Maggie And me & Greenapple Street Blues: Best Dressed Bully; Thunder And Lightning; Hockey Stuck; Crime Wave in Room 7; the Best Tree You Can be; ... Substitute Mother; the More Things Change

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Scotland's biggest live comedy experience The Big Fab Comedy Show heads out on the road once again, bringing stellar stand-up comedy to towns and cities across the country. Last year, as part of a wider strategy announcement, STV confirmed ambitious plans to grow STV Productions into a world-class production company. This new production from National Theatre of Scotland premieres at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in May 2024 before touring to Inverness, Perth, Cumbernauld, Dundee and Edinburgh.

Maggie Thatcher emerges from the rubble, dusty but defiant and somehow in the living room of 8-year-old Damian Barr in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire. Indeed not, instead this book covers issues that are widespread even today, some 30 years on from the period of time that Barr starts discussing his experiences. Inspired by real events, it’s a novel of connected parts which uncovers a hidden colonial history and present-day darkness while exploring our capacity for cruelty and kindness. This is no ordinary crime novel – along with its brilliantly plotted mystery, and wonderful characters, Kirstin’s book asks some brave and provocative questions about the world we live in. Thinking back to my own schooling and picking the kids who were the centre of bullying and ridicule.I’m a huge fan of James Ley’s plays and especially what they say about identity - writing with him has been a joy and I’ve learned so much about making the shift from page to stage. As a memoir of growing up in the West of Scotland ami

The recent gains in Malta, India, Cuba dwarfed by the continuing prejudices - and unimaginable violence - people hold against the LGBTQI+ community. Musical sensation Jess Folley will play Ali in Burlesque the Musical, the first ever stage adaptation of Steven Antin's crowd-pleasing movie Burlesque, when it comes to Glasgow! A society still fraught from the loss of `The Craig' and still stuck in a glorious Labour Voting past securing MP Frank Roy the safest seat in the party. Dog owners making an environmental New Year Resolution have boosted the ranks of the “PAWS ON PLASTIC’ campaign to 25,000. How much of it is 100% personal experience and how much of it is based on objective experience remains personal to the author.Not til I turned the final page in this book with a smile of satisfaction I realize that I've seen this author in real life. Damian Barr has written a novel concerned with single strain of human history, of how a people are made and unmade and how they go on to make and unmake others, of the stories they tell themselves to allow such things to pass.

The struggles of the adults in the book to succeed against the often harsh influences of a woman who is supposed to be working to help them reflects Damian’s struggles with his own parent figures, and conversely with insufficient parental authority in his life, he actually flourishes by embracing the authority this hated figure represents, and turning it into inspiration for how to succeed – and succeed he does. Guests included: Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Mary Beard, Yaa Gyasi, David Nicholls, Colm Tóibín, Taiye Selasi, David Mitchell and Rose McGowan. By turns funny, tender, and heartbreaking, it is also a useful primer for anyone too young to remember what life was like in the industrial areas of Britain enduring the changes wrought by Thatcherism. Relaxed performances are for all audience members who would benefit from a more relaxed theatre environment, including (but not limited to) neurodivergent people, people with a learning disability and parents with very young children.Then his face dropped just as fast as he shyly wiped away the tears he hadn’t expected, his chin quivering as he whispered, “I wished I had a mum like yours”. From the furnaces of the Ravenscraig Steelworks to the sanctuary of Carfin Grotto, there’s pain and joy, coming of age and coming out. Damian Barr gives a warm but grueling account of what it meant to grow up gay in the decaying industrial cities of the north during the rule of Margaret Thatcher.