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There are great theatre shows on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.

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Sunset Song
Date Location
An adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's seminal novel by Alastair Cording, directed by Kenny Ireland.
16 Sep–20 Sep 7.30; Wed & Sat 2.30 & 7.30 King's Theatre, Glasgow
Singin' I'm Not a Billy He's a Tim
Date Location
Des Dillon's classic anti-sectarian play sees two Rangers and Celtic fans locked up together in a cell for the duration of an Old Firm match.
16 Sep 8.00 Ryan Centre, Stranraer
19 Sep 7.30 Arts Guild Theatre, Greenock
20 Sep–21 Sep 8.00 SECC, Glasgow
A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Sweet Home Balmaha
Date Location
New play about a has been Scottish rocker and his son, Elvis. By Tom Urie. Repeated on Wednesday night as A Dinner, A Drama and a Dram (£25, includes dinner).
15 Sep–20 Sep 12.30 Òran Mór, Glasgow
Amada
Date Location
The directorial debut of Scottish singer, musician and actor Cora Bissett ('Red Road'), 'Amada' is an adaptation of Isabel Allende's short story about dignity in prostitution. Winner of the Arches Award for Stage Directors.
14 Sep–15 Sep 7.30 Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Mother Courage and her Children
Date Location
Bertolt Brecht's political tale of human struggle and pragmatism in the face of tragedy.
3 Sep–27 Sep, not Sundays, Mondays 7.30 (27 Sep 2.30 & 7.30) Dundee Rep, Dundee
Violent Night
Date Location
A 'perverted carnival' set amid the violence, debauchery, loneliness and repetition of the modern British city, looking at that very British ideal of 'living for the weekend'. 'Part of Arches LIVE!'
18 Sep–20 Sep 9.30; Thu 10.00 The Arches, Glasgow
The Chronicles of Irania
Date Location
One-woman show (starring former NTS Young Company member Maryam Hamdi and written by Catrin Evans of Petrified Paradise) set in a transfigured, mystical Iran. 'Part of Arches LIVE!'
18 Sep–20 Sep 9.00 The Arches, Glasgow
Slick
Date Location
On the outskirts of town a destitute tenement looms above the only crude oil supply in Glasgow, a discovery that's about to rip its tiny, impoverished community apart. Literally. Broad new comedy from Glasgow-based company Vox Motus, using padded puppet bodies operated by two performers.
16 Sep–20 Sep 8.00 Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Lost Property
Date Location
New theatre work about the missing object people leave behind them, by Sacha Kyle. 'Part of Arches LIVE!'
18 Sep–20 Sep 6.00, 6.30, 7.00, 8.00, 8.30 & 9.00 The Arches, Glasgow
Foot Washing For the Sole
Date Location
Adrian Howells - out of drag - offers to wash your feet as theatre therapy in a one-on-one encounter. 'Part of Arches LIVE!'
18 Sep–20 Sep (Times vary) The Arches, Glasgow
Home to Neverland
Date Location
A new show from Splinters Productions, telling the story of JM Barrie - the lad from Kirriemuir who became the world's leading playwright.
20 Sep Mill Theatre, Thurso
La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice)
Date Location
Theatrical installation originally created by Jean Cocteau but tailored to the unique qualities of the Arches - a mini-tragedy played out without actors. 'Part of Arches LIVE!'.
18 Sep–19 Sep 6.00 The Arches, Glasgow
Arcadia
Date Location
Stoppard's play is a historical detective story that finds joy in the unpredictability of human desire. With dashing wit an academic hack desperately tries to solve the mysterious events at a country house. This play will be part of the revolving roster.
5 Jun–18 Oct (Times vary) Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry
Arrow in the Eye
Date Location
Multimedia work in which a girl falls in love with a tiny chair, by current GSA MFA student Shelly Nadashi, better known as a visual artist. 'Part of Arches LIVE'
18 Sep 10.00 The Arches, Glasgow
Don Juan
Date Location
A new adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's original source text directed by Jeremy Raison and Maxine Braham. The Spanish legend of master seducer Don Juan has been interpreted by everyone from Mozart to Johnny Depp, but this 21st century version focuses on what happens when a woman refuses to succumb to his charms.
17 Sep–3 Oct, not Sundays, Mondays 7.30 (4 Oct 2.30 & 7.30) Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow
Fleeto
Date Location
Paddy Cunneen's short play, inspired by the Iliad, draws on contemporary Glasgow's so-called 'knife culture'. A hard-hitting contemporary re-invention of the Greek tragic form.
16 Sep–17 Sep 8.00 Perth Theatre, Perth
18 Sep–19 Sep 7.30 (19 Sep 2.30 & 7.30) Byre Theatre, St Andrews
20 Sep 7.30 Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
Habeas Corpus
Date Location
Alan Bennet's play acts as an outlandishly comic portrait of 1970s Brighton, a city where the culture of free love is well and truly in swing. This play will be in the revolving roster.
29 May–18 Oct (Times vary) Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry
Little Vikings Are Never Lost
Date Location
An original theatrical installation, inspired by sweeping Norwegian landscapes and contemporary Scandinavian music, where the audience inhabit an installed other-world. 'Part of Arches LIVE'
18 Sep–20 Sep 7.10 The Arches, Glasgow
She Stoops to Conquer
Date Location
Pitlochry Theatre take on the ribald Regency comedy of errors, manners and marriages.
22 May–18 Oct (Times vary) Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry
Cria
Date Location
Megan Barker and Neil Docherty, the team behind last year's Traverse Fringe hit 'Pit', have created a dark, complex fusion of fantasy and realism that dances around the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. 'Part of Arches LIVE!'
18 Sep–20 Sep 7.15 The Arches, Glasgow
Women On The Verge Of A T-Junction
Date Location
Three women, three generations, three agendas, and one lapse of concentration are all it takes to reduce a grown AA man to tears. A new comedy by 'Bold Girls' author Rhona Munro, about a collision that will change their lives forever.
18 Sep 7.30 Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas
Macbeth
Date Location
A revival of the final ever show at Mull Little Theatre, a highly acclaimed production of the Shakespearean Scottish play.
18 Sep 7.30 Aros Hall, Isle of Mull
Tosca
Date Location
Puccini's tale of jealousy and passion between the two doomed lovers, sung in Italian with English supertitles.
18 Sep 7.30 His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
Treasure Island
Date Location
A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's swash-buckling adventure story.
20 Sep 2.30 Macrobert, Stirling

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