Ken Wilson
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Oliver!
Lionel Bart’s award-winning 1960s musical comes to touching and moving life in a hearty non-professional production
One Man, Two Guv’nors
An intelligent, side-splittingly funny comedy that crackles with rudeness and mischief.
Dead Simple
Detective Super Roy Grace is under pressure to find a missing bridegroom in this soapy thriller.
Briefs: the Second Coming
A refreshing, rackety and raucous evening of drag from Down Under with all the trimmings.
Scotch and Soda
A night of traditional circus acrobatics and antics humorously and thrillingly reinvented with a steampunk vibe.
The Devil Masters
A safe drawing room black comedy as two advocates take the law into their own hands with disastrous results.
Slava’s Snowshow
Sadness, joy, profundity and deep silliness make this a thrilling and mind-boggling event from the legendary Russian clown and his troupe.
Les Misérables
A wonderful and under-seen cinéma vérité-style adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel, presented in a sparkling restoration.
The Kite Runner
The harrowing but inspirational story of two boys from different backgrounds growing up in 1970s Afghanistan and how their lives mirror the demise of their country.
Inspector Nardone
An enjoyable and stylish policier set in post-war Italy amid the black markets and food shortages.
Filmed in Supermarionation
An absorbing documentary about the glamour and danger of the 1960s zeitgeist for the under-tens, as captured by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
Joe
In the badass Texan backwoods, a chance to act as a father figure goes some way toward redeeming an angry gangmaster and the boy he hopes to save.
Top Hat
A dizzying, glamorous song-and-dance musical based on the 1930s movie starring Fred and Ginger.
Sunset Song
A story of family turmoil in rural Aberdeenshire, full of heart-stopping poetry and grit.
Regeneration
A polished play, adapted from Pat Barker’s celebrated novels, that’s not afraid to tackle the horrors of WW1.
Choir
Francis is the reincarnation of Judy Garland, he remembers every movie take from her life and every mistake from his.
Alison Jackson: A Story in the Public Domain (La Trashiata)
Royal and celebrity lookalikes in the flesh lip-sync to re-worded arias in a demented satire.
Anorak of Fire
A gentle exposition of the byways and low points of trainspotting as seen from the railway sidings of Yorkshire.
13 Sunken Years
Two of Scotland’s top theatre companies collaborate in a remarkable play about inter-generational conflict.
