Mither/Daughter is a spoken word theatre show about Leanne & Chelsea, a mum and daughter fae Dundee. Their lives intertwine through poetry, scenes and music. An urgent and raw exploration of motherhood, intergenerational trauma, and class. Combatting the stereotypes and stigmas associated with single motherhood and working-class lives. 

Age guidance and warnings: 16+. Themes of mental health, drug use.

Cast and Creative

Written by Taylor Dyson
Directed by Calum Kelly
Performed by Taylor Dyson & Jade Anderson
Music by Taylor Dyson & Calum Kelly

Mark's been your colleague for years. Brilliant. Charming. One of the good guys.  

His best friend has just exploded his life. Ray, the artist, the genius, a predator. Allegedly, probably, definitely. Thirty years of friendship, gone. Mark did what he had to. Erased Ray's work from the gallery walls himself, platformed women artists, read the f**king Substacks. He knows how to perform accountability.  

But you've made allegations too. About Mark.  

Tonight, in the gallery basement while a party rages upstairs, Mark needs to talk. Two glasses of wine in hand, he's ready to explain. About Ray, about loyalty, about being a good man who just stayed friends a bit too long. About what you're accusing him of.  

Trapped in a conversation you didn't ask for with a man who believes he's different. Seductive, self-aware, desperate, Mark makes his case.  

And you might find yourself listening.  

A new work-in-development monodrama by Eve Nicol ('Svengali', 'If You're Feeling Sinister') about complicity, loyalty, and the questions we'd rather not answer. 

Age guidance and warnings: 16+. Contains strong language, adult themes, and references to sexual misconduct. 

Cast and Creative

Writer / Director - Eve Nicol 

SCAB is a musical for one actor and a community choir that tells the story about a young Dundonian Mum’s experience living through the Timex Strikes. As she weighs her political principles against her need to put food on the table, she is forced to make impossible choices between the needs of her community and the needs of her family.  

On Christmas Eve 1992, when Timex leaders announced plans to lay off more than half of the workforce, workers voted to strike. The industrial action that followed is noted by historians for its unusual levels of violence, and for the fact that it largely involved women. It is considered the last great industrial dispute in 20th Century Britain, and left deep scars on Dundee and its communities. 

Cast and Creative

Writer - Ryan Hay  
Composer - David Fallon  
Performer TBC 

Please note this work-in-progress extract will not include the community choir.

Sisters Keeley and Bette are on a drive to A&E after Keeley has harmed herself during a meltdown. We follow the pair in real time throughout their fifty-minute car journey to the hospital, as they unpick their respective lives and childhoods, which were the exact same yet entirely different. “Manual/Automatic” is a bold new play about perspective, sisterhood, neurodiversity, and being there when it matters. 

Age guidance and warnings: Strong language, self-harm. 

Cast and Creative

Writer - Milly Sweeney  
Director - Fallon Docherty  
Actor playing KEELEY - Milly Sweeney  
Actor playing BETTE - Amy-Brennan Clark 

Route is a hip-hop theatre work that explores migration, cultural identity and belonging through a powerful reversal of history. The piece imagines a world where a group of Scottish settlers arrive unexpectedly on the shores of an African tribe. The tribe, initially at rest and unaware, is suddenly disrupted by the presence of these newcomers. By flipping the familiar narrative of colonisation and migration, Route invites audiences to reconsider ideas of intrusion, settlement and power.  

The choreography highlights the contrasts between the two groups through distinct physical languages. Each culture is represented through its own rhythm, movement qualities and social dynamics, emphasising how different traditions and identities can coexist yet initially feel in conflict. Throughout the work, moments of separation and tension reveal the fear and misunderstanding that can arise when cultures collide.  

As the piece develops, the focus begins to shift. Rather than remaining divided, the groups gradually observe, learn from and influence one another. Movement vocabularies begin to blend, symbolising the potential for exchange, adaptation and shared humanity. Route ultimately asks audiences to reflect on migration not only as a story of conflict, but also as a process of learning, transformation and connection.

Cast and Creative

Creators - Sara Quinn and Kiki Oladapo  

Dancers - Nevil Jose, Chris Kane , Nicolette McCormack, Maya Pneil, Jay Ern Lee