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A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Limbo/ Zarraberri
Date Location
Two plays for the price of one this lunchtime, with new half-hour shorts by Victor Iriarte and Maite Perez Larumbe. Repeated on Wednesday night as A Dinner, A Drama and a Dram (£25, includes dinner).
12 May–17 May 12.30 Òran Mór, Glasgow
All My Sons: No Mean Company
Date Location
No Mean Company present Arthur Millerr's timeless classic 'All My Sons'. Set in post WWII America, it tells the heartbreaking story of Joe Keller.
16 May–17 May 8.00 Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld
The Drawer Boy
Date Location
1970's Canada and two Ontarian farmers are visited by a young actor seeking hands-on research for a new play. An award-winning play by Canadian playwright Michael Healey, and new Tron Director Andy Arnold's first production since taking up the role. Benny Young and Brian Ferguson star.
8 May–24 May, not Sundays, Mondays 8.00 Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Katie Morag
Date Location
Katie Morag comes to life in a musical show full of fun. A play for children originally commissioned by Mull Theatre based on the writing of Mairi Hedderwick in a special new version for the Byre. Travel to Struay to meet one of the best loved characters in children's books.
15 May–17 May 7.00; Sat 2.30 & 7.00 Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Nova Scotia
Date Location
The long awaited fourth part of John Byrne's 'Slab Boys', er, trilogy, catching up with Phil, Spanky and Lucille thirty years after we last saw them. The excellent cast includes Gerry Mulgrew, Gerda Stevenson, Meg Fraser and Paul Morrow.
29 Apr–24 May, not Mondays 8.00 (17 May, 24 May 2.30 & 8.00); Sun 5.00 Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Pardon Me, Prime Minister
Date Location
This 1970s Number 10 farce sees the Prime Minister and the Chancellor preparing for a cut-throat budget.
17 May 7.30 The Little Theatre, Dundee
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
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Old buddies Elaine C Smith and Andy Gray team up again in an adaptation of the Jane Horrocks musical. Mari (Smith) likes to be the centre of attention, so when her latest boyfriend (Gray) - a would be Simon Cowell - decides to make her daughter Little Voice a star, the battlelines are drawn.
12 May–24 May, not Sundays 7.30; Wed & Sat 2.30 & 7.30 King's Theatre, Glasgow
Top Girls
Date Location
A seminal play for the twentieth century, Churchill's prose examines the highs and lows of Marlene, a successful lady executive.
14 May–17 May 7.30 East Kilbride Arts Centre, East Kilbride
Unsuitable for Adults
Date Location
AimAndSpit Theatre Company presents a play set in a bar that takes place in a bar. This site-specific tale conflagrates extreme naturalism, 80s nostalgia, feminist rants, post-feminist desires and the shadow cast by the fear of men.
15 May–17 May 8.00 Nicol Edwards, Edinburgh
The Wasp Factory
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Cumbernauld Theatre, working with the Tron, take on the mammoth task of adapting Iain Banks' first, best-loved, and most disturbing novel for the stage. Meet Frank, just your average island-dwelling, 16 year old serial killer, or so he thinks . . . Recommended for ages 15+.
17 May 7.30 Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock
The Witches of Eastwick
Date Location
In the tiny New England town of Eastwick, three modern day witches innocently plot and conjure over a heady brew of martinis and peanut butter brownies, in this musical comedy.
14 May–17 May 7.30; Sat 5.30 & 8.00 His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen

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