Mayfesto

The Tron Theatre's annual mini-festival Mayfesto celebrates powerful new writing that is both provocative and engrossing!

About Mayfesto

Mayfesto is the Tron’s mini-festival of edgy and provocative new work. With the world around us seemingly forever on a knife-edge, we bring you a cavalcade of escape artists.

Eve Nicol and Andy Edwards are our Resident Artists for the festival, with Eve directing a brand-new work for Scotland, The Mistress Contract, which sets out to establish clear cut rules of engagement between the sexes in a complicated world of blurred lines and grey areas. Inspired by the memoir of real-life couple, SHE and HE, Abi Morgan’s play is bruisingly candid. Andy Edward’s work-in-progress piece, Arketype is a tragic-comic revisioning of Noah’s Ark – a retelling of the famous flood myth against a contemporary world of rising sea levels and men whose boats we don’t need.

Amid the current political climate, Johnny McKnight reworks Dario Fo’s hilarious 70s farce, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! as Low Pay? Don’t Pay! where the action moves to Glasgow and a group of women lose patience with low pay and rising prices and take direct action. Gav Prentice, fresh from a residency with the National Theatre of Scotland presents his first play, Turn the Night, bringing the sounds of a real night out into the theatre. Apphia Campbell’s Woke, set against a powerful soundtrack of original music and traditional gospel and blues, focuses on two women, 42 years apart who become involved in the struggle for human rights and Electrolyte is WILDCARD’s multi-award-winning piece of gig theatre that powerfully explores mental health.

We’re delighted to have a piece for younger audiences this Mayfesto, in the shape of Imaginate and Stellar Quines’ This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing. This new play suitable for ages 7yrs+ is an empowering contemporary fairy-tale about determination, friendship and the ups and downs of growing older. We’ve also got the Fringe First-winning Status, scratch performance AWOL from ThickSkin, the latest rehearsed reading in Fire Exit’s Pyromania programme, Tomorrow, Under Snow and a visually sumptuous version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland from Ireland’s longest running theatre ensemble Blue Raincoat (Shackleton, The Third Policeman).

This year’s Mayfesto is a brilliant opportunity to escape and enjoy the very best in new engaged and engaging work. We look forward to welcoming you down here.

Upcoming Events at Mayfesto

Status

24th May 2019 - 25th May 2019

Status, at the Tron Theatre, is a globe-spanning journey of attempted escape, with songs along the way!

Alice in Wonderland

29th May 2019 - 1st June 2019

From the creative team that brought you Shackleton and The Third Policeman comes a fast-paced visual and imaginative rendition of the timeless classic, Alice in Wonderland!

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