Saltire Sky’s Shows
– “MANikin is an accomplished, perceptive and expertly staged play, addressing topics highly relevant to modern life but rarely featured in traditional theatre.” The Edinburgh Reporter
– “This is an excellent, considered production that speaks unspoken truths in a brilliantly accessible format. Go for the comedy, go for the drama – but go and hear what is being said.” Everything Theatre
It’s lonely at the top, especially at the top of Scotland. Set in the small Town of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, join Fraser Patterson as he wrestles with his mind and body in his struggle with playing the bit-part role of The Big Guy.
Brutal playground initiation evolves into real-world tribulation in a society riddled with stigma and prejudice. From Saltire Sky, the Offie and Broadway Baby Bobby Award-winning company, MANikin provides an honest interrogation of society’s views on obesity and body image, seeking how these issues arise, escalate and become life threatening.
Upcoming performances
Hibs Supporters Club
August 2026
7 – 10th, 12 – 15th
6pm
“Can’t recommend this great show highly enough. You don’t have to know anything about football to enjoy it. Great acting, writing and directing.”
Irvine Welsh, Scottish Playwright (Trainspotting)
It’s 2016. Hibernian F.C. haven’t won the Scottish Cup since 1902. Now, four guys in their early twenties would do anything to see the final against the Rangers…
Upcoming performances
Winner: Best Scottish Theatre Award 2022 (Scottish Arts Club). ***** (BroadwayBaby.com, TheatreScotland.co.uk, LondonTheatre1.com, EdFringeReview.com).
Everybody takes drugs. Matty didn’t take them seriously. Follow the exploits of Tommy, Matty and Dougie as they look to ditch the day job for the disco. Bits N’ Pieces highlights the dangers of drug stigma and misinformation in a modern society. The play takes an access-all-areas approach to working-class life and what it’s like to come of age at the height of Scotland’s drug crisis. Temptation, tunes and terror from every angle in this assault on the senses.