Theatre

TRAFALGAR THEATRE

Returning to the stage for the first time in over a decade, Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) takes on the role of a lifetime in Zinnie Harris’ acclaimed contemporary adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi.

Recently widowed and in search for a new lease of life, the Duchess (Whittaker) defies her family’s wishes by remarrying beneath her class. However, when her brothers, driven by insurmountable greed and rage, discover her second marriage they unleash a series of cruel and devastating punishments against her that repress her power. But will their vicious atrocities come back to haunt them?

PARK THEATRE

Work.
Play.
Apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain.
Repeat.

Rebin has been stuck in the UK immigration system for almost a decade, settling into a routine: working at a local hand carwash, playing online games with loyal customer Noah, and repeatedly applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Writer Arzhang Pezhman

Director Gaby Dellal

Composer & Sound Designer Oğuz Kaplangı

BRISTOL OLD VIC

A daring heroine, captivating songs, and a timeless story of wonder and hope ✨

Schere has the quickest wits, greatest courage and most marvellous stories. Now she plans to liberate every young woman in the Kingdom from the greedy, tyrannical King. All through the power of her storytelling. But can she do this alone? And is the first person she has to turn to really her annoying younger sister?

As their mission grows more complicated, the sisters turn to the people of the Kingdom to join their cause. Working together, they overcome old grudges and petty disputes to find their collective voice. Together, they light up the Kingdom with magic, excitement, unity and hope in the festive season.

From writer Sonali Bhattacharyya (Chasing Hares, Young Vic) and director Blanche McIntyre (All’s Well That Ends Well, RSC) comes an Arabian Nights for modern times.

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. 

As William moves to London to discover his place in the world of theatre, Agnes stays at home to raise their three children but she is the constant presence and purpose of his life.

When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born.

This new play based on Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), pulls back a curtain on the imagined family life of the greatest writer in the English language. Hamnet is a love letter to passion, birth, grief and the magic of nature.

When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he is to become King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth will stop at nothing to make their darkest ambitions a reality. So far, so familiar. But then the story fragments…

Royal Lyceum Theatre

Writer/Director Zinnie Harris
Set Designer Tom Piper
Costume Designer & Associate Set Designer Alex Berry
Lighting Designer Lizzie Powell
Composer Oguz Kaplangi
Sound Designer Pippa Murphy
Movement Director Emily Jane Boyle
Fight & Intimacy Director Kaitlin Howard
Dramaturg Frances Poet

Get set sail with Lanternhouse and Visible Fictions to discover a story bursting with sea shanties, treasures, and a sumptuous amount of adventure.

Written by award-winning writer, Ross MacKay, this show is inspired by the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson.

George Orwell’s 1984 adapted to stage by Robert ICKE and Duncan MACMILLAN.

Bursa NKT

Directed by Murat Daltaban

Music  by Oğuz Kaplangı

Asst Director:  İbrahim Ersoylu
Choreography: Tan Temel
Set Design: Cem Yılmazer ve Burak Etöz
Costume Design: Tomris Kuzu
Lighting Design: Cem Yılmazer
Videos: Okan Temizarabacı
Masks: Aslı Akıncı, Tevfik Çelebi, Dükkan ül Hayal
Illustrations: Mehmet Akçakoca
Actors: Adem Mülazim, Ayşe Gülerman Kum, Barıs Ayas, Batuhan Pamukçu, Gökhan Kum, Mert Tiryaki, Oğuzhan Ayaz, Pınar Hande Ağaoğlu, Cihat Temel
Guest Actors (Video): Murat Daltaban, Halil Küreş, İbrahim Ersoylu, Mesut Özsoy

TRAVERSE THEATRE

POSITIVE STORIES FOR NEGATIVE TIMES is an international participatory project by Wonder Fools in association with the Traverse Theatre.

Award winning performance artist Bryony Kimmings’ paint by numbers self-generating play asks you to imagine a new system, a new world, a fair one, with better prospects and more equality… and flying cars and free money and loads of dancing and pizza parties and solutions to climate change.

Created by a group of dynamic young theatre-makers from across Scotland, this is their own unique version of Bryony Kimmings’ Revolting this Spring for anyone feeling powerless and anyone who needs a bit of hope.

• Composer, Sound Designer, Musician: Oğuz Kaplangı

TRAVERSE THEATRE

Full of tenderness and humour, and woven through with a live, folk-rock inspired, musical score, Still is a cathartic story of life, loss and joy.

Written by Frances Poet

• Director: Gareth Nicholls
• Designer: Karen Tennent
• Lighting Designer: Colin Grenfell
• Composer, Sound Designer, Musician: Oğuz Kaplangı
• Movement Director: Kally Lloyd-Jones
• Associate Director: Shilpa T-Hyland

*Photo by Lara Cappelli

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

A collection of new tales for Christmas by Andy Cannon, Hamaad Chaudhry, Tony Cownie, Robert Softley Gale, Louise Ironside, Jackie Kay, Denise Mina, Mara Menzies, Karine Polwart, Lynda Radley, Shona Reppe, and Morna Young

Project created and curated by Zinnie Harris. Commissioned by the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

Lyceum Christmas Tales is an advent calendar of 12 stories for audiences in Edinburgh and beyond, combining new and familiar festive tales penned and performed by some of Scotland’s best-loved writers, musicians and artists.

Directed by Zinnie Harris and Wils Wilson

Tom Piper Designer
Oğuz Kaplangi & MJ McCarthy Sound & Music
Kate Bonney & Simon Wilkinson Lighting Designers
Anna Chaney Director of Photography (Live Show)
Aly Wight Director of Photography and Editing
Sandy Butler Director of Photography (A Wee Bird Was Watching)
Mattie Foulds Sound Engineer (A Wee Bird Was Watching)
Anna Orton Associate Set Designer and Co-Costume Designer
Andrea Cabrera Luna Assistant Director

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

Let me tell you the truth of Tiny Tim
Ahhh – you thought his life was tough and his future grim?
Well, it’s no surprise that’s what you thought
Because of the stories we’ve all been taught…

Written by Robert Softley Gale & performed by Garry Robson

Directed by Wils Wilson

Tom Piper Designer
Oğuz Kaplangi Composer & Musician
Kate Bonney & Simon Wilkinson Lighting Designers
Aly Wight Director of Photography and Editing
Anna Orton Associate Set Designer and Co-Costume Designer
Andrea Cabrera Luna Assistant Director

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

This story takes place in East Africa, where Christmas happens at the Hottest and Driest time of the year and a brother and sister are bored, on their own and badly in need of a Christmas adventure…

Written and performed by Mara Menzies

Directed by Wils Wilson

Tom Piper Designer
Oğuz Kaplangi Composer & Musician
Kate Bonney & Simon Wilkinson Lighting Designers
Aly Wight Director of Photography and Editing
Anna Orton Associate Set Designer and Co-Costume Designer
Andrea Cabrera Luna Assistant Director

*Photo by Andrea Cabrera Luna

TRAVERSE THEATRE / BREAKFAST PLAYS

Dead in the woods, Ren of Ord clears her windpipe of soil, earth and rot. Sworn to enact vengeance, she rises to protect her land and her sisterhood from the fate that befell her that day upon the hill. Rabbit Catcher is a lyrical, mythical lore set within the dark, dense woods of Ord Hill, Inverness.

• Writer – Rebecca Martin
• Director – Gareth Nicholls
• Composer & Sound Designer – Oğuz Kaplangi
• Dramaturg – Eleanor White

This performance is delivered as an audio-only podcast

TRAVERSE THEATRE / BREAKFAST PLAYS

21st December 2012, the day the world was meant to end. The day a cult leader’s apocalyptic predictions failed. Faye and Felix devoted themselves to a doomsday that didn’t come and now, having seen the world get continually worse over the past nine years, they’re confronting their former leader with their findings.

• Writer – Conor O’Loughlin
• Director – Debbie Hannan
• Composer & Sound Designer – Oğuz Kaplangi
• Sound Engineer – Richard Bell
• Dramaturg – Eleanor White

This performance is delivered as an audio-only podcast.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

Brecht’s classic master and servant comedy is given a gender-switched adaptation by award-winning novelist and playwright Denise Mina.

Writer Bertolt Brecht
Director Murat Daltaban
Designer Tom Piper
Lighting Designer Katharine Williams

Music and Sound Design by Oğuz Kaplangı

A co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre and Citizens Theatre in association with DOT Theatre.

CAST

Elaine C. Smith
Steven McNicoll
Natalie Arle-Toyne
Rebecca Banatvala
Richard Conlon
Liam King
Beth Marshall
Joanne McGuinness
Stephanie Payne
Chloé-Ann Tylor

Oğuz Kaplangi (Musician)

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

Co-commissioned by the RSC and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

A STORY OF TREASURED HISTORY, DESPERATE CHOICES AND THE REMARKABLE GERTRUDE BELL

In 1926, the nation of Iraq is in its infancy, and British archaeologist Gertrude Bell is founding a museum in Baghdad. In 2006, Ghalia Hussein is attempting to reopen the museum after looting during the war.

Decades apart, these two women share the same goals: to create a fresh sense of unity and nationhood, to make the world anew through the museum and its treasures. But in such unstable times, questions remain. Who is the museum for? Whose culture are we preserving? And why does it matter when people are dying?

CREDITS

• Writer: Hannah Khalil
• Director: Erica Whyman
• Designer: Tom Piper
• Lighting: Charles Balfour
• Music and Sound: Oğuz Kaplangi
• Movement: Tanoushka Marah
• Dramaturg: David Greig
• Video: Nina Dunn

CAST

• Sarah Agha
• David Birrell
• Houda Echouafni
• Emma Fielding
• Ali Gadema
• Rendah Heywood
• Zed Josef
• Nadi Kemp-Sayfi
• Debbie Korley
• Richard Pryal
• Zara Ramm
• Riad Richie
• Rasoul Saghir

Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) & Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough)

Why would anyone want to get closer to nature? What’s that about? It’s cruel. Vindictive. Nature will give you cancer, burn your house down then send a flood to wash away your family.

Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Nature. Nurture.

Written by Oliver Emanuel (The 306 Trilogy) and directed by the Traverse’s Gareth Nicholls (Ulster American), The Monstrous Heart is thrilling, chilling and witty, examining afresh the eternal question of whether we ever really change how we’re made.

Is it possible to kill our old selves and create someone new and better in their place?

CREDITS

• Writer – Oliver Emanuel
• Director – Gareth Nicholls
• Lighting Designer – Tigger Johnson
• Set & Costume Designer – Cécile Trémolières
• Composer & Sound Designer – Oğuz Kaplangi

CAST

• Charlene Boyd
• Christine Entwistle

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

Tron Theatre (Glasgow)

‘Douse your hair in treacle, it will act as a thickener. Fill your underpants with sodium bicarbonate and vinegar.
Swallow a live goldfish, make sure it’s a wriggler.
You will be nervous, but no drink, not even a stiffener.
If you do these things you are bound to impress.
And the fairy queen’s magic will take care of the rest…’

So instructs the artful Subtle as he tricks another victim with talk of fairy queens and with his very own ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ at hand to change base metals into gold. His accomplice, the conniving Face, is cleaner of the house and these two rogues set themselves up as confidence tricksters while the master is away.

As money and gullible victims start rolling in it all starts to go very horribly wrong…acclaimed Scottish writer Gary McNair (A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, McGonagall’s Chronicles) has taken on Ben Jonson’s Jacobean farce, re-writing it in rhyming couplets and relocating it from London to Glasgow with brilliant comic effect.

‘Surely they’ll pull it off, oh they’re gonnae…
But the whole thing goes up the swanny!’

Cast: Neshla Caplan, Stephen Clyde, Jo Freer, Robert Jack, Louise McCarthy, Grant O’Rourke.

Adapted by Gary McNair from the original play by Ben Jonson
Directed by Andy Arnold
Designed by Charlotte Lane

Music composed by Oğuz Kaplangı