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

Review

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

Review

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

Review

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

Review

Judges

Oliver Emanuel

Susannah Armitage

Lynda Radley

Mark MacNicol