New Works 2014
18th-20th February 2014
Cottiers Theatre
Poster designed by Natalie Kenna
Flush (That Sinking Feeling)
When a merger between a Chinese and a British contraceptive company falls through, the employees on the British side discover that a business and leisure cruise isn’t all handshakes and pina coladas.
Written by Alan Wanders with Alice Linnane directing, FLUSH is a hilarious piece of new writing that is on Wednesday 19th February.
Cast features Rob Anderson as Hockney,
Tom Rouvray as Pritchard
Angus Yellowlees as Monolith
James Johnson as Queeny
Ross Somerville as Doctor
Kirsty McAdam as Yolanda
Katy Johnston as the Ghostwriter
Albert Ohlin as Translator
Victoria Hensler as Translator
After Dinner
Howard regales his friends with a tale that could change all their lives.
Written by Ross Van Gogh and Directed by Chloe Turner
Cast features David Bain as Howard
Alisair Wales a Philip
Carl Macpherson as Pickman
David Stevens as Herbert
Connor O'Donnelly as Old Man
Fabulous Felix and His Dancing Dunces
Fabulous Felix is the tale of a Fab Magician, and the Four Skinheads he trapped in a box
The Bottom Drawer
An eerie play that reaches through the windows of one of Glasgow’s West End guest houses and into the past; visiting a 1920s family with a secret they’d rather keep.
Written and directed by Hannah McLean
Helene Groen as Dramaturg
Stage Management by Maria Costa
Cast featuring Katy Johnson
Raymond Wilson,
David Bain
Catherine Elliot
Ingenue
It's 1888. Actresses prepare, illicit deals are struck, and Jack the Ripper has been at it again.
A dark take on the power of popular entertainment to corrupt, sexualise and distract against the sexy, gritty backdrop of Victorian London.
Written by Catriona MacLeod
Directed by Roisin Kelly
Amy Tyler as dramaturg
Cast features Polly Burn
Cait Lennox
Catriona MacLeod
Max Chase
Sarah Gibbon
Frank
Frank O’Kane is an Irish swing singer who, tonight, will discuss fleeting fame, young love, being completely useless, and having no future whatsoever worth talking about
Judges
Oliver Emanuel
Susannah Armitage
Lynda Radley
Mark MacNicol