Featuring live music and a cast of four actors that take on a lot of different roles, Alex & Eliza is a delight from start to finish. The piece tells […]
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The Monstrous Heart – Traverse Theatre
Somewhere in Canada, a blizzard is raging outside and Mag receives an unexpected visit from her estranged daughter, Beth. Animalistic and unpredictable, Beth storms her way back into her mother’s […]
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Build A Rocket – Traverse Theatre
An award-winning one-woman show written by Christopher York, directed by Paul Robinson, and performed by the incredible Serena Manteghi, Build a Rocket follows the story of bubbly Yasmin—a young girl in Scarsborough whose life is transformed when she becomes pregnant at sixteen.
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The Drift – Traverse Theatre
The Drift is a spoken word piece written and performed by Hannah Lavery. It gorgeously asserts the active nature of history in Scotland today. In 2014, Lavery’s father died just when they were starting to talk after a period of estrangement. In The Drift, Lavery explores how her uncertain relationship with her father informed and defined her relationship with Scotland as a person of ‘mixed’ ethnicity, and how that link is just as important today as it ever was.
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The Panopticon – Traverse Theatre
Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon is unmissable in its new translation to the stage at the Traverse Theatre. In a dystopian-esque setting, we meet Anaïs Hendricks having just been returned to the custody of her latest care home by a less-than-friendly police officer.
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Fly Me to the Moon – Traverse Theatre
‘Fly Me to the Moon’ follows Francis and Loretta, two community care workers who find their elderly charge dead in his bathroom. When they realise they can gain from his death, they delve into morally grey areas.
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