Scottish Theatre Highlights: June 2022

Summer takes off with early-season theatre festivals and shows at parks and beaches

Article by Eliza Gearty | 01 Jun 2022
  • Dundee Rep Theatre

It's a big month for Dundee Rep. June kicks off with Rep Stripped, a festival of new work (1-4 Jun). The programme looks strong, featuring stories about queer identity, class struggle, mental health and an experimental promenade performance called Cartography. On the 9th, the company will co-host the first of its Tayside Climate Beacon events, a series exploring the connections between culture, communities and climate action. Rounding off the month is David Colvin's award-winning play Thunderstruckabout a Pitlochry bin man who defied tradition to play the bagpipes in an entirely new way. It will be on at Dundee Rep 17-18 June.

Over in Glasgow, Tramway are delivering CROWD_CTRL at the Queens Park Arena, a free dance and digital 'live graphic novel', choreographed by AndroidX (11-12 Jun). At the Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and A Pint have programmed a delectable selection of lunchtime shows throughout June. Standouts include Maryam Hamidi's The Words, an exploration of home office asylum interviews (20-25 Jun) and the world premiere of a new musical called Scots from Noisemaker (27 Jun-2 Jul).

Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre will be revisiting a classic production 20 years after it was first performed  – Tom McGrath's Laurel & Hardy (3-25 Jun), reuniting Steven McNicoll and Barnaby Power. King's Theatre will be hosting the classic Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith (7-18 Jun).

After a sold-out run on Silverknowles beach last year, theatre company Disaster Plan are touring their production of Julia Taudevin’s Move to ten beaches in Scotland including St Andrews, Ayr and the isles of Mull and Skye (10 Jun-8 Jul). The show weaves storytelling, choral soundscape and Gaelic song, and deals with themes of loss, migration and communal healing. [Eliza Gearty]