Scottish Theatre Highlights: July 2023
Interactive carnivals, exciting touring shows and a new venue for A Play, A Pie and a Pint – here's our guide to the best new Scottish theatre this July
July in Scotland is anything but quiet – this month promises a wide variety of opportunities to see live theatre across the country.
Half-Light Nights Theatre Company kicks off the month with its new show, EUROPAPALOOZA! (5-6 Jul), at August House in Glasgow. The show is an interactive, dark and dystopian carnival.
A Play, A Pie and a Pint will make its first ever visit to Pitlochry Festival Theatre to present The Great Replacement (3-8 Jul), a new play by Uma Nada-Rajah (Exodus, NTS). The play explores intergenerational relationships, politics, and racial bias.
This month, Pitlochry Festival Theatre will also host the premiere of Elizabeth Newman's adaptation of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (7 Jul-19 Aug). The production will be staged in Pitlochry Festival Theatre's stunning outdoor Ampitheatre.
This month, National Theatre of Scotland will premiere Nat McCleary's new play, Thrown, which follows five women as they take up competitive Backhold Wrestling. The production will tour locations on the Highland Games circuit and in community halls before landing at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre for August (2 Jul-27 Aug).
Scottish Opera Young Company, comprised of performers aged 17 to 21, will perform an enticing double bill of Henry McPherson's Maud and Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley. The production opens in Glasgow at Scottish Opera Production Studios and will tour through Largs' Barrfields Theatre and Stirling's Albert Halls (27-30 Jul).