Scottish Theatre Highlights: November 2024

November begins at Tramway in Glasgow with Neil Barlett's Blue Now (2 Nov), a live performance of Derek Jarman's final film, Blue (1993). With a new score by Simon Fisher Turner, the film's original composer, the piece reflects on the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the ongoing struggle for liberation.

This month, Clare Prenton's Men Don't Talk continues its Scottish tour, hitting Orkney, Aberdeenshire, Paisley, Edinburgh and Cromarty (2-19 Nov). Set in a fictional men's shed, the play is based on real-life conversations with Scottish men surrounding wellbeing and mental health.

Pilot Theatre brings a stage adaptation of Manjeet Mann's acclaimed novel, Run, Rebel, to the Traverse this month (7-9 Nov). Made for audiences 11+, the play uses mixed genres to tell a story about running, empowerment and family. 

In association with National Theatre of Scotland, Disaster Plan is staging Tero Buru, a play by the late Scottish-Kenyan artist Beldina Odenyo, at Platform, Easterhouse (15 & 16 Nov). The play, interpreted posthumously by Odenyo's sister, Leah McAleer, and her friend and collaborator, Julia Taudevin, was left unstaged after Odenyo's death in 2021. The work explores grief, sisterhood and heritage.