Six new plays by six of the UK’s most exciting young writers, performed by the graduating actors at Rose Bruford College.

TRIPLE BILL ONE:

We Planted Some Sunflowers
by Tom Wells
directed by Tessa Walker
1939: Jack has gone to war. Janet misses him. Edmund is a reluctant go-between. 2010: Tara is having a seance. Shelley is grieving. Caz was hoping there’d be cake. A play about love, loss and parakeets.

Organised
by Lucinda Burnett
directed by James Grieve
It’s 8:30am. A counsellor is coming to see troubled Michael at 9am sharp. His mum is hell bent on making a good impression, but his hungover brother Chris is still in bed, his Dad is facing a work crisis and the Queen of Hearts has been sick in the bathroom.

Midnight at the Hotel Beauregard
by Penelope Skinner
directed by David Zoob
The Hotel Beauregard, Paris on the night of Bastille Day 2010. As the clock strikes twelve, a murder is committed. Room-by-room, we meet every resident.

TRIPLE BILL TWO:

Beneath the Lights
by Danielle Sibley
directed by Iain Reekie
As the world on the surface grew darker and colder the Master came up with a plan to build a world under the streets. A home for the lost and abandoned children who no one else wanted, a home where there is food, comfort and music.

Some Machine
by Laura Lomas
directed by Iain Reekie
Two teenagers dream about their future. A mum and dad visit their son. A young man and woman are alone in a flat in Leeds. A play about leaving home, coming back to a world you don’t belong in and about wanting to be someone else.

Park High School Musical
by Adam Taylor
directed by Tessa Walker
Chris Newton and his friends are the self-appointed rulers of Park High School. But when Chris finally gets a taste of his own medicine and ‘The Losers’ offer him their friendship what will Chris do when his old gang want him back?

“Its government has declared vicious class war.
A one-sided war.
We have started to fight back…
…with bombs.”

Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade.

Their targets: MPs. Embassies. Police. Pageant Queens.

A world of order shattered by anarchy; the rules have changed. An uprising has begun. No one is exempt.

As a special police squad hunt the home-grown terrorists whose identities shocked the nation, James Graham’s heart-stopping thriller lures us into a frenzied world that looks much like our own.

In years to come we’ll look back and it’ll be like it happened to someone else… someone we didn’t even know and it’ll be hard to feel sorry for….

Horatio Nelson is dead but the women in his life live on.

April De Angelis’ play explores the way in which Britain constructs an idea of itself through a war hero but questions how society really treats those involved in war?

Paines Plough is partnering with Glasgow’s legendary A Play, A Pie and A Pint to bring you five new plays by five of of the UK’s leading writers – April De Angelis, David Harrower, Marie Jones, Linda McLean and Gary Owen – on tour in England, Scotland and Ireland, with a pie and a pint thrown in.

Image by Owen Benson

When I get really overwhelmed I go to a drugstore and look at the little sample sizes in the travel section and it calms me because I can try anything and not commit to it.

In this new play by Linda McLean’s only one thing is for sure; nothing.

The Uncertainty Files was developed with support from the Orchard Project Theatre Residency Programme.

Paines Plough is partnering with Glasgow’s legendary A Play, A Pie and A Pint to bring you five new plays by five of of the UK’s leading writers – April De Angelis, David Harrower, Marie Jones, Linda McLean and Gary Owen – on tour in England, Scotland and Ireland, with a pie and a pint thrown in.

Image by Karim Iliya

Let’s barricade some bridges, let’s show them they can’t push us around.
Which is fine, except they can push us around. And they will, if they want to.

A massive liquid gas line tears through the countryside of west Wales. Gary Owen opens the doors to three of the residence in the port of Milford Haven, Andrew, Dai and Joan, who are caught in its path.

Paines Plough is partnering with Glasgow’s legendary A Play, A Pie and A Pint to bring you five new plays by five of of the UK’s leading writers – April De Angelis, David Harrower, Marie Jones, Linda McLean and Gary Owen – on tour in England, Scotland and Ireland, with a pie and a pint thrown in.

He never won any more than a couple a quid, but that was his life…all he had…his paper , the horses, memories of singing along with Frank Sinatra and a life of misery.. he was better off dead in my opinion

Francis and Loretta are broke community care workers. Davy, one of their charges, has had a posthumous win on the horses and the women grapple with their conscience. Marie Jones’ new black comedy investigates whether we are valued more in life or in death.

Paines Plough is partnering with Glasgow’s legendary A Play, A Pie and A Pint to bring you five new plays by five of of the UK’s leading writers – April De Angelis, David Harrower, Marie Jones, Linda McLean and Gary Owen – on tour in England, Scotland and Ireland, with a pie and a pint thrown in.

Image by Sam Leighton

Chess is in prison. Facing a lengthy sentence, her cell mate, Serena, becomes her soul mate. But when Serena is given parole, Chess faces total isolation.

Hope comes in the form of a music producer looking for a reason to love music again. She finds a powerful voice in Chess. But to harness her talent, Chess must first face her past.

Lyrical fireworks. Live music. A story of love and redemption.