Saba’s Swim
Performed by Sidney Stringer Actors
Seven months ago, Saba walked out of her GCSE mocks and didn’t come back. Her friends don’t understand why. Now, on prom night, Saba’s finally made contact, challenging her friends to track her down via a series of cryptic clues. But when the friends are finally reunited, Saba is different. The way she sees the world has changed. And what she’s asking of her friends… is it more than they can give?
SHOW ADVISORIES:
15+ | Frequent descriptions of war, bombing and death, including the death of infants | Descriptions of drowning | Moderate language | Mention of depression | Depiction of arson | Discussion of prison and criminality | One character smokes onstage
No Regrets
Performed by Flying High Young Company
Over the course of five years, playwright Gary McNair spoke to people at all stages and in all walks of life on the subject of regret. This play marks the results of those conversations. A collection of scenes from the silly to the profound, that charts our relationship with the things we should have done but didn’t and the things we shouldn’t have done, but did.
SHOW ADVISORIES:
14+ | Strong Language | Description of Violence | Mention of Alcohol & Addiction | One scene of a mugging and stabbing | References to death
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Playwright
Danusia Samal
Danusia Samal is an actor, writer & jazz singer from London. In 2018 she won the
Theatre503 International Playwriting Award for ‘Out of Sorts’, which was later shortlisted
for the George Devine Award. Her Garage musical Bangers (in which Danusia also
stars) sold out at Soho Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe. Danusia is also a climate
campaigner, founding the Green Rider to cut film and TV pollution. Screen Writing Credits
include: Doing Good (ZDF); Virdee (BBC) Gangs of London S2 & 3 (Sky); Bodies (Netflix).
Theatre Writing Credits include: Saba’s Swim (NT Connections); Cinderella (Brixton
House); Bangers (Soho/Cardboard Citz/Paines Plough); The Keyworker Cycles (Almeida);
Out of Sorts (Theatre503); Busking It (Shoreditch Town Hall/HighTide).
Gary McNair
Gary McNair is a writer performer based in Glasgow.
He aims to make work that will challenge and entertain audiences in equal measure. His
work has been translated into several languages and been performed around the world
from America to Australia, from Germany to Japan, and from Portugal to Possilpark. He
is a mainstay of the Edinburgh Fringe where his last seven shows have sold out and he
has won the coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award three times.
He is an Associate Artist at both the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and the Tron in
Glasgow. He loves telling stories and is delighted that people want to hear them.
Recent works include; Dear Billy (National Theatre of Scotland), Nae Expectations (The
Tron) Jekyll and Hyde (Reading Rep/The Lyceum) Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil
(The Lyceum), The Alchemist (The Tron), Square Go [co-authored by Kieran Hurley]
(Francesca Moody Productions/Paines Plough), McGonagall’s Chronicles (Oran Mor),
Locker Room Talk/Letters to Morrissey/Donald Robertson Is Not a Standup Comedian
(The Traverse) A Gambler’s Guide To Dying (Show and Tell/The Traverse).