Future Acts + Q&A
<div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cinematic collage of six surprising, Scottish short stories pitching audiences into the future. </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Future Acts </i>is created by a team of celebrated and award-winning Scottish theatrical and film talent.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Produced by National Theatre of Scotland, in association with Shakehaus productions and distributed in cinemas across Scotland by Cosmic Cat.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In partnership with BBC Scotland and s<span style="font-size: 12pt;">upported by The Weir Charitable Trust.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">__________________________________________________________________</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The National Theatre of Scotland has joined forces once more with BBC Scotland to create a special hybrid project focussed on the future, created by a young and more experienced team of leading Scottish theatre-makers, filmmakers, actors and artists.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The future has been foraged by six writing and directing teams for a series of interlinked modern shorts; Ai, cultural identity dating, queer love, climate change and cloning; the personal and the political, are all playfully explored.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The six shorts embrace theatrical and filmic genres and have been sited in distinctive Scottish locations including a bunker, a bed shop, a beer garden, a coastal path and a caravan. </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>BED TO THE FUTURE </i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writer/Director: James Ley </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Performed by Martin Quinn and Jay Newton</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A young Scottish queer couple visit a futuristic bed shop where a simulator promises to reveal the perfect future for their relationship. Only it’s not quite what they had imagined.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>UN-STATIC</i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writer: Natali McCleary</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Director: Josefa Celestin</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Performed by Maureen Carr and James Dawoud.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A young man summons a Unicorn in search of answers about identity, belonging and purpose, embarking on a magical journey between the weight of the past and the promise of the future.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>BROTH</i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writer: Lesley Hart</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Director: Sally Reid</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Performed by Carmen Pierracini and Ryan J Mackay</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After an on-air meltdown derails her career, former news anchor Rona Lawson is sent to report from a disappearing coastline. There, an unexpected friendship helps her discover that the future is not yet written.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>SMOKE </i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writer: Kieran Hurley</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Director: Rianne White </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Performed by Nicolette McCormack with narration by Shirley Manson</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This evocative and visually striking film explores the urgency and fear at the heart of the climate crisis.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>OPTIMUM </i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writer: Uma Nada-Rajah</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Director: Stewart Laing </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Performed by Anna Russell Martin and Ross Mann</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two strangers meet for a date in a Glasgow beer garden. An AI system has declared them to be optimally matched. There’s no need for guess work or uncertainty. But can an algorithm really predict love?</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>STILL ALIVE</i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writer/Director: Hope Dickson Leach</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Performed by Keith Fleming and Nadia Albina</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hector wakes up, cloned into a younger body by a dubious biotechnology company, his only company, a temp worker, at the end of a very long shift. He soon discovers that a second chance at life may not be everything he hoped for.</div>PT1HCTBC2026-10-01Future Acts + Q&A"Future Acts + Q&A"Showtimes
October 1, 6:00 pm
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