Past Productions:

114 productions, 266 playwrights

A Paines Plough and Òran Mór production

Dig
by Katie Douglas

October – November 2011

A small masterpiece...rich and shattering
**** The Scotsman

Devastatingly effective
**** Edinburgh Evening News

Dig by Katie Douglas

Synopsis

They've stripped away and stolen but I won't take a thing. I'm here. I'm strong. Lean on me.

Tommy’s feeling hard done by. He's been the boss for 20 years but now his dream has come tumbling down, what's he got to show for it?

His brother Dean makes a quick buck as a cabbie. Dean’s got a surprise for Tommy to cheer him up – a job with the cab company.

Brenda, Tommy’s dutiful wife, just wants a decent vacuum and two weeks in Butlins.

In an unstable world, what matters more – your pride or providing?

The return of the legendary A Play, A Pie And A Pint.

Three brand new plays co-produced with Òran Mór and premiering in Glasgow before touring to venues across the UK – with a pie and a pint thrown in.

Katie Douglas is a prize-winning scriptwriter whose work has spanned stage, film/TV and radio, both here and in the States. Katie was a writer on attachment at the Liverpool Everyman and her first play Fly, was produced there in 2004 to critical acclaim. She has since worked with the RSC, Paines Plough, Ignition/Tristram Bates, Soho and Southwark Playhouse and her works has been shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

DIG by Katie Douglas was developed, in part, with assistance from the Orchard Project, a program of The Exchange (www.exchangenyc.org).