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Acting Up: Rehearsed Reading
Tearaway Writers present - Pay What You Can £12.00 / £10.00 / £8.00
A night of performed writing, featuring darkly humorous, dramatic, and comedic plays by the talented local writing group, the Tearaway Writers. Running time: 1h 45m Ages 12+ Contains some sensitive subjects such as death and...
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Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson
Categorical inequality and the economy of esteem
The Knox Lecture is an annual public lecture in the area of philosophy. This year's speaker is Professor Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), who will be speaking on the topic of 'Categorical inequality and the economy of Esteem'. Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of 'categorical inequality'. In this...
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A Hymn to the Banished: Annalee Davis in conversation
Artist Annalee Davis in conversation with Dr Jillian Sutherland and Dr Ariadne Collins, chaired by Dr Catherine Spencer
Please join us in person or online for this in conversation event with the artist Annalee Davis, Dr Jillian Sutherland, and Dr Ariadne Collins, chaired by Dr Catherine Spencer. Taking as its starting point Davis's multi-part print edition A Hymn to the Banished (2022), which addresses connections between Scotland and Barbados, the conversation will...
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The Magic Cabaret
The Great Baldini presents - Pay What You Can £16.00 / £14.00 / £12.00
Legendary magician the Great Baldini provides a cabaret of magical illusions --- starting with his first trick on his twelfth birthday and culminating in his seizing control of the ILLUSIONATI. Imagine Tommy Cooper trying to crack the Da Vinci Code. Running time: 2h 20m Ages:...
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Family Magic Show
The Great Baldini presents - Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00 / £6.00
Legendary magician the Great Baldini tells the story of his (and Baldwin the magical dog's) life from his first trick to the height of their careers --- attempting Houdini's greatest escape. The show is packed with magic, puppetry, escapology, and the hunt for a child with Royal heritage. Hilariously silly. Running time: 50m Ages...
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Nye (Cert 12A tbc)
National Theatre Live: - Pay What You Can £20.00 / £15.00 / £10.00
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain's welfare state and created the NHS. Confronted with death, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights...
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Love the Sinner
Vanishing Point & Imogen Stirling Present, A co-production with Beacon Arts Centre & Shetland Arts - Pay What You Can £15.00 / £12.00 / £10.00
The seven deadly sins are alive and kicking in contemporary Scotland. Love The Sinner is a beautifully produced fusion of performance poetry, visual theatre and live electronic music, that reflects on the meaning of being human today. In this pulsating full-scale theatre show, we meet seven extraordinary characters as they struggle to comprehend their...
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Side by Side by Sondheim
Byre Opera presents - £25.00 / £20.00 / £10.00
Byre Opera presents its first Music Theatre production: get ready to laugh, cry and fall in love with lyrics that are heartbreakingly true and music that captures the soaring emotions of a new generation with Side By Side By Sondheim. This Tony Award-winning musical is a perfect introduction to the work of this contemporary...
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Side by Side by Sondheim
Byre Opera presents - £25.00 / £20.00 / £10.00
Byre Opera presents its first Music Theatre production: get ready to laugh, cry and fall in love with lyrics that are heartbreakingly true and music that captures the soaring emotions of a new generation with Side By Side By Sondheim. This Tony Award-winning musical is a perfect introduction to the work of this contemporary...
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Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner
Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations
Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington. Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance...
