses of the women they could become. In return, she demands utter loyalty from them all. Witty, seductive and swirling in contradictions, Brodie’s mythical ability to invent her own truths and manipulate her girls ultimately leads her to risk everything. In an adaptation by David Harrower, which sharpens the knives of Spark’s extraordinary work, and with a cast lead by Gayle Rankin (Glow, House of The Dragon), this visceral production looks head on at our enduring moral fascination with such a beguiling and dangerous character.