"Noirish thriller" co-production at heart of Tron season

Published: 30 July 2016
Reporter: David Chadderton

Rob Drummond's Grain in the Blood

Glasgow's Tron Theatre will partner with Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre to produce the première of Rob Drummond's Grain in the Blood as the centrepiece of its autumn and winter season.

Drummond's play is set during harvest in an "eerie rural community" and "explores the timely moral dilemma of how much we are prepared to sacrifice for the greater good".

Summer Heart is another co-production, with Maraike Bruening, that examines the life of classical pianist Alice Herz-Sommer who, until her death in 2014, was known as the oldest living Holocaust survivor.

Another collaborative production sees Tron working again with Theatre Jezebel on Mad Men and House of Cards writer Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, in which Andy Clark and Robbie Jack play two Chicago cops whose bond is put to the test when they're called out to a domestic disturbance that takes a turn for the worst.

Also appearing in the main house will be Pat Kinevane with Forgotten, Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs, Mark Thomas with The Red Shed and Company Chordelia and Solar Bear's dance theatre piece Lady Macbeth: unsex me here.

The Changing House programme opens with ZENDEH's work-in-development Transit exploring the impact of the shooting down of Iran Air flight 655 followed by Gary McNair's Fringe First-winning A Gambler's Guide to Dying, some of Scotland's finest clowns in Clown Cabaret Scratch Night, Gerry Mulgrew in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape directed by Paul Brotherston, Andy McGregor's fast and furious new comedy The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Lucas Petit, new play Where the Crow Flies and the return of Scenes Unseen: Rehearsed Readings with work by D C Jackson, Sue Glover and Douglas Maxwell alongside the work of new writers supported by Playwrights' Studio Scotland.

For the festive season, there will be Johnny McKnight's panto The Snaw Queen, plus, for 3- to 6-year-olds, The Night After Christmas.

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