Glasgow's Tron Theatre will feature Alison Peebles in Megan Barker's adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts at the heart of its autumn and winter season.
Peebles will play Helen Alving, the local councillor whose carefully-constructed life is shattered by revelations of political corruption and abuse, in a production directed by Andy Arnold and designed by Neil Warmington. Another adaptation of a well-known play is Liz Lochhead's take on Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, titled What Goes Around.
Two dancers and one trapeze artist, all aged over 65, explore ageing and the passing of time in Once Upon A Time as part of Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival, and A J Taudevin’s Mrs Barbour’s Daughters charts a family history of sisterhood and betrayal interwoven with a social history of women’s resistance, re-staged as part of the centenary celebrations of the Glasgow Rent Strikes.
Daniel Bye's new show on the science of epidemics, Going Viral, poses questions about how things spread, and Tamasha returns with My Name Is…, the story of Glasgow girl Molly Campbell’s apparent ‘kidnap’ to Pakistan by her father and the ensuing media furore, plus National Theatre of Scotland will bring its rude adaptation of Alan Warner's The Sopranos, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour.
The Changing House programme opens with Shona Reppe's new show for 5- to 8-year-olds, Magic Sho, about a rabbit who never misses a trick and a magician who sometimes forgets to say the magic word. Eden Court, Inverness will perform Not About Heroes, Stephen MacDonald’s play about the friendship between First World War poets Siegfried Sasson and Wilfred Owen, the first play to be staged at the Tron Theatre when it opened in 1982.
The ephemeral nature of life, growing up and the bittersweet fallibility of memory are explored in Aby Watson’s There’s no point crying over spilt milk, Donna Rutherford explores the experience of elders in the 21st century through soup-making in Broth and Victoria Beesley tells a tale of loss, friendship and courage in My Friend Selma.
In the Vic Bar, Blood of the Young presents the Golden Arm Theatre Project, a mixture of live music and theatre featuring new short works from some of Scotland’s leading playwrights.
Finally, for the Christmas season, David Ireland will write this year's panto, Sleeping Betty, while Lisa Keenan will devise and direct Snow Pals for the studio.