SCOTLAND’S NEW WRITING THEATRE – SOMETHING NEW FOR EVERYONE

Welcome to the Traverse’s Autumn Season

We hope you’ll be inspired by a season that celebrates innovation and creativity across all the art forms, from the new writing that you know us best for, to dance, new music, puppetry and physical theatre.

The Dark Things was the first play commissioned by the Traverse that I read when I started here as Artistic Director. I loved it at the time and have been determined to see it on stage ever since. It’s funny, beautiful and haunting.

The modern and the classic merge in An Argument about Sex. Marivaux’s ground-breaking original, The Dispute, now a classic, is brought startlingly up to date by Pamela Carter in this coproduction with Stuart Laing’s untitled projects and Tramway. The show is performed in both our theatre spaces. Tickets are limited so book early for this unmissable experience.

Young Traverse

We have also programmed Young Traverse, a distinct strand of new work for families and young people this season, headlined by Zorro. Zorro promises to be both intimate and epic swashbuckling fun. Visible Fictions are an internationally successful children’s theatre company and I am delighted the Traverse is joining forces with them to present something totally different for families this Christmas.

Autumn Festival

The Traverse is home to new work of all different forms. To celebrate this, we are holding a mini-festival of some of the best and most exciting new opera, music, dance and puppetry. For two weeks the building will be buzzing with some of the most innovative companies in the UK. In particular, this mini-festival celebrates the best work from Scotland, including our internationally recognised choreographers, composers, conductors and puppeteers.

This spirit of innovation is alive in all our work this autumn, home-grown and visiting, whether its kids’ shows or serious drama, opera or contemporary dance, there’s something new for everyone this autumn.

And there’s plenty of opportunity for you to engage and participate – whether it’s as an audience member, a brand-new or established writer, or someone who enjoys getting underneath the experience of creating new work for the stage.

See you there!

Dominic Hill
Artistic Director