A new adaptation of Whisky Galore, a play based on one of Muriel Spark's greatest works, a comedy about a voracious granny and a hard-hitting drama addressing female genital mutilation are all part of a new programme of work by the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS).
From January to June next year the NTS will stage nine new shows in a season being brought to the public under the title of "Belong".
Laurie Sansom, NTS artistic director, said the theme explored the idea of belonging to a community, family or other unit and the stresses and comforts they could provide.
As well as Scottish premieres, previous successes, Let The Right One In and Dunsinane, are to receive their US premieres.
Compton Mackenzie's Whisky Galore is to be adapted as a Gaelic play, Uisge-Beatha Gu Leor, by Iain Finlay MacLeod, artistic director of Robhanis. It will be staged as part of Glasgow's popular A Play, A Pie and a Pint lunchtime drama season, before touring village halls and art centres in Scotland from April 9 to May 15 next year.
Robhanis is a Gaelic language theatre company based on the Isle of Lewis, and the play, in both Gaelic and English, will have English subtitles.
Talks are still ongoing to re-stage The James Plays, the acclaimed historical dramas which were seen by 100,000 people at last summer's Edinburgh International Festival.
Rites, created by Cora Bissett and Yusra Warsama, and directed by Bissett, will tour to Glasgow, Manchester and Edinburgh from May 5-30 next year, opening at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow on May 6.
The production will explore the practice of female genital mutilation (FMG) and is based on true stories and verbatim, first-hand accounts of the practice
Ms Bissett said: "FGM is recognised internationally as a violation of human rights, and it reflects a deep rooted inequality between the sexes.
"There is a groundswell of activity that is happening among young girls of dual heritage, they are born to families from Somalia, from the Sudan, from Gambia, but who are Scottish, British girls and this howl of defiance is coming right now which is one thing I am finding heartening, exciting and invigorating."
Yer Granny is a Scottish take on the most popular play in Argentina, La Nona, by Roberto Cossa, described as a cross between "Dario Fo and Rab C Nesbitt."
It has been translated by Douglas Maxwell and re-set in a fish and chip shop, in 1977, as the Queen visits Scotland to celebrate her Silver Jubilee.
It will be premiered at the King's Theatre, Glasgow, on May 27, and then visit Greenock, Edinburgh, Inverness, Dundee, and Belfast.
The artistic director of the NTS, Laurie Sansom, is adapting and directing The Driver's Seat, by Muriel Spark, which will be premiered at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre on June 23 and also play in Glasgow.
It is the first adaptation for the stage for the book, which was turned into a 1974 film, Identikit, starring Elizabeth Taylor.
Sansom previously directed an acclaimed production of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009.
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