When the audience arrive, a playwright has just finished a new musical and is waiting for the producer’s feedback. Problem is, the producer hates it and there’s only 65 minutes to create something entirely new before the writer loses his funding.

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The poster for ‘A Man’s a Man’ bills it as a “good old fashioned musical” which “sparkles with originality”. Unfortunately, neither of those lofty claims are within reach of this production.

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A musical about loving people not despite their flaws but because of them, ‘I Love You Because’ is a sweet tale of losing and finding love in New York.
Austin and Marcy are all wrong for each other, but they are learning that it is this which makes them perfect for each other.

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As the audience enters the theatre, they are warned that ‘Sweet Charity’ contains strobe lighting and full-frontal nudity: the chat in the queue suggests they’ve also been warned that this show is a must-see because it’s awful.

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Theology and black comedy combine in ‘The Screwtape Letters’. Based on an epistolary novel by C.S. Lewis, this is the tale of two demons, a professor and his student, engaged in tempting a soul.

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Welcome to Titipu! A twist on Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic, ‘The Hot Mikado’ tells the tale of a wandering minstrel who is in fact the son of the ruler of Japan in a heavily jazz and swing influenced style.

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Startling in its intensity, ‘Noh No Noh’ is a quietly surreal fairy tale, very Japanese in character. Three distinct stories are told, based on traditional Japanese Noh theatre, each of which addresses the universal themes of love, death and beauty.

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As the Spooky Men’s Chorale file on to the stage dressed in odd pieces of black clothing, it is clear that beards are preferred and hats are mandatory.

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Quintessentially Scottish in both musical influence and melancholy tone, ‘Love Songs for a Timewaster’ is a gentle portrayal of a very unlikely romance.

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‘Love’s Labour’s Lost and Found’ is a quirky play, which sees couples experiencing marital difficulties arrive as guests on a talk show to work it all through on national television.

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