Fans is the newest piece of writing from North-East playwright Matt Anderson, whose previous plays include Shotgunned (Edinburgh Fringe, Bright Spark Award Winner) and Death of an Influencer (A Play, A Pie, and A Pint).  

This excerpt takes place approximately fifteen minutes into the play, as our two couples, Betty and Albert, and Simon and Fiona, get together for drinks to celebrate Fiona’s mysterious new job. After a bit of coaxing, Fiona announces she has created an account on “Fan Cams,” a subscription-based platform for creators who primarily specialise in adult content. This news shocks Betty and Albert, especially when they learn the sheer amount of money Fiona now makes per month. Before long, an awkwardly polite discussion turns into a heated and humorous debate over the ethics of monetised content, porn culture and what exactly counts as being faithful in a post-internet world.  

Fans explores many contemporary themes and issues found within modern relationships, addressing how difficult and messy things can become when your loved one embroils themselves in the world of adult content. 

Age guidance and warnings: 15+ Strong Language, Adult themes 

Cast and Creative

Matt Anderson - Writer  
Actors - TBC  
Annabel Lunney - Dramaturg  
Fraser Scott – Director 

“I’ve just embarrassed a middle aged man in middle management. The repercussions of such a careless act could be vast.” 

A Peg or Two is a sharp, audacious monologue that fuses both theatre and stand up comedy.  

It looks at Adrianna’s complicated feelings towards her manager. As he shares his cocksure views on womanhood, she becomes increasingly exasperated and increasingly drawn to him. 

A Peg or Two interrogates the tension between desire and ideology, looking at not only male duplicity, but female hypocrisy. Funny and uncomfortably honest, the play invites audiences inside one young woman’s spiralling inner monologue. 

Katya Searle is an actor and writer from Glasgow. She is interested in how joke writing can carry complex political and emotional ideas in a theatrically dynamic way. Her work interrogates contemporary gender politics and centres female characters who don’t occupy the moral high ground. 

Katya is the co-founder of I’ll Scratch Yours, a popular scratch night in Glasgow dedicated to new writing. She is a graduate of the BA Acting course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has worked with a range of companies as an actor. 

Age guidance and warnings: 18+. Content warnings: Very strong language and mentions of misogyny, sex, sexual assault and pornography 

Cast and Creative

Katya Searle - Writer/ Actor 
Francesca Hess - Dramaturg 
Sonia Killmann - Sound Designer 

Woman Above Water is a solo dance-poem by Niamh O’Loughlin exploring what happens when a voice long held beneath the surface begins to rise. 

Drawing on story, water imagery, sea monsters, and mythic feminine figures, from Melusine to the banshee, the work moves through memories held in the body: pleasure, violation, tenderness, loneliness, and survival. Movement and text weave together to navigate the tides of intimacy, power, and silence. 

Playful, dark, and vulnerable, the piece asks follow a woman set adrift, finding what was submerged in order to survive, and what happens when it finally breaks the surface. 

With tenderness and fierceness, Woman Above Water offers a glimpse of a body remembering how to speak. It is a work about reclaiming voice, listening to the body’s memory, and learning how to stay afloat in deep water. 

Age guidance and warnings: References to sexual assault told subtly through poetry.

Cast and Creative

Niamh O’Loughlin - Writer/director/choreographer 
Quee Macarthur - sound design/composer 
Laura Booth - dancer/performer 

Juney McCloud and the Zombie Apocalypse is a play about an anxious girl-fail, her crippling fear of zombies, and her dead ex-girlfriend's dog.  

Juney McCloud hasn’t slept in three days. She’s locked herself in her flat, adopted a dog, and bought enough food to last for weeks. Juney’s ex-girlfriend died a week ago, but all Juney can think about is what she’ll do if there’s a zombie apocalypse. Recently, everything’s felt strange. There’s fights at the supermarkets and road rage on the streets. Nobody seems to be able to listen to one another. Obviously, zombies aren’t real. Zombies aren’t real, of course, and everything is fine. It’s just that everyone looks so... hungry. As the walls close in and the screaming begins, Juney is forced to reckon with her own apocalypse.  

“You’re probably thinking: Juney McCloud, she’s always talking about zombies! She’s always thinking about zombies. She’s crazy! She’s nutso! She’s dog-barking mental! And yeah. You’re right. I do often think about zombies.” 

Age guidance and warnings: 12+. This piece contains strong language and suicidal ideation.  

Cast and Creative

Alex Medland - Writer and performer  

Courtney Bassett - Director 

Modern Woman is a new musical that brings the remarkable life of Scottish medical pioneer, suffragist and war hero Elsie Inglis to the stage.  

Set across multiple timelines, the show moves between early-20th-century Edinburgh and the turbulent year of 1988, weaving together history, fiction and imagination. Drawing on Elsie’s personal archives, historic records and original songs, the musical focusses on Elsie’s speculated romantic relationship with Dr Flora Murray and the writing of her posthumously discovered unpublished manuscript, The Story of a Modern Woman. Within its pages she creates Joan — a young nurse in 1988 Edinburgh navigating her first lesbian relationship during a year marked by the closure of the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital, the AIDS crisis and the introduction of Section 28. As Elsie’s world collides with Joan’s, two women — one real, one imagined — unfold in parallel.  

Their stories explore love, secrecy and resilience as each struggles to claim space in a society determined to silence them. Blending contemporary folk style musical theatre with late-80s musical textures, Modern Woman is a rich, genre-spanning score that mirrors the show’s layered storytelling — a powerful exploration of identity, history and the enduring fight to live authentically.  

Cast and Creative

Hayley Scott – Writer