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Mick was the kind of gangster who was proud of where he came from, who protected and looked after his own kind. But if you crossed him, well, that was a different story. A man defined by the landscape of Glasgow, that infamous no mean city, the tales of what Mick did to those people have become the stuff of…

Beckett on Film: Catastrophe: Directed by David Mamet and starring Harold Pinter, Rebecca Pidgeon and John Gielgud. Rough for Theatre II: Directed by Katie Mitchell and starring Jim Norton, Timothy Spall and Hugh B O’Brien. Breath: Directed by Damien †Hirst.

BA2 Theatre Company. Join BA2 Theatre Company as they dramatically and musically explore the secret world of an ordinary girl living through an extraordinary and terrifying time. This beautifully written, poignant piece reflects the fear and loneliness of a young woman caught up in a conflict over which she has no…

She's a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She's pregnant. Her career in the sky is over. Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over Pakistan. She struggles through surreal 12 hour shifts far from the battlefield - hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by…

A video of a complete performance of the 1999 OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights with Joseph Mawra’s B-movie classic, Olga’s House of Shame. ‘Bedazzling … there’s nothing else like it around; it turns disorientation into a primary sensual pleasure, even as it raises terrifying…

INES WURTH PRESENTS. During the worst blizzard in New York City history, Julia, a call girl, arrives for an appointment with Jeffrey, a reclusive young man who has gotten rich by inventing best-selling sexual devices. What starts as a routine trick with trimmings (fake palm trees, suntan lotion, and lots of margaritas…

‘There’s more to the truth than facts.’ Belfast is a place where things need to be said. Jimmy and Ian are meeting tonight for the first time. They share a violent past. They need to talk. Quietly is a powerful story about truth and forgiveness. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in November 2012 and was…

The American High School Theatre Festival. A poignant study in the aches of bereavement, problems with intimacy, uneasy friends, and a house of reminders of one who has passed in an untimely death! A life-shattering accident turns the Corbetts' world upside-down and charts their search for comfort and a path that will…

Blue Tree Theatre Company. The production explores what happens after the adrenalin and intoxication of a newly formed relationship fades. A Reason to Smile centres on a contemporary couple and charts the relationship's evolution, cross-cutting between significant moments of their lives together. The use of physical…

Strung Up Theatre Company. Mental health issues: myth or fact? Based on interviews, conversations, questionnaires and emails gathered over the past year, Snap Out Of It! tells the stories of real people experiencing mental health issues in the UK today. By turns touching, funny and thought-provoking, we present a…

Theatre Uncut presents new plays that aim to get people thinking, talking and taking action on what is going on in the world around us. The plays are available for anyone to perform anywhere during Theatre Uncut’s annual mass theatrical action events. Following the success at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe (winning a…

Sarah Kane's poetic masterpiece that sparked controversy and debate. Performed intimately, using physicality alongside the dialogue to question clinical depression and provide insight into the fragility of the human mind. Hard-hitting but beautiful.

The American High School Theatre Festival. Robert Fulghum's classic life instruction book comes to life on stage as he gently reminds us of what is truly important in life: to play, laugh, love, and live life to its fullest. Through a series of vignettes and songs we celebrate our humanity, from the whimsy of…

‘A life of unending misery in a world devoid of God, now that’s funny.’ Maddy Rooney is in her seventies – unsightly, ungainly and unwell – laboriously to-ing and fro-ing between her home and Boghill Station. This is a landscape whose details are drawn from the suburbs of Foxrock and Leopardstown from Beckett’s youth, but…

We know we have to sit up and face the front. We know that we have the right to remain silent, but that anything we say may harm our defence. We know that we have to succeed. After a sell-out 2011 Fringe, Herald Angel Award winners Junction 25 are back with a brand new show. An immersive experience about formal…

What caused Lord Byron to leave England in a hurry in 1812? Stoppard's comic masterpiece: the present explores the past in a frenetic whirl of maths, philosophy, sex and rice pudding. In the present day, Bernard (egoist and historian) is determined to find out the truth of the past, while in 1809 Lady Thomasina…

The American High School Theatre Festival. Goddesses. Heroes. A young sorceress. A journey into the unknown. Good, evil, and magic. San Domenico School proudly presents an all-female cast in this ingenious telling of Jason and the Argonauts. On a quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason is befriended by the goddesses Hera…

Aspiring actors audition for an exclusive place in the Conservatory's comprehensive and demanding training programmes. Audition will be used for admission as well as scholarship consideration. Please prepare two one-minute monologues.

Dyad Productions in association with TTI. They're back! Thirteen of Jane Austen's heroines come to life in this bold revisiting of some of literature's most celebrated works. This much-loved Edinburgh 2009 sell-out hit returns for a special limited run as Rebecca Vaughan becomes Emma Woodhouse, Lizzy Bennet, Mrs…

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. A coming of age story like no other, join us in Avenue Q with a cast of fluffy, filthy and unforgettable characters who've found themselves living on the wrong side of Sesame Street… Featuring an enlightening repertoire of Tony Award winning songs such as It Sucks to Be Me and What do…

Producer of the Beckett on Film project, Michael Colgan discusses the challenges in creating this extraordinary film collection.