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About Money – 65% Theatre

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Date posted: 2nd Sep 2021

BAA's Michael McCardie is due to appear in Theatre503 and 65% Theatre's production of About Money opening this Monday 06 Sep. About Money is an important story to tell right now about young carers and the dangerous impact of precarious working conditions – on workers, and on the families they…...

Celestial Body – A Play, A Pie and a Pint

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Date posted: 1st Sep 2021

Brennan Artist Neshla Caplan is currently in rehearsals for Celestial Body by Morna Pearson opening at Oran Mor Play, Pie and a Pint on 6th September 2021. Celestial Body is a dark comedy about forgiveness and revenge, presented in association with Traverse Theatre and

Rivercity – Tall Ship Tales

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Date posted: 31st Aug 2021

Produced during River City's lengthy hiatus from our screens due to the pandemic, the Tall Ship Tales are rolling on. The latest of these new materials feature our very own Jimmy Chisholm and Scott Fletcher as much loved characters Sonny and Angus. You can watch the Tall Ship…...

Vigil – BBC One

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Date posted: 29th Aug 2021

Vigil makes its compelling debut on BBC One over the Bank Holiday Weekend featuring BAA's Lisa Livingstone. The series is set in Scotland and revolves around the events after the mysterious disappearance of a fishing trawler and a death onboard a Trident nuclear submarine. Vigil continues to air…...

Our Ladies – Sigma Films

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Date posted: 27th Aug 2021

Long awaited feature Our Ladies starring BAA'S Jay Newton hits cinemas today! Based on the Alan Warner novel The Sopranos, 'Our Ladies' is a coming-of-age comedy-drama film following the misadventures of a group of wayward Catholic school girls from the Scottish highlands as they travel to Edinburgh to compete…...

River City – BBC Scotland

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Date posted: 25th Aug 2021

It's a Brennan Artists bonanza as BBC Scotland's River City returns to our screens featuring our very own Joyce Falconer, Jimmy Chisholm and Scott Fletcher in an episode written by Simon McCallum and directed by David Hayman Jr! Catch the episode on Monday 30th…...

Woodland Creatures – Frozen Charlotte

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Date posted: 23rd Aug 2021

Woodland Creatures featuring BAA's David Rankine is an interactive show exploring children’s relationship with their local natural environment. Suitable for children aged 2-8, Woodland Creatures will tour twelve woodland areas across Aberdeenshire, Moray and the Highlands from 27th August, bringing audiences out of lockdown hibernation by connecting children with the nature…...

Playing with Books – Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Date posted: 20th Aug 2021

The Edinburgh Book Festival's celebrated co-productions with the Royal Lyceum Theatre are back with more theatrical and musical explorations of scenes from much-loved books followed by discussions with the author and creative teams. BAA's Simon Donaldson will feature in dramatic scenes from Denise Mina's award-winning true crime novel…...

Paul Black: Worst Case Scenario – Edinburgh Fringe & Oran Mor

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Brennan Artists Associates client Paul Black finishes sold-out run at Edinburgh Fringe and announces extra nights at Òran Mór. Worst Case Scenario gives us an insight into the self-pity and self-party that guided Paul through lockdown in his live Glasgow debut. We'd provide a link to booking if it…...

Wings Around Dundee – Dundee Rep

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Date posted: 19th Aug 2021

Dundee Rep Ensemble returns to the stage to re-open the Rep in a wildly imaginative and brilliantly funny new play by two-time Fringe First Award-winner John McCann, directed by Finn den Hertog and featuring BAA's Barrie Hunter. A fantastical voyage of discovery through the Dundee’s empty streets and hidden…...

Annika – Alibi

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Date posted: 15th Aug 2021

Annika, written by Perrier nominated writer Nick Walker, is based on the hugely successful Radio 4 drama and features BAA's Hannah Donaldson, Gavin Jon Wright and Paul McCole. The series follows the sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed (Nicola Walker), as she heads up a…...

Thirteen Fragments – NTS & RSE Curious Festival

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Date posted: 3rd Aug 2021

Thirteen Fragments is an artistic response to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Post Covid-19 Futures Commission addressing how Scotland can emerge from the pandemic as a more equitable society. Rooted in the experience of the last year as a woman of colour, this intimate digital artwork brings art…...

Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window – Traverse Theatre: Play, Pie and a Pint

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Brennan Artists clients Maureen Carr and Brian James O'Sullivan feature in the 2019 sell-out show, returning to Edinburgh for a limited run this summer!

On what is his last day on this earth, Chic takes a musical look back at the ups and downs, triumphs and…

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Aye, Elvis: Traverse Theatre – Play, Pie and a Pint

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Brennan Artists client Morna Young's smash-hit lunchtime production Aye, Elvis returns to Edinburgh this summer due to popular demand! Featuring BAA's David McGowan and Joyce Falconer, Aye, Elvis is an alternative love story about escapism, identity and a Doric Elvis. These performances take place in-person at MultiStory (NCP…...

Holding / Holding On – National Theatre of Scotland

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Date posted: 5th Jul 2021

Inspired by conversations with care experienced individuals and sector professionals, Holding / Holding On interrogates the way society treats those in Scotland’s care system. Those who need care, and those who give it. See BAA's Neshla Caplan and Bea Webster in this filmed reading of a work…...

Bard in the Botanics – 20th Anniversary

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Date posted: 2nd Jul 2021

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Glasgow's acclaimed Shakespeare festival, Bard in the Botanics, returns to the Botanic Gardens on July 7th 2021. The Lost and Found season will feature new productions of two plays– Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale - performed on the main stage in the Botanic Gardens…...

MOVE – Traverse Theatre / Silverknowes Beach

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Brennan Artists' AJ/Julia Taudevin brings her exciting show, MOVE, to Silverknowes Beach this summer, in association with Slung Low and the Traverse Theatre. Weaving storytelling, choral soundscape and Gaelic song, five women portray the ebb and flow of people across the globe throughout the ages, in this unique open-air…...

Molly and Mack Returns!

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Date posted: 28th Jun 2021

The latest series of Molly and Mack comes to CBeebies and BBC iPlayer on Monday 28th June. Featuring BAA clients Joshua Haynes, James Mackenzie, Maureen Carr, and Alison Peebles, the new series airs on CBeebies every Monday from 5pm, then will be available on demand…...

Scottish Government – Get Checked Early Campaign

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Date posted: 25th Jun 2021

The incredible Itxaso Moreno is featured in this powerful new film for lung cancer detection, produced by the Scottish Government and the Leith Agency. The campaign has been developed in response to Public Health Scotland’s data that show around 25% fewer lung cancers are being diagnosed now compared…...

The Honey Man – Exeter Northcott Theatre

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Date posted: 23rd Jun 2021

BAA's Amy Kennedy plays Misty in The Honey Man, coming to socially distanced audiences at Exeter Northcott Theatre. The absorbing tale of an unlikely friendship that develops between an ageing West Indian recluse, and Misty, the fiery, sixteen year old heir to the nearby manor house, who bursts into…...

The Lost King

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Date posted: 20th May 2021

Alison Peebles, Bruce Fummey and Simon Donaldson are currently filming  THE LOST KING directed by Stephen Frears, co-written by Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan and produced by Baby Cow. The Lost King is based on…...

Scotland is Here: Scotland is Now

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Date posted: 22nd Jan 2021

Hannah Donaldson delivers a powerful message from the Scottish Government to Europe in this beautifully captured short. Available to view online here #ScotlandisNow  ...

Falling For Figaro

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The FALLING FOR FIGARO trailer has dropped and can be seen here. From acclaimed director Ben Lewin (THE SESSIONS), FALLING FOR FIGARO is a romantic comedy set in the fierce world of opera singing competitions, starring Danielle Macdonald (DUMPLIN', PATTI CAKE$, SKIN) and Joanna Lumley (ME BEFORE YOU,…...

TRACES – BBC One

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Date posted: 16th Jan 2021

Compelling 6 part TV Drama TRACES is currently available to view on the BBC iplayer here "Evidence doesn't lie - people do. Three women try to unearth the truth about an unsolved murder that's very close to home"  ...

There She Goes – Series 2

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Date posted: 8th Jul 2020

'There She Goes' was recommissioned for a second series last year, which is set to make the move from BBC Four to BBC Two, a channel which has been instrumental in the rise of many British comedy classics. Jo Cameron Brown returns in the role of Nana Anne and…...

Connor Bryson in Casualty

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Date posted: 18th May 2020

Connor Bryson plays guest role 'Mal Deniston' in BBC One continuing drama Casualty. Tune into BBC One at 8.40pm on Saturday 23rd May or catch up on the BBC iplayer here  ...

The Tempest: Live, Interactive and in your Living Room

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Date posted: 23rd Apr 2020

Your computer screen is now your very own portal to Prospero’s Island. You’ll be transported from your living rooms to help Ariel’s spirit be freed, plot with Trinculo and Caliban, experience Miranda and Ferdinand falling in love and see Prospero enact his revenge. This will certainly not be your…...

The Nest – BBC One

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Date posted: 20th Mar 2020

The Nest is a new six-part thriller from the writer of Three Girls, coming to BBC One and featuring BAA's Lisa Livingstone and Rosalind Sydney. Set in Glasgow, the series follows a wealthy couple and the teenage girl they ask to carry their baby, and is a fraught portrait…...

The Importance of Being Earnest – Perth Theatre

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Date posted: 9th Mar 2020

The fantastic Amy Kennedy plays Cecily in Perth Theatre's spring production of The Importance of Being Earnest, opening on 7th March. Directed by Lu Kemp, this version of Earnest also features Brennan Voices client, Grant O'Rourke, as Algernon, Karen Dunbar as Lady Bracknell, Caroline Deyga as Gwendolen…...

Children’s Classic Concerts – Tartan Tales

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Date posted: 27th Feb 2020

Tartan Tales is a musical journey through the swirling mists of Scottish myths and legends, backed by Children's Classic Concerts' mini orchestra, and featuring BAA's James Mackenzie as a guest narrator. With performances at Caird Hall, Dundee, and Aberdeen's Music Hall, these concerts are a firm favourite with…...

When The Penny Drops – A Play, A Pie, and A Pint

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Date posted: 16th Feb 2020

BAA's Angela Darcy directs When The Penny Drops, a new play at Oran Mor which also features Michele Gallagher and Simon Donaldson. Penny is a 46-year-old teacher who has it sussed. She can deal with the stresses of the job, including the children, colleagues and parents through…...

Smile – Dundee Rep

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Date posted: 15th Feb 2020

Penned by theatre and television writer Philip Differ and directed by Sally Reid, Smile comes to Dundee Rep this spring, and features BAA's Barrie Hunter and Chris Alexander. Jim McLean might never be called one of Scottish football’s best-loved characters, but he will always be described as one…...

Camino – A Play, A Pie, and A Pint

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Date posted: 11th Feb 2020

Irene Allan features in Camino - a new play at Oran Mor, written by novelist, scriptwriter and veteran TV comedy producer, Sean Hardie (Not The Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, Rory Bremner). The remote shrine of Santamaria Caramonte, (Patron Saint of Misunderstandings and Spiritual Refreshment) lies high up…...

The Secret Garden – On Tour

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Date posted: 2nd Feb 2020

This spring, Red Bridge Arts presents a wild and beautiful retelling of The Secret Garden, adapted and co-directed by BAA's Rosalind Sydney and featuring Itxaso Moreno as Mary. When Mary arrives from far away to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child…...

The Last Ship – California

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Date posted: 10th Jan 2020

This January, Sting takes to the stage for a limited run of his musical, The Last Ship, in California. BAA's Annie Grace will be reprising her role as Baroness Tyndale, and travels with the cast to Los Angeles in early January. The Last Ship runs January 14 -…...

Deadwater Fell – Channel 4

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Date posted: 9th Jan 2020

Brand new crime drama Deadwater Fell comes to Channel 4 this month, and features BAA's Hannah Donaldson.
The series follows a small Scottish community that is rocked by the murder of a seemingly perfect and happy family. Soon enough,…
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Amy Kennedy – River City

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Date posted: 7th Jan 2020

We're thrilled for Amy Kennedy, who will be joining the cast of River City! Playing the mysterious Maisie Evans, Amy arrives in Shieldinch in early 2020 and we're excited to see what she gets up to. Congratulations, Amy!...

Digital Fictions by Visible Fictions

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Date posted: 16th Dec 2019

This year Visible Fictions commissioned 4 writers based in Scotland to tell a Christmas story. The result is Digital Fictions, four films to be released each day from 16th-19th December, 2019. Two of the stories are performed by BAA's Fiona Macneil, and one was written by Laurie…...

Traces – Alibi

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Date posted: 11th Dec 2019

Louise Montgomery features in Traces,  a suspense-filled crime thriller based on an original idea by best-selling crime writer Val McDermid, written by Amelia Bullmore  and set in the world of forensic science in Dundee, Scotland. The star-studded, award-winning cast include Molly Windsor, Laura Fraser, Jennifer Spence,  with Martin…...

I Can Go Anywhere – Traverse Theatre

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Date posted: 6th Dec 2019

I Can Go Anywhere comes to the Traverse Theatre this December and features Paul McCole as Stevie, a disillusioned academic who once wrote an unfashionable book on youth movements in Britain, now struggling to cope after a painful break-up. His misery is interrupted by Jimmy who lands unexpectedly…...

Strange Tales – Traverse Theatre

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Date posted: 29th Nov 2019

Written in China centuries ago, Pu Songling’s Strange Tales has been adapted for stage by BAA's Pauline Lockhart, the acclaimed immersive theatre company Grid Iron, and the Traverse Theatre. Filled with intrigue, mysticism, magic, sensuality, and a dash of terror, Strange Tales will draw you into a world…...

Guilt – BBC Scotland

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Date posted: 24th Oct 2019

BAA's Natali McCleary features in Guilt, the first drama commission for BBC Scotland’s new digital channel. This new four-part drama series is written by Neil Forsyth and features Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives as brothers Max and Jake, who unwittingly run over and kill an old man. Their attempts…...

Fibres – Citizens Theatre/Stellar Quines

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Date posted: 15th Oct 2019

Fibres is a brand new collaboration by the Citizens Theatre and Stellar Quines, and features Maureen Carr as Beanie. “We were two weans playing at wee hooses, him in his first job and me being the good wife doing his washing. Now we’re both paying the price.” Jack is proud…...

The Tale of Little Bevan – On Tour

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Annie Grace joins the cast of The Tale of Little Bevan - a new production by Pentabus, which tours this autumn. In a peaceful Norfolk village, three people are seeking happiness. But as the harvest moon fills and the party begins, ancient forces are brought to life. While…...

Leon Sinden Awards 2019 – Fiona Wood and David Rankine

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Date posted: 3rd Oct 2019

Huge congratulations to Fiona Wood and David Rankine, who each picked up an award at Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s 25th annual Leon Sinden Awards. Audiences and visitors throughout the theatre’s Summer Season have been placing their votes for Best Actor and Actress in a Supporting Role, and the annual…...

The Alchemist – Tron Theatre

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This autumn, The Tron hosts the world premiere of Gary McNair's adaptation of The Alchemist, featuring BAA's Neshla Caplan and Stephen Clyde. 'Douse your hair in treacle, it will act as a thickener. Fill your underpants with sodium bicarbonate and vinegar. Swallow a live goldfish, make sure…...

The Sweetest Growl – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 1st Oct 2019

The Sweetest Growl opens at Oran Mor on Monday 7 October, directed by Lesley Hart and featuring Hilary Lyon. In the 1950’s, Gorbals-born Mary McGowan was the sensational singer with cult Scottish jazz band The Clyde Valley Stompers and was reckoned by Louis Armstrong to have one of…...

Morna Young – Scots Writer o The Year 2019

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Date posted: 28th Sep 2019

We're delighted for Morna Young, who won Scots Writer o The Year at the 2019 Scots Language Awards! The hotly anticipated ceremony hosted by Alistair Heather and Frieda Morrison, celebrated Scotland's national language and rewarded excellence in schools, communities and arts. Morna picked up her award at the…...

Mack The Knife – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 16th Sep 2019

See BAA's Angela Darcy and Kevin Lennon in Oran Mor's revival of Mack The Knife, one of PPP's best loved plays. Berlin, the late 1920’s… a time of decadence, despair and joie de vivre. A young Jewish composer, Kurt Weill, meets his muse, singer Lotte Lenya and…...

Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) – On Tour

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Our amazing client Tori Burgess is going out on tour (alongside literary client Meghan Tyler), in a revival of Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of). An adaptation like no other, drawing on over two-hundred years of romantic pop history this is Blood of the Young’s unique take on a beloved novel…...

Number One Fan – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 5th Sep 2019

See Joyce Falconer and David McGowan in Number One Fan at Oran Mor, written by Kim Millar and directed by April Chamberlain.

Jan McArthur is raging. Her husband just left her for a silicone-enhanced woman 20 years her junior. She’s lost her job.  Her cat…

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Frankenstein – On Tour

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Date posted: 4th Sep 2019

Natali McCleary and Greg Powrie head out on tour this autumn in Selladoor's Frankenstein, a major new production coming to venues throughout the UK. Rona Munro’s brilliant new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation…...

From Paisley to Paolo – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 2nd Sep 2019

BAA's Michael McCardie features in From Paisley to Paolo, one of Oran Mor's returning plays, coming back this September. Cast: Joshua Haynes, Michael McCardie and Saul Davidson Its 2006, Jack is 19 and was born on the same day, in the same hour, in the same hospital as…...

PPP on the BBC

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Date posted: 1st Sep 2019

Writers - seasoned and new to TV - have signed up for BBC Scotland’s televisual treatment of the acclaimed theatre scheme A Play, A Pie And A Pint.
Starting in September, the new BBC Scotland series will show six of the pub lunchtime…...

Tay Bridge – Dundee Rep

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Date posted: 27th Aug 2019

Peter Arnott's Tay Bridge opens this September at Dundee Rep, and features Barrie Hunter. On the night of Sunday December 28, 1879, the unthinkable happened. Battered by a ferocious storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed. Tay Bridge tells the poignant and unexpected stories of the suddenly interrupted passengers making…...

The Afflicted – The Scotsman Fringe First Award

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Date posted: 23rd Aug 2019

Congratulations to Amy Kennedy, Groupwork and everyone involved in The Afflicted, which has received a Fringe First Award! Given out weekly by The Scotsman, the awards commend original productions that have opened at the Fringe across August. A well-deserved win for an amazing show!...

Mouthpiece – Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award

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We're delighted for Angus Taylor , Kieran Hurley and everyone involved in Mouthpiece, which has just been awarded the 2019 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award. The award, presented annually by the Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation, is to support a New York transfer for a production from the Edinburgh Festival…...

Letters To…My Body Hair – Stellar Quines

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Date posted: 15th Aug 2019

See Joanna Tope in the latest instalment of Stellar Quines' Letters to… ; a quarterly writing opportunity where they invite letters in response to a theme. One is chosen, and then performed by a professional actor, filmed and shared on Stellar Quines’ website and social media. Letters to…My Body…...

Angus Taylor – The Stage Edinburgh Awards 2019

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Date posted: 14th Aug 2019

We're so delighted for our client, Angus Taylor, who's picked up The Stage Edinburgh Award for Mouthpiece, alongside his co-star Shauna McDonald! The accolades are given out weekly throughout the Edinburgh Fringe and celebrate outstanding performances at the festival. Angus's work in Mouthpiece - his debut performance at the Festival -…...

Misfit Warrior – theSpace on North Bridge

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See BAA's Kieran McIntosh in Stuart Saint's Misfit Warrior this August, showing at theSpace on North Bridge, Edinburgh. Electrifying synths, beats and casual choreography generate Stuart Saint’s resplendent testimonial gig, where Misfit and Warrior collide. His autobiographical story of HIV and cancer manifest a domino effect of destruction,…...

Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand – Panmure House

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BAA's Simon Macallum is part of the cast of Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand, coming to Panmure House for the Edinburgh Festival period. What would happen if the lost papers of a genius were recovered in the modern day? Four actors present a dramatisation of the life and…...

Chic Murray – A Funny Place for a Window

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Another chance to see Maureen Carr in Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window, coming to The Stand's New Town Theatre, Edinburgh. Chic Murray was the comedian’s comedian. In a career that took him from an engineer’s apprenticeship in Kincaid’s shipyard, Greenock, to the top of the…...

Red Dust Road – National Theatre of Scotland

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We're thrilled for our client Irene Allan, who's joined the cast of Red Dust Road, which premieres at the Edinburgh Festival and then goes out on tour.

“You are made up from a mixture of myth and gene. You are part fable, part porridge”

Growing up…
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A Game of Death and Chance – Gladstone’s Land, Edinburgh

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A Game of Death and Chance opens at Gladstone's Land this August, featuring BAA's Wendy Seager as Caledonia and Kevin Lennon as Daniel Defoe. In this unique theatre experience, audiences meet characters including a publican, an investor and a spy who’ll share details with them from Edinburgh’s…...

Tartuffe – Edinburgh Assembly Halls

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Joyce Falconer features in Tartuffe, opening at Edinburgh's Assembly Halls on the 14th of August. Liz Lochhead's un-PC, rude, rhyming cut of Moliere's classic relocated to a 1940s Scottish living room. Conman Tartuffe, with his perfect mark in the gullible paterfamilias, will ruin them all. Unless, together, trophy…...

The Afflicted – Summerhall

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BAA's Amy Kennedy appears in Groupwork's The Afflicted, coming to Summerhall for the Edinburgh Festival period. Inspired by real events, this new dance-theatre piece tells the story of a mysterious illness that infects a group of young women in small-town America. As the girls and their families search…...

Bea Webster – The Stage Debut Awards Nomination

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Date posted: 8th Aug 2019

So many congratulations to our client Bea Webster, who's been nominated for Best Actress in a Play at The Stage Debut Awards, for her role in Mother Courage and Her Children. Playing Kattrin opposite Pauline McLynn's Mother Courage, Bea garnered rave reviews from critics in Red Ladder's immersive…...

Crocodile Fever – Traverse Theatre

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Date posted: 5th Aug 2019

Our client Meghan Tyler's Crocodile Fever has its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre in August and is one of the most anticipated shows of this year's Edinburgh Festival period. Northern Ireland, 1989. A farmhouse window smashes, and rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her…...

Mouthpiece – Traverse Theatre

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Date posted: 2nd Jul 2019

We're thrilled to announce our client Angus Taylor has joined the cast of Kieran Hurley's Mouthpiece, returning to the Traverse for the 2019 Festival Season. Salisbury Crags. Twilight. A woman takes a step forward into the air. A teenage boy pulls her back. Two lives are changed forever.…...

Òran Mór Summer Panto – Dracula: Revamped

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Written by John and James Kielty and directed by Tony Cownie, this year's Oran Mor Summer Panto is Dracula Revamped, and features BAA's Angela Darcy as Dame Igorette. DRACULA IS PAN-BREID! Or IS he?  For MINA is turning into a VAMPIRE and JONATHAN is worried.  Returning to Transylvania,…...

The Ugly One – Tron Theatre

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Date posted: 1st Jul 2019

BAA's Martin McCormick plays Lette in the Scottish premiere of The Ugly One, coming to the Tron Theatre in July. Lette thought he was normal.   He’s the inventor of an incredible new electric plug but when his boss tells him he can’t go to a convention to announce…...

Bard in the Botanics

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Date posted: 25th Jun 2019

Scotland's biggest and best-loved Shakespeare Festival, Bard in the Botanics hosts a range of productions every summer in the beautiful and historic surroundings of Glasgow's Botanic Gardens. The 2019 season, Muse of Fire, features BAA's Stephanie McGregor as Rosalind in As You Like It and as Ophelia in…

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Dusty Won’t Play – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 17th Jun 2019

Catch BAA's Kevin Lennon in Dusty Won't Play, one of Oran Mor's returning plays this June. It’s 1964 and Dusty Springfield is at the height of her fame, scoring hits in the UK, US and around the world. On a tour of South Africa she refuses to play…...

What The Animals Say – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 3rd Jun 2019

David Ireland's What The Animals Say comes to Oran Mor this June, and features BAA's Kevin Lennon.

The waiting room for the Stranraer to Belfast ferry. Two old schoolfriends bump into each other. Jimmy Culver is an out of work actor on his way to the biggest audition…...

A-Z of Dundee – On Tour

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Date posted: 28th May 2019

BAA's Ross Allan and Barrie Hunter are part of the cast of A-Z of Dundee,  a brand new anarchic, fast-paced, (and mostly true) history of Dundee, touring a selection of venues around Scotland. Quite possible no one telt ye it's where William Wallace bagged his first Sassenach? The…...

Yellow is The Colour of Sunshine – On Tour

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Yellow is the Colour of Sunshine is a charming new play about friends who learn to communicate about their feelings, and features BAA's Connor Bryson. Award winning writer Brendan Murray collaborated with theatre company Tutti Frutti to produce a show full of beautiful multi-coloured delights,…

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Tír na nÓg – A Play, A Pie and a Pint

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Written by Dave Anderson, Tír na nÓg comes to Oran Mor this May and features BAA's Annie Grace.

Tír na nÓg is “The Land Of The Young” in Celtic Mythology, where, if you’re heroic, or lucky enough, you go never to grow old.  If you want…

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Cool Dads – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 24th May 2019

Written by BAA's Simon Macallum , directed by Neil Leiper and featuring Natali McCleary and David McGowan, Cool Dads returns to Oran Mor this Spring, part of their season of the most popular plays from past seasons. Saturday morning. First round, Under 14’s Scottish Cup. Angie, Danny and…...

Chris McQueer’s Hings – BBC iPlayer

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Date posted: 8th May 2019

Scottish author Chris McQueer turns his attentions to the screen with this adaptation of his book Hings, coming to BBC iPlayer this April. Episode one, Sammy's Bag of Whelks, features BAA's Paul McCole, and episode 3, Night Bus, features Natali McCleary and Joyce Falconer. Catch all of…...

Off Grid – BBC Radio 4

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BAA's Tori Burgess plays Ava in Off Grid, a new play for BBC Radio 4, recorded on location in Scotland. Written by Ben Lewis, Off Grid is a quirky and dark psychological drama about a young woman who joins a zero impact community in the remote Scottish Highlands, where things become increasingly…...

Toy Plastic Chicken – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Uma Nada-Rajah's Toy Plastic Chicken comes to Oran Mor this spring and features BAA's Neshla Caplan and David James Kirkwood. At Edinburgh Airport, a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. A woman is screened for domestic radicalisation, while her interrogators decide to perform violent and radical act of their own. …...

Casablanca – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 18th Apr 2019

Morag Fullerton's Casablanca returns this spring having won the People’s Choice Vote, nominated by audiences as the play they'd most like to see return to the Oran Mor stage. Featuring BAA's Kevin Lennon, this lovingly disrespectful homage to one of the classic films of all time was first performed…...

Hula – BBC Scotland

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Date posted: 16th Apr 2019

A hip-shaking story about liberation, Hula is directed by BAA's Robin Haig, and has its TV premiere on the new BBC Scotland channel on Thursday 18th April, as part of the Next Big Thing project. Hula is a gently humorous drama about unhappy divorcee Clara. Reluctant to engage within…...

Unspotted Snow – On Tour

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Written by BAA's Peter Arnott, Unspotted Snow is based on the ill-fated 1845 Sir John Franklin expedition to discover the North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and its extraordinary 170-year legacy. Set partly on the barren ice floes of the Arctic and partly in the stultifying…...

Locker Room Talk – On Tour

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Following overwhelming response from previous runs at the Traverse Theatre, Abbey Theatre, Latitude Festival and Scottish Parliament, Locker Room Talk returns to continue a conversation about misogyny and masculinity, and features BAA's Maureen Carr. Created in response to the Donald Trump’s infamous “grab them by the pussy” comment, Locker Room…...

Lost At Sea – On Tour

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“The untold war o man versus the elements. Oh, I’ll tell it tae ye. The tale oh the fishermen fightin the ocean. Yer in for a rough ride.”

 Morna Young’s first play Lost at Sea, written in 2012, was inspired by the loss…

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Wild Rose – On General Release

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Wild Rose goes on general release on 12th April and features BAA's Natali McCleary and David McGowan. Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make…...

A Ladder To The Stars – On Tour

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Date posted: 9th Apr 2019

Visible Fiction's A Ladder To The Stars returns this spring and features BAA's Amy McGregor. Way up in the deep blue night sky, a twinkling star hears a little girl’s birthday wish . . . she wishes she could dance with the stars. Wanting to make this wish come true,…...

What Girls Are Made Of – On Tour

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Date posted: 8th Apr 2019

Cora Bissett's What Girls Are Made Of is returning, going out on tour from 9th April and features BAA's Simon Donaldson and Harry Ward. It’s 1992. In a small town in Fife, a girl is busting out of her skin to get out into the world and see…...

Lion Lion – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 5th Apr 2019

BAA's Selina Boyack stars alongside Keith Fleming & Nick Ikunda in Sue Glover's Lion Lion, on at Oran Mor's A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Monday 8th April. George & Joy Adamson, like many others before and since, loved the animal kingdom as much, probably more, than their fellow…...

Aye, Elvis – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 28th Mar 2019

After a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018, Morna Young's Aye, Elvis returns to Oran Mor as part of their 500th Play Celebration season.

Written by BAA's Morna Young and starring Joyce Falconer and David McGowan, Aye, Elvis tells the story of Joan…

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Ten Feet Tall Theatre

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On a Midsummer’s night; lovers get lost, fairies feud and a troupe of actors rehearse a play…well try to. A forest where the fairies rule and mischievous Puck ensures the course of true love is anything but smooth. With comedy, romance, and Sprites of the night, Ten Feet Tall…...

Shetland – BBC One

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Date posted: 15th Mar 2019

The fifth and final season of Shetland airs on BBC One this spring, and features BAA's Jenni Keenan Green and Natali McCleary in a brand-new murder case for DI Jimmy Perez. A severed hand has washed up on the beach, while a young man’s head has been discovered badly…...

Still Game – BBC Scotland

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Iconic BBC comedy Still Game will premiere its ninth - and final series - on the new BBC Scotland channel and features BAA's Maureen Carr, Kevin Lennon and Joanna Tope.
The six-part comedy series, made by BBC Studios, will debut…...

Chic Murray: A Funny Place For A Window – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Date posted: 14th Mar 2019

Playing as part of Oran Mor's celebration of 500 shows, Chic Murray: A Funny Place for A Window returns to A Play, A Pie and A Pint on 25th March and features BAA's Maureen Carr.

The “Comedian’s Comedian” Chic Murray passed away in Edinburgh on the night of…...

Dear Europe – National Theatre of Scotland/SWG3

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Challenged by the National Theatre of Scotland to explore their relationship with Europe, some of Scotland’s most adventurous artists and theatre makers will present their powerful, playful and provocative responses in Dear Europe - one night only at Glasgow's SWG3. In moving through shadows, Nima Séne and Daniel Hughes will…...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – London

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We're delighted to announce that our client Ryan J Mackay will be staying on in the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for another year, this time taking on the roles of James Potter Jr and Assistant Movement Director. The Year 4 cast has just begun rehearsals,…...

Peeling – On Tour

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Date posted: 6th Mar 2019

Presented by Taking Flight Theatre, Peeling by Kaite O’Reilly tours across Wales, Oxford & Manchester and features BAA's Bea Webster. In shadow, never centre stage, 3 performers await their brief moment in the light. Their words have been buried in dust, through the long corridor of time. We…...

Coming Clean: Barbara – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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BAA's Wendy Seager takes to the stage at Oran Mor in Coming Clean: Barbara, a one-woman show written by Alma Cullen and directed by Marilyn Imrie. Barbara once willingly gave up her dead-end job to nurture the careers of husband Andy, now a police Superintendent, and son Gavin,…...

Pondlife – On Tour

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Date posted: 25th Feb 2019

Following success in Australia and New York, Catherine Wheels are staging Pondlife for Scottish schools, with BAA's Martin McCormick. A passionate one-man show that vividly illustrates the high stakes of classroom power play, Pondlife movingly explores the lasting legacy of childhood friendships. Moving school is never easy. When class…...