Paines Plough returns to Edinburgh with the World Premiere of a gripping thriller from last year’s Fringe First Award winner Alexandra Wood.

A man turns up at Lucy’s door claiming to be the brother she hasn’t seen in 10 years. But why has he come? Is it really him? And what happens when there’s another knock at the door?

Forced to confront the messy inner workings of sibling love with its petty resentments, casual cruelty, profound betrayals and implicit understanding, can the bond between brother and sister be rebuilt?

An intriguing tale of loss, renewal and knowing who to trust.

“If I could give you all the blood in my body…go back…make it undone…undo what happened, I would do.”

An ordinary summer’s day.

Liam is about to make a decision he will spend a life time regretting.

One day. One mistake.

Seven lives sent spiralling.

From service stations to sea fronts, BLISTER examines one moment and its ripple effects through a galaxy of lives.

“I ain’t got a city named for me…The swans have though, haven’t they. They got a city named for them.”

17-year-old Emma dreams of travelling adventures beyond her Swansea home. Rhys, her idle boyfriend, has other plans for them.

Facing the consequences of their actions under the disapproving eye of Emma’s mother, they struggle to find a happy medium.

Now, camped out on Swansea seafront, they must confront the difficult question of what it takes to leave the place that shaped everything they are.

A story about what happens when life gets in the way of your dreams.

Sam Burns weaves together a touching, sensitive play that tackles our conflicting emotions about the place we call home.

I’m not asking you to win. I’m asking you to just: chuck your face at it, have a, have a fucking good go at it. And then we’ll. Yeah. We’ll see.

Luke wants Danny, but Danny’s got a secret. Joe wants to play second fiddle, but Geoff wants a headline gig. Viv just wants to beat the lesbians to the league title. Game on.

A hilarious and heart-warming comedy about football, friendship and finding your way from Tom Wells, winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2012 for the smash hit comedy THE KITCHEN SINK.

In 1942 Viktor Ullmann, a successful Czech composer, was incarcerated by the Nazis in the notorious Terezin ghetto. Here, under circumstances of supreme deprivation, he created his finest pieces of music before transportation to Auschwitz where he died in 1944.

Fifty years on, Sonja Lyndon has written a blackly comic, bravely unsentimental and entirely heartbreaking play about Ulmann and the extraordinary cultural life that existed in Terezin under the noses of the Nazis.

Three interesting and diverse new plays developed through the Paines Plough Laboratory:

CALL ME JUDAS by Sonja Lyndon

CUCKOO by Hugh Costello

THE GLORY TREE by Susie Campbell

The secret life of Marie Tussaud, waxwork artiste extraordinaire and witness to the French Revolution.