Tron Theatre has introduced Artistic Director Jemima Levick’s inaugural season for 2025 – a creative programme that champions daring and modern work; putting the Tron on the forefront of making and presenting prime quality and bold theatre that represents and displays the variety of the world, each regionally and globally. Jemima’s inventive imaginative and prescient is underpinned by 4 strands – transformation – reimagining and reinvigorating basic performs to make sure they converse to the right here and now; rediscovery – respiration new life into the Scottish canon; originality – commissioning the easiest writers and artists to create new performs and pantomimes; and nationwide delight – connecting and presenting work to our native communities, working with nationwide companions and co-producers to serve the touring circuit, thus extending the Tron Theatre’s attain and touching extra lives.
Each of the Tron Theatre Company productions for 2025 will allude to how a way of place and self are outlined by emotions of residence and belonging – the theme for the season – whether or not that’s an immigrant searching for the appropriate to stay, an obsession with a flag or discovering your means residence after an journey down a rabbit gap. First up in 2025 can be Jemima’s directorial debut – a re-visioning of Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge (21 Feb – 15 Mar 2025). Originally produced in 1955 and never staged in Scotland for over ten years, the story on this basic drama about deep-rooted and dangerously illicit want pivots on questions of citizenship, immigration and the appropriate to stay and has a powerful resonance with what’s occurring in each Glasgow and the world now.
This can be adopted by the Studio3 season, presenting new work from among the most enjoyable playwriting voices working in Scotland immediately. The three performs forming this mini-rep season had been all first commissioned by A Play, A Pie & A Pint and can now get a Changing House Studio revival. Each play, the thriller Alright Sunshine by Isla Cowan, directed by Debbie Hannan; absurdist comedy Fleg by Meghan Tyler, directed by Dominic Hill in affiliation with the Citizens Theatre; and rom-com Fruitcake by Frances Poet, directed by Jemima Levick can be offered as stand-alone performances; and there can be hosted occasion days the place all three exhibits can be carried out throughout a single afternoon (Wednesdays and Saturdays) for the theatre die-hards, with particular meals affords accessible from our café-bar to maintain audiences sustained all through the day (24 Apr – 17 May 2025). As a part of Tron Theatre’s dedication to connecting with communities in our locale to achieve new audiences throughout town, Fruitcake may even embark on a 6-venue tour in partnership with Glasgow Life from 22-31 May, visiting venues in Barlanark, Barrowfield, Whiteinch, Barmulloch, Knightswood and a particular efficiency on the Lodging House Mission.
The Tron Theatre Company summer time manufacturing can be Douglas Maxwell’s Man’s Best Friend (19 Jun – 12 July 2025, Press Performance: Tue 24 Jun, 7.30pm). Undisputedly one in all Scotland’s main playwrights, Jemima first encountered a Douglas Maxwell play, Our Bad Magnet on the Tron within the 12 months 2000 as a drama pupil, and it felt solely becoming that she ought to direct one in all his performs in her first season. Jordan Young will play Ronnie within the one-man present that has a universality to it – a coronary heart that speaks to canine lovers, to individuals residing with loneliness and loss and to anybody who must settle into the place they belong. Man’s Best Friend will then embark on a nationwide tour within the Autumn of 2025, visiting cities and cities throughout Scotland together with Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, Edinburgh, Greenock and Inverness.
In the autumn, Tron Theatre Company and Traverse Theatre Company will co-produce Uma Nada-Rajah’s Black Hole Sign (19 Sept – 4 Oct 2025) in affiliation with National Theatre of Scotland. Set in a crumbling and understaffed A&E division in Glasgow, Black Hole Sign takes a razor-sharp scalpel to the absurdities, tragedies and hilarity inside one in all our most beloved however besieged establishments, the NHS. Originally commissioned by the Traverse Theatre and directed by Gareth Nicholls, Black Hole Sign will transfer to the Traverse Theatre for a two-week run (8-17 October) following its world premiere and run on the Tron’s foremost stage.
The 2025 pantomime can be one other refresh of one in all Johnny McKnight’s early works – this time from 2017, Gallus in Weegieland (22 Nov 2025 – 4 Jan 2026). Directed by Sally Reid, it’s a wild journey down a mysterious pothole to a land stuffed with strange-talking creatures and a maniacal power-hungry Queen, packed stuffed with all the standard Tron panto logos – irreverence, hilarity and on-the-nose cultural references.
In the primary auditorium, the visiting programme opens with Scottish Opera’s The Story of Healing: Breath Cycle on Stage (1 Feb), an interactive night of music and storytelling. This is adopted by a revival of Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing (5-8 February), first offered ten years in the past and successful on the 2024 Fringe, about despair and the lengths we are going to go to for those we love. In March, Wonder Fools in affiliation with D&G Arts Live, current their model new work The Kelton Hill Fair (26 – 29 March) a riveting journey by means of time to mysterious honest led by the legendary Billy Marshall. This can be adopted by the National Theatre of Scotland’s Through the Shortbread Tin (4 & 5 April), the story of the best literary hoax of all time and an oral odyssey exploring Scottish tradition, myths, historical past and id. The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BA Performance college students current Frank Wedekind’s explosive play Spring Awakening (7 – 10 May) in a combination of BSL and English and Gilded Balloon deliver top-tier comedy and the most well liked new expertise within the type of their Big Comedy Roadshow (21 May). We additionally welcome cult multi-award-winning musical-comedians Jonny & The Baptists with The Happiness Index (24 May) – their private and political present about our want, and the nation’s wrestle, to simply be blissful and our visiting programme for the primary half of the 12 months concludes with one other Wonder Fools challenge – the Positive Stories for Negative Times Festival (7 & 8 Jun).
In the Changing House studio house, the visiting firm season opens with Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters (7 & 8 March), an intimate, humorous, filthy, and transferring solo present from Rachel Mars that triangulates the intercourse and love letters of long-dead artists, modern sexts and a meditation on the development of the queer feminine physique; Daniel Bye’s Imaginary Friends (14 & 15 March), a wild hallucinatory journey by means of the trying glass of twenty-first-century tradition; Liam Rees with The Land That Never Was (21 & 22 March), mixing confessional stand-up, storytelling, and a complete lot of bullshit in a present that appears to the previous to look at the place we come from, the place we are actually, and what the long run might appear like; and closes with Penguin (22 & 23 May), Hamzeh al Hussien’s extraordinary story of his life each outdoors and inside his head – crammed with music, dancing, fantasies and marbles.
Alongside work for each the primary auditorium and the studio house, there can be a continuation of our Tron Creative and Community Engagement programmes, with alternatives for Scotland’s thriving freelance group of artists and creatives to interact with us; and a sequence of thrilling new initiatives for younger individuals, our native communities and faculties to get entangled with. We may even pilot a brand new Associate Artist programme, to assist a challenge with a particular enquiry that’s each related to and embedded within the East End of town. Victoria Beesley would be the Tron’s first community-based Associate Artist, working with the Marie Curie Hospice in Springburn. In one other partnership, with Tom Piper and Caroline Hall, the Tron’s former visionary inventive director Michael Boyd is commemorated in a photographic exhibition (from June 2025) celebrating the work of theatre photographers, together with Sean Hudson.
Says Jemima of her 2025 season: ‘We want to take audiences on a journey – entertaining, challenging and celebrating stories that encapsulate all perspectives of life. We invite them to forge ahead with us towards an exciting new future for the Tron Theatre and I’m delighted to current a season of daring and modern work that, I consider does simply that, providing one thing for everybody.’
Tron Theatre Company’s programme of labor for the 2025 season, and the visiting programme for the primary half of the 12 months, will go on-sale on Wednesday 27 November at 11am with all performances accessible to e book on-line (www.tron.co.uk), by phone on 0141 552 4267 or in particular person at our Box Office. (*excluding Gallus in Weegieland, which is able to go on-sale in early February 2025).
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