VENUE 13

by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 23, 2026

Cash-strapped best pals Linda and Angie live for the weekend buzz of bingo night. Their daughters, Stacey and Amy, however, think it’s just an old biddies’ game until they hear about the ‘big one’ with £40k up for grabs....

by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 22, 2026

Samira, a Scottish Aid Worker, goes through a ‘baptism of fire’ during the revolutions in the Middle East. Certain she can make a difference, she takes on mission after mission, but is quickly confronted by the reality of war, aid work and her own disillusionment....

by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 16, 2026

A verbatim drama retelling the events of a local Glaswegian community coming together to stop a dawn raid....

by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 16, 2026

Something’s wrong. Baby Mash-up knows there’s 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....

by Mary Baillie - May 18, 2026

After a critically acclaimed 'must see' at the Edinburgh Fringe, Leila Navabi brings her solo 'punk musical' Relay to the Traverse - this one races ahead with heart and humour....

by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 19, 2026

It is now a few days since I left Treowen, a gorgeous 17th century Manor House set in the even-more-gorgeous Welsh countryside and I am still processing the experience. To call Lemon Difficult's The Key of Dreams simply an 'immersive experience' is to sell it very short. Where else can you spend 24...

by Mary Baillie - May 15, 2026

Night Waking follows Anna, an Oxford academic living on a remote Hebridean island with her husband Giles and their two young children. Already overwhelmed by the pressures of motherhood, Anna’s world shifts when she discovers the remains of a baby buried in the garden, sparking an investigation in...

by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 14, 2026

When Sally returns to Cowdenbeath from her busy city life for her father’s funeral, she’s pulled back into the world of “The Blue Brazil” – the trials, triumphs, and unbreakable loyalty of a small-town football club with a big heart....

by Cheryl Markosky - May 15, 2026

While The Winter's Tale's regarded as a play of two halves (set in Sicilia and Bohemia), former Royal Shakespeare Company director Greg Doran's poignant and absorbing Walking Shadow is a book of two halves....

by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 13, 2026

After a 30-year delay in the departure lounge, The High Life returns in a new musical spectacular featuring all four original cast members - Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart....