Overview

A ground-breaking new writing collaboration between The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. The first performances of new plays developed by three of Scotland’s best writers with actors and directors from the Academy’s Masters Classical and Contemporary Text programme.

Hartland
by Nicola McCartney

'My daddy was a butcher at the old plant and he said that cutting up a human carcass is a lot like cutting up a pig. How about that?'
- Bennett
 
Hartland: a small town in the Midwest, slap bang in the middle of the American flyover zone but weirdly isolated from the rest of the human race. Up above, stars are criss-crossing the night sky. And down below the lives of a handful of indifferent individuals, bound together by nothing but a shared geography, are about to cross. Fatefully.

The first act of a new play about people who were lost, but now are found.

The God of Soho
by Chris Hannan

There is a thief in heaven. Meanwhile down on earth fetish items have been stolen from a goddess of the celebrity world. It's up to some homeless people to restore the stolen goods to the rightful owners in heaven and earth. The God of Soho is a crazy mixed-up mess of a play about the divine.

Diner/Fuchs – Heuristic
by Peter Arnott

Set in a diner at the edge of Santa Fe, New Mexico in June of 1945, this play is about a man called Klaus Fuchs... who at this central, defining moment passed an envelope containing a detailed description of the first atomic bomb to a man called Harry, who he believed to be a Soviet spy. This is an attempt to tell Fuchs' story, before and after.