Rob Drummond News

Forget the Braveheart clichés — this bold new production rips into Scotland's most famous legend, asking whether William Wallace was a hero, a rebel, or simply a myth.

Following its sell-out run at A Play, A Pie and a Pint, this thrilling new musical, presented by an award-winning team, returns as a fully fledged production

Three performers take the mic to retell the life of William Wallace — from birth to his brutal death and beyond, in this thundering new musical featuring original hip hop music.

PPP announced 12 new plays as part of their 2025 Autumn season. A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has today announced its Autumn 2025 season, with 12 brand-new productions performing weekly from Monday 1 September to Saturday 22 November 2025 at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and on tour across Scotland in Ayr, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Paisley.

The finalists for the OffWestEnd Awards (Offies) have been announced, as the UK’s foremost awards for independent theatre mark their 15th anniversary. Learn more here!

See what the critics are saying about Pins and Needles at the Kiln Theatre. Read the reviews for Rob Drummond's play, starring Richard Cant, and learn more about the production.

New play packs plenty of ethical questions into an engaging and fascinating production that offers much to think about on the way home

An all new teaser trailer has been released for the world premiere of Rob Drummond’s Pins and Needles at Kiln Theatre. The production opens on 25 September, with previews from 19 September, and runs until 26 October. Check out the video here!

Rob Drummond’s new play, Pins and Needles, will premiere in Amit Sharma’s inaugural season at the Kiln Theatre on Wednesday 25 September.

Amit Sharma has announced the full cast for the world première of Rob Drummond's Pins and Needles which opens his first season as Artistic Director at Kiln Theatre. Sharma directs Richard Cant, Gavi Singh Chera, Brian Vernel and Sharlene Whyte.

The lineup for Amit Sharma's inaugural season as Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre will include the European premiere of Dan McCabe's The Purists, and more.

Another bloody serious comedy from BOP, makers of the hilarious My Left Right Foot – The Musical.

Birds Of Paradise presents DON'T.MAKE.TEA. a new commission from Scotland's disability-led theatre company. Written by Rob Drummond (Bulletcatch, The Majority), directed by Robert Softley Gale (Purposeless Movements, My Left/Right Foot - the Musical) at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Wednesday 5 - Saturday 8 October 2022 (BSL/CAP/AD all performances).

From modern day inequities to porn addiction, betting shops, spiritual and sexual liberation and an octopus taught to believe in God, 17 new plays have been longlisted for the 40th anniversary of Soho Theatre's Character 7 sponsored Verity Bargate Award.

Storyhouse is heading outside this summer with a busy programme of exciting events which will appeal to audiences young and old. 

A right-wing politician and a left-wing activist meet in a court mandated restorative justice session after an unfortunate incident involving a strawberry milkshake. When the moderator doesn’t show they take it upon themselves to conduct the session without supervision. How difficult can it be? After all, it was only a milkshake. It’s not like anyone died.

The cast has been announced for the upcoming World Premiere of a Roald Dahl magic show – a production of Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar which opens at Perth Theatre on 24 March and runs until 2 April before touring to Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling from 7 to 10 April and Eden Court, Inverness from 15 to 17 April.

Whilst the Traverse has not paused its programming since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 – instead producing and presenting over 150 digital shows and original pieces of content, and 24 socially distanced in-person productions both in our venue and off-site in August and December – the company will now be able to present a full in-person series of performances over Spring 2022.

For Black Boys who have considered suicide when the hue gets too heavy is a profound, poetic, and playful new production centred around mental health in young Black men.

When ETT approached me about making a theatre show which would most likely have to be shown digitally my first thought was … how can we call that theatre? From the beginning I was anxious, as with all my work, to keep the audience vital, active and (if they liked) participatory. Out of that came 'Open Mic'.