The Edinburgh Festival and Fringe is back, and our clients will be performing in a wide variety of exciting shows!
MEDEA – featuring Adura Onashile, Bea Webster, Pauline Lockhart and Wendy Seager
Runs 10-28 Aug at The Hub – For tickets and more info click here
ABOUT MONEY – featuring Michael McCardie
Runs 3-28 Aug at Summerhall – For tickets and more info click here
WILF – featuring Irene Allan
Runs 5-28 Aug at Traverse Theatre – For tickets and more info click here
MUSTER STATION: LEITH – featuring Paul McCole, Pauline Goldsmith
Runs 15-24 Aug at Leith Academy – For tickets and more info click here
THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART – featuring Gavin Jon Wright
Runs 3-28 Aug at The Lyceum – For tickets and more info click here
A LADDER TO THE STARS – featuring Amy McGregor
Runs 3-29 Aug at Gilded Balloon Teviot – For tickets and more info click here
I’m Dissolving My Love in a Bath of Acid – A Play, A Pie & A Pint
Irene Allan features in I’m Dissolving My Love in a Bath of Acid, a new play by DC Jackson coming to A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
April married David John in prison where he was serving 15 life sentences for a string of grizzly murders. Now he’s been released on a technicality and he’s coming to live with her as man and wife. Her sister May isn’t pleased – she has to sleep in the next room! DC Jacksons first new play in 8 years is a schlocky romp where John Waters meets Forbes Mason, with gags and gore galore.
Runs Mon, 07 March, 2022 — Sat, 12 March, 2022 @ Oran Mor / The Traverse Theatre
For tickets and more info click here
Wilf – Traverse TheatreSomething different this Christmas? Irene Allan will appear in Wilf at the Traverse Theatre from Wed 8 – Fri 24 Dec. More information and tickets can be found, here.
This riotous and heartfelt new play from James Ley (Love Song to Lavender Menace), directed by the Traverse’s Artistic Director Gareth Nicholls (Ulster American, Crocodile Fever), takes audiences on a hilarious and unapologetic ride through Scotland as Calvin and Wilf attempt to escape loneliness, cope with mental illness and learn to love themselves, with the help of one another.
The Tale of Typhoid Mary – Play, Pie, and a PintBAA clients Irene Allan and David Rankine feature in The Tale of Typhoid Mary at Oran Mor Play, Pie, and a Pint.
An epidemic of typhoid (a disease of the slums) among New York’s wealthy. A pioneering virologist traces the infection to Irish cook Mary Mallon. But Mary has no symptoms and denies the link. The state decides to seize and imprison her. But Mary won’t go without a fight, in this strange-but-true drama inspired by history’s most infamous “super-spreader”.
Performances running Mon 04 – Sat 09 Oct. More information and tickets can be found, here.
Camino – A Play, A Pie, and A Pint
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 in the Spanish Pyrenees. It’s a treacherous six-day climb – gales, blizzards, snakes, bears, parasites and bandits. Helen and Donald are celebrating 25 years of perfect marriage, Mo and Ken have just about survived ten. What can possibly go right?
Camino runs at Oran Mor from 10 Feb – 15 Feb.
For tickets and more info, click here
Red Dust Road – National Theatre of ScotlandWe’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.
Growing up in 70s’ Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossomed into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decided to find her birth parents…
From Nairn to Lagos, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions. Discover how we are shaped by the folk songs we hear as much as by the cells in our bodies.
Opening at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2019, and at HOME, Manchester in September 2019
Touring to Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling and Eden Court Theatre, Inverness in autumn 2019.
Written by Jackie Kay. Adapted by Tanika Gupta. Directed by Dawn Walton.
A National Theatre of Scotland and HOME, Manchester co-production. Developed with the support of Macrobert Arts Centre.
For tickets and more info, click here
Hi, My Name is Ben – Dundee Rep
Hi, My Name is Ben is a new musical by award-winning writing partnership Noisemaker (Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie) currently in development with Goodspeed Musicals, Connecticut and Dundee Rep, and features Brennan Artist Irene Allan. Catch the show early in its development on Sunday 30 September in this concert performance in collaboration with Scottish Ensemble.
“Hi, my name is Ben. I can’t talk but I can hear”
The true story of one ordinary old man and his extraordinary life. From his tiny, single-room on East 74th Street in New York City, Bernhardt Wichmann III spoke to and changed the lives of those around him; reconnecting his neighbours to values of friendship, humanity and happiness. And he did all this without speaking. Ben was a mute. His life is a story of how one man endured tragedy, illness, success and defeat, before finally encountering a miracle.
For tickets and more info, click here.
Irene Allan wins The Stage Edinburgh Award 2018 for Coriolanus VanishesThe Stage Edinburgh Awards recognise outstanding performances at the Edinburgh Fringe and have been awarded throughout August, with winners including individual performers and entire ensembles. This year, Brennan Artist Irene Allan took home an award for her stunning performance in David Leddy’s Coriolanus Vanishes – congratulations, Irene!
Coriolanus Vanishes – Fire Exit @ Traverse
A tense, suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller. Chris experienced three deaths, one after another. She’s in prison awaiting trial. But she doesn’t exactly know why. From multi award-winning ‘genius’ (Scotsman), ‘maverick’ (Guardian) and ‘Fringe institution’ (Independent) David Leddy, creator of hits Last Bordello, Sub Rosa, Susurrus and Long Live Little Knife. Contrasting bold theatricality, haunting music and razor-sharp slashes of light, it’s a complex descent through passion, shame, devastation and many, many forms of madness. Just beneath the surface of everyday life there’s complete anarchy lying in wait. ‘Exquisite’ **** (Guardian). ‘Powerful’ **** (Scotsman). ‘Meticulous’ **** (Stage).
Performances run August 2-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-26 at the Traverse Theatre
Times vary click here for booking details
The Persians – A Play, A Pie and A PintThis week’s A Play, A Pie and A Pint is THE PERSIANS, written by our very own Meghan Tyler and starring Irene Allan.
“The Ancient Persians: when it came to major decisions they all had to agree when they were pissed, and they all had to agree when they were hideously hungover.”
An online petition to bring back the death penalty is rattling the nation, and the government must respond.
A Conservative, a Scottish Nationalist, and a Democratic Unionist meet over tea to discuss…
But what happens when the port is cracked open?
Presented in association with Traverse Theatre.
The Last Bordello – Fire ExitThe Last Bordello is an ingeniously fiendish labyrinth that gets more puzzling and suspenseful with every wrong turn – think Margaret Atwood meets David Lynch. An absurd, sensual and provocative parable about trust and truth, domination and devotion, fact and fiction.
Featuring BAA clients Irene Allan and David Rankine at The Tron Theatre and The Traverse from the 10th of February until the 24th.
More information can be found here.
Cinderella – The Citizens TheatreFull of silliness, and slapstick, music and fun, this is the perfect choice for families looking for alternative festive entertainment this Christmas.
It’s nearly time for the Prince’s ball, but poor Cinderella is working her fingers to the bone in the cold and dark kitchens thanks to her cruel and greedy step-sisters’ nasty tricks. Luckily, Cinderella has the help of some new friends, and a little magic, to help her get to the ball and win the heart of the Prince. But does her heart’s true desire lie closer to home?
The run begins on the 28th November. Featuring BAA client, Irene Allan.
More information can be found here.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre – Summer Season 2017Irene Allan continues to impress in Pitlochry Festival Theatre productions MARY ROSE, HIGH SOCIETY, PEOPLE and THE RULING CLASS.
Season Ends 14th October 2017.
The Course of True LoveIrene Allan can be seen in David Leddy/Fire Exit’s new touring production ‘The Course of True Love’ from 20th September – 16th October 2016
Celia and Oliver are in the world’s most expensive hotel, drunk on the world’s most expensive champagne. It’s not good. They have thirty minutes to make up their minds about a risky proposal that could tear their lives apart. A powerful politician waits downstairs for their decision. Will they retreat to the daily disillusionment of running a failing charity? Or will they find the courage to reveal their true feelings and speak truth to power?
For more information on dates and venues click here