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Articles by Frances Poet
Listings: Mon 18 – Sun 24 May 2026
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week? It’s mostly musicals for Edinburgh’s bigger stages, in a week where the less established and up-and-coming young bloods of the scene are the pick of the theatre offerings. Let’s start with the interesting stuff. The PPP lunchtime theatre mob are back at Assembly Roxy with Funeral for my Boobs (Wed-Sun: tickets). Then at the Studio, Tortoise in a Nutshell’s brilliant, “★★★★☆ Dark“ Ragnarok is selling fast (Sat: tickets).
Meet the Strikers - Full cast announced for Stand & Deliver
A National Theatre of Scotland and Tron Theatre Company co-production Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In Written by Frances Poet Directed by Jemima Levick From an idea conceived by Paul English and Frances Poet Full cast – Aron Dochard, Jo Freer, Madeline Grieve, Hannah Jarrett-Scott and Chiara Sparkes Performing Musical Director - Shonagh Murray Set and Costume Design - Jessica Worrall, Lighting Design - Emma Jones, Sound Design - Kevin Murray, Arrangements and Musical Supervision -...
Small Acts of Love
A Citizens Theatre production in association with the National Theatre of Scotland Event details Page Navigation A powerful new play that celebrates love, resilience, and community. In the wake of the Pan Am 103 atrocity in December 1988, the people of Lockerbie responded with heartwarming acts of kindness for the relatives of people who died on board.
Review: CYRANO, Traverse Theatre
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. Written by Virginia Gay and directed by Clare Watson this is a new gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Review: IN TWO MINDS, Traverse Theatre
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Email: Existing user? Just click login. In Two Minds is written by Joanne Ryan, directed by Sarah Jane Scaife and is being staged as part of Trav Fest 24. A woman who is approaching forty (Karen McCartney) finds herself with an unexpected roommate as her mother (Pom Boyd) comes to stay with her as she's having an extension done at home.
Review: THE SOUND INSIDE, Traverse Theatre
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. The Sound Inside is a Tony Award-nominated play written by Adam Rapp and directed by Matt Wilkinson and it makes its UK debut as part of Trav Fest 24. Bella (Madeline Potter) is an Ivy League professor who develops an unusual bond with her student, Christopher (Eric Sirakian).
Review: THE OUTRUN, Church Hill Theatre
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Email: Existing user? Just click login. The Outrun makes its world stage premiere as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. Based on the memoir by Amy Liptrot, The Outrun is adapted and written by Stef Smith and directed by Vicky Featherstone.
Review: A HISTORY OF PAPER, Traverse Theatre
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. A History of Paper is written by Oliver Emanuel & Gareth Williams and directed by Andrew Panton and it makes its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre as part of Trav Fest 24.
Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, King's Theatre
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. Originating at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, this production of Jesus Christ Superstar is presented by David Ian for Crossroads Live and Work Light Productions. It is a sung-through rock opera first staged in 1971 with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.
A LIFE IN BOXES Comes to Edinburgh Fringe
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. Rhiannon Hughes will bring A life in boxes to Edinburgh Fringe. Performances run 2nd -24th August (Not 11th) at theSpaceUK @ Surgeon’s Hall. Charlotte has just gotten her first grey hair, lives in a cramped flat share and has a job she mostly likes, ok has a job. Oh, and her Mum has just died.
Pace Theatre Company Announces Premiere Of New Stage Play By Frances Poet
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. PACE Theatre Company in association with OneRen and supported by Future Paisley are thrilled to announce the World Premiere of There Is No Room in our Bathroom for Lewis Capaldi, a new play by Frances Poet.
EDINBURGH 2024: GIRLS REALLY LISTEN TO ME Q&A
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email: Existing user? Just click login. BWW caught up with Eleanor Greene about bringing Girls Really Listen To Me to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. How did you first get involved in the world of theatre? I first got involved in theatre when I was about twelve years old and attended performing arts sleepaway camp.
Sense and Sensibility
Author(s): Jane Austen, adapted by Frances Poet Company: Pitlochry Festival Theatre and OVO Venue: The Roman Theatre of Verulamium, St Albans Dates: 12–18 Aug 2024 Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the Dashwood family and follows sisters Elinor and Marianne, whose lives are turned upside down when their father passes away suddenly and leaves the family home to their half-brother, John.
What's on in January at the NCPA in Mumbai
We want to reach the broadest and most varied audience we can. bringing a combination of live and filmed events in many languages to our flexible choice of facilities Representational images. Pic/iStock It's an exciting moment because performers are performing on stage, and the spotlight is back and shining brightly. A terrific programme of presentations has the NCPA buzzing. The NCPA theatre division produces, stages, and hosts top-notch theatre that amuses, engages, and inspires.
National Theatre of Scotland
Overview Inspired by the life of Adam Kashmiry, Adam tells the remarkable story of a young trans man and his struggle across genders and borders to be himself. Originally a National Theatre of Scotland stage play, Adam has been reinvented as a compelling, theatrical on-screen drama. Once again, Adam Kashmiry performs, as himself, in the leading role. Born into a deeply conservative society, Adam was assigned female at birth but always knew he was a boy.
Traverse Young Writers - Autumn 2021
The Traverse Theatre is passionate about supporting the NEW. New ideas, new conversations, new writers. Traverse Young Writers is aimed at 18-25 year olds who are looking to develop their writing skills in a fun, supportive group setting. The course offers the opportunity to be part of a creative network, where aspiring playwrights can discuss, debate and create great new work. Maybe you’ve never considered writing for theatre before.
National Theatre of Scotland
Inspired by the life of Adam Kashmiry, Adam tells the remarkable story of a young trans man and his struggle across genders and borders to be himself. Originally a National Theatre of Scotland stage play, Adam has been reinvented as a compelling, theatrical on-screen drama. Once again, Adam Kashmiry performs, as himself, in the leading role. Born into a deeply conservative society, Adam was assigned female at birth but always knew he was a boy.
Move | On demand
Coming Up Credits Writer & DirectorJulia Taudevin DramaturgKieran Hurley Transfer DirectorAlan Lane Sound DesignerMatt Angove CostumeCatherine Barthram Stage ManagerNia Wood ProducerLuke Holbrook Producer, Slung LowJoanna Resnick CastNerea Bello, Helen Katamba, Mairi Morrison, Beldina Odenyo, Julia Taudevin Behind the Scenes Production stills Choose Dates and Book This on demand version of Move will be available to bookers from Tue 24 Aug.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Aye, Elvis
The smash-hit lunchtime production returns to Edinburgh this summer due to popular demand. Joan is an amateur Elvis impersonator with big dreams. And she’s got the outfit. With the regional heat of Ultimate Elvis coming soon, Joan knows there’s work to do. But Joan has The King inside – and The King always wins. Will Joan find her way to Graceland, to love and to riches? Aye, Elvis is an alternative love story about escapism, identity and a Doric Elvis.
MOVE
A mother hurls her newborn baby into the outstretched arms of a stranger. A grandmother remembers the ocean of her homeland. A woman runs towards the approaching boats shouting “this way!” Inspired by ancient keening rituals, MOVE is about migration, loss and communal healing. Weaving storytelling, choral soundscape and Gaelic song, five women portray the ebb and flow of people across the globe throughout the ages.
Celebrate great LGBTQ+ writing with 40% off selected plays
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Behind the Scenes – FIBRES by Frances Poet
Make a Donation Like all arts organisations across the UK, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a big impact on the Citizens Theatre and Stellar Quines – and on the individuals we engage with and the communities we serve. We need your support to survive this crisis, to ensure the arts are accessible to people from all walks of life, and that artists and freelancers continue to be employed as the lifeblood of our industry.
Save 30% on brilliant thirty Edinburgh Fringe shows
Save 30% with code FRINGEFAVE30 until 31 August The Edinburgh Festival Fringe may not be happening this year (damn you, COVID-19!), but as it's August, we thought it'd be the perfect time to look back at years gone by and celebrate some of our favourite NHB shows that have wowed audiences at the world's largest arts festival.
Jump the Q - Queen's Theatre
Are you ready for a spring season of fabulous entertainment at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch?! Featuring Shakespeare’s darkest and spookiest thriller Macbeth, the world premiere of Maggie May by award-winning theatre, TV and radio writer Frances Poet and the brand new musical, celebrating the very best of Essex, Love Letters. If you’re planning to see two or more of these shows you can take advantage of our Season Ticket packages. It offers up to 45% off top-price tickets.
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Gut
Stranger danger. How do you parent in a world that has lost its innocence? Can you trust your gut? Show more by Frances Poet Stranger danger. How do you parent in a world that has lost its innocence? Can you trust your gut? For Lucy one possible incident infects her marriage, her family and her sanity. Lucy ..... Jeany Spark Rory ..... Joseph Kloska Morven ..... Jessica Turner Joshua ..... Elizabeth Poet Strangers .....
How Adam, the cross-continental true story of a trans man, was made
Adam tells the true story of a young trans man, and his journey from Egypt to Scotland. The director, Cora Bissett, first approached me in 2015. She had met Adam Kashmiry at an event for refugees and Scots at the Citizens Theatre in which he shared his story of being born a girl in Egypt and having to travel to Glasgow to become the man he knew he was.
Scotties - National Theatre Scotland
‘Beir abhaile ár marbh. Send home our dead’. A telegram sent from the Irish to the British Government in 1937 inspires the untold story of ten young lads, from Achill Island, who lost their lives in a Scottish bothy fire. The effects reach across the sea, waking the soul of a young Glasgow boy today as he struggles to find his voice.
Gut - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
We can reason with our heart, we can rationalise inside our heads. Yet we find it so very difficult to persuade a gut instinct. A visceral, primal stance which has a uniquely tangible feeling when we feel something wrong. It is, however, the blindest feeling we place trust in. Frances Poet’s new piece of writing; Gut, presents the concerns a young mother has when all three disagree surrounding the perceived threats to her three-year-old son.
Adam - Coming Soon to Greenock, Dundee, Brighton and London
Adam is the remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make that choice. From Egypt to Scotland, it charts Adam’s fight across borders and genders to find a place to call home. Our award-winning production of Adam returns to the stage following a phenomenally successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017.
National Theatre of Scotland
'In a factory like this, you're part of a team. You're a family' Greenock 1981. Faced with the threat of their factory closing, and with 240 jobs on the line, there's no way the women of the Lee Jeans factory are going down without a fight. They barricade the doors, take a stand against corporate greed and stage a sit-in that lasts for 7 long months.
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