Robbie Jack

Stones in His Pockets comes to Tron Theatre

Marie Jones play pits rural County Kerry against Hollywood

Marie Jones may be one of Ireland’s most lauded living playwrights, but her works remain underperformed in the UK. In fact, Stones in His Pockets – which won Olivier and Tony Awards in 2001 – has never had a Scottish production. But thanks to the…

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Paranoid Orwellian bureaucracy has comically sinister effect

A paranoid story of Orwellian bureaucracy played for comically sinister effect, this short piece feels unfinished. We’re introduced to two officers from the Witness Protection Programme, going about their daily business in a warehouse; the boredom, the…

The Wasp Factory

REVIVAL Regal Theatre, Bathgate, Thu 15 May, then touring Our fractured, alienating and individualist society is bound to produce some disquieting anomalies among its youth. In a world where the first priority is self, our capacity to empathise with…