Peter Arnott returns to A Play, A Pie and A Pint after 2019’s award-winning The Signalman with his 50^th professionally produced play.

A man and a woman are on stage and there’s something going on between them…but what is it?

At first, you think it’s one thing. Then it’s something else. Maybe a flirtation, a thriller, a crime story? Maybe it’s all happened before? Maybe it’s a joke? Maybe it’s just a Variant…

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Variant was commissioned by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Peter Arnott held the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship in 2017.

The Traverse Theatre is funded by Creative Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council, and has received additional support from the Scottish Government's Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund and Creative Scotland’s Recovery Fund for Cultural Organisations.

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