Boo Hewerdine and Yvonne Lyon’s ‘Things Found in Books’ project is a book and album of songs written in response to a notice board in Culzean Castle’s second-hand bookshop, which has been littered with things that have dropped out of books. Letters, notes, photographs, old receipts, postcards, and all fragments of people’s lives have been lovingly collected and kept on a board on the wall amongst the bookshelves.

Boo Hewerdine is an acclaimed, award-winning English singer-songwriter now living and working in Glasgow. He wrote the song ‘Patience of Angels’, which Eddi Reader enjoyed international success with in 1995.

Yvonne Lyon is among the UK’s brightest and best singer-songwriters. Her most recent album Growing Wild is her tenth solo studio album release. Yvonne consistently combines poignant lyrics with strong, creative melodies, demonstrating a voice that can be both fragile and intense. She has guested on live sessions with Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2 and recently completed a master’s degree in Songwriting and Performance from the University of West Scotland.

Together, Boo and Yvonne have formed an inimitable songwriting partnership, weaving these ephemeral stories with their own, creating an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing.

Mairi's adventures with Scotland's most famous song. Delivered with her trademark wit and unparalleled musical ability, this funny and heartfelt show resonates with universal truths. As we learn about the song and its history, we journey with Mairi as she negotiates the politics of childhood friendships; the challenges of romantic relationships and the highs and lows of success and failure. Blending storytelling, animation and movement with music composed with David Gray and Mairi Campbell this five-star show brings Scotland's most famous song to life. Co-created and directed by Kath Burlinson.

Scottish multi-instrumentalist David Allison (renowned for The Island Tapes and live scores at film festivals) returns with his most immersive show yet.

Almost 50 years in the making, the origin of Vagabondage Musical lies with a Scottish hitchhiker struggling to get a lift somewhere in central France until two art school students offer him a place in their cramped Citroen 2CV van. The chance encounter sparked Allison’s lifelong collaboration with French artist Cyrille Pain. In real time, Allison builds rich, layered soundscapes on guitar while Pain’s digital art unfolds on screen. The audience is plunged into a virtual gallery of light and sound, witnessing the complete creative journey unfold. This unique, transportive experience fuses folk roots, multimedia, and pure, visual artistry - the perfect escape from the January blues.

Eadarainn a’ Chruit: Between Us the Harp is the show of the second album from Scottish harper Karen Marshalsay. Connecting the Scots, Scottish Gaelic and Irish traditions, it also celebrates the harp’s rich presence in Scottish music.

Karen is one of only a handful of players who specialise in all three harps in the Scottish tradition: the modern lever harp, the wire-strung clarsach of the Gaels and the bray harp from the renaissance and baroque periods with its distinctive sitar-like buzz.

With a playing style that is deeply connected to the piping tradition, she has worked with musicians from India, Africa and Paraguay, appeared as a featured soloist with the Russian String Orchestra, and currently plays with long-established Scottish group The Whistlebinkies.

She is joined here by her long-time colleagues who appear on Eadarainn a’ Chruit: Between Us the Harp, Scottish harp doyenne Alison Kinnaird, piper-Gaelic singer Allan MacDonald, singer, flautist and tin whistle master Cathal McConnell, and fiddler-violist Kathryn Nicoll to perform tunes and songs from the album and more!

Profound, narrative-driven songwriting from Portland, Oregon. Jeffrey Martin is a critically acclaimed American singer-songwriter and folk artist from Portland, Oregon. He is celebrated for his profound, narrative-driven songwriting, which has been likened to a blend of folk, Americana, and literary short stories. Before becoming a full-time musician in 2016, Martin spent several years as a high school English teacher, a profession he left to "chase his dreams at all cost."

This background is reflected in his lyrics, which are noted for their deep insight into the human condition, often focusing on the struggles and quiet dignity of people on the margins of society. Critics have called his songs "beautiful, sparse, and utterly devastating," with one saying his lyrics "read like Raymond Carver stories."

27 individual interviews. 1 shared story. Burnout is a feeling some of us know all too well, but how can it be confronted? And is it here for the long-run? Burnout: A Verbatim Play explores the psychological and physical impacts of burnout in education, healthcare, activism, and more. Ellen Bradbury interviewed 27 people about their real experiences of being burnt out. Her findings? That these stories are both all too familiar and unspoken. This brand new production will be directed by Emma Ruse, the Chief Executive of Framework Theatre, and brought to the stage by an ensemble of Scotland's most exciting early-career theatre-makers.

Auntie is a sweet old dear. All she wants is to regale us with tales of dear old Blighty, but her body is falling to bloody bits. Oh dear. Somebody better clean that up...! AUNTIE EMPIRE is an outrageous satire on Britain and the grotesque absurdity of her imperialist self-regard. After conquering the screen as a short film co-directed by Niamh McKeown (BBC/Hulu’s DINOSAUR )and slaying Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 and Manipulate 2026, Auntie has gathered us to relive and celebrate our glorious shared past, but unfortunately she also has some tragic, terrible, and most pressing news. And she needs your help. An absurd and rambunctious solo show blending bouffon, satire and audience interaction, AUNTIE EMPIRE is a messy, hilarious and timely lampoon of the myths of nationhood.

“My choir was Jesse and Mr Aziz and Frank and Mrs Singh and Isaac and sherrie and Connie and Gisela and Kamal and... That’s who it was. Now it’s just me.” When Claire, a priest and choir leader, survives a mass shooting in her church, she embarks on a desperate search for answers that will ultimately bring her face to face with the attacker. David greig’s modern classic returns in a bold new staging by wonder Fools (The Kelton Hill Fair, Oran, 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War). Featuring a live community choir, every performance becomes unique – powerful, uplifting, and rooted in the place where it is staged. Described as “heartfelt and haunting The stage, the events invites audiences to share in a story about resilience, forgiveness, and the extraordinary power of community to heal after tragedy.

"It’s easy for you to accuse me now but you don’t understand. Everyone lived like we did! Well maybe not everyone, everyone. But… I wasn’t any worse than anyone else."

The not-too-distant future. A world where the air is unbreathable. A jury of twelve angry
teenagers. A chance to put the adults on trial for the devastating damage they have done to the planet.

Can they deliver justice or are they just out for revenge?

Inventively theatrical, revolutionary, and savagely funny, Dawn King’s play challenges us to
imagine the ways we might be held accountable for how we are living our lives.

“I am not a part of the story you tried to write
I am the story
And it ends when I say so.”

Everyone knows how Jason won the Golden Fleece - everyone knows how he became a hero for all time - and everyone know the part his wife, Medea, played in creating his legend - don't they?

Erased from the narrative - abandoned by her husband for a new wife and a new life - left isolated and alone in a city where she does not and cannot belong - Medea begins to plot revenge - a terrible, bloody revenge that will send a howl of rage echoing through the ages.

The award-winning production of this thrilling Greek tragedy returns re-imagined to tour Scotland's stages.

"Starring Nicole Cooper in the title role, Kathy McKean's powerful new version of Euripides' Medea burns with rage and rips at the heart" (Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman)

With bold theatrical innovation and immersive world-building typical of Vanishing Point and Katapult, What I’m Here For is a fast-moving fusion of new European writing and visual imagination, which explores the tragi-comic collateral of hospitals and human choices.

Flora stands on the roof, smoking. As the snow begins to fall, she reflects on the night just passed. During her shift, Flora told a lie so convincingly that she frightened herself. Was she placing compassion before truth, or was she exposing a darkness within herself? As lights flicker on and the city awakes, she travels back in time. Back to the chaos-fuelled, fluorescent-lit corridors of Ward 7. Back into the room of the girl she lied to.

Multilingual, with surtitles integrated into the design, What I’m Here For is an international collaboration created by the teams that brought you Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey and The Insider.

“In a factory like this, you’re part of a team. You’re a family.”

Faced with the threat of their factory closing, and with 240 jobs on the line, there’s no way the women of the Lee Jeans factory are going down without a fight.

They barricade the doors, take a stand against corporate greed and stage a sit-in that lasts for 7 long months.

Developed in conversation with some of the key women involved in the strike, this new play is full of authentic details that bring this significant moment in Scottish history to life.

Played out to a live 80’s soundtrack, this is the true story of the gallus Greenock girls who
fought a battle against injustice that thrust them onto the world stage.

From an idea conceived by Paul English and Frances Poet.

Something's wrong. Baby Mash-Up knows there is something adrift, but she can't pin it down. The seams of time and space are splitting, and she wants to figure out what's going on and - most importantly - how she ended up here. This is both Troubles-era Ireland and also really, really not; this is a field, a laundrette, a bingo hall, and a night sky. This is a question about how we make sense of ourselves in a time when our private myths and stories no longer feel true, and how the ordinary can fuse with the extraordinary to reveal a new reality. And yes. There'll be tap dancing. Naturally.

Using Baby Mash-up, what on Earth are you doing? as a starting point for discussion, stillpoint presents an opportunity to hear readings of work not often presented and to openly discuss innovation in new writing.

Led by a presentation of Soz Redland’s ground-breaking David and the Hedgehog, we’ll be diving into the questions, concerns, and dreams that drive the writers ‘breaking the rules’. In this play, David saves a hedgehog from certain death. They swap places, and something is fundamentally altered in the order of the universe. This is a poignant and gloriously funny play about settling in our own strangeness and learning how to not feel prickly in our own skin – one not to be missed.

"Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity?
They put them in the same cage."

Meet Tom. He’s single, sorted (so he thinks) and spectacularly uninterested in romance. Enter Amy. One new job, six pints, and a questionable kebab later, and suddenly they’re… dating?

Neither of them knows how this happened, neither know if this is what they want, but they are both still carrying enough emotional baggage to sink a small ship.

A fast, funny, painfully relatable rom-com about two people who might just be perfect for
each other – if they can ever get over their past. In a world of dodgy office flings and terrible exes who never quite stay exed, My Romantic History asks: if you haven’t met ‘the one’ by thirty, are you the problem – or is it everyone else?

Everybody remembers their first love. Few survive their second.