How to Act

The liberal West’s failure fully to live out the meaning of its own creed is one of the great themes of our time; and Graham Eatough’s short, intense studio show – a huge 2017 Fringe success for the National Theatre of Scotland – concentrates that narrative into a single hour of explosive theatre, as black drama student Promise confronts a revered British theatre director during a workshop session. For this short tour, Graham Eatough reassembles his brilliant original cast of Robert Goodale and Jade Ogugua; see it, and emerge both sadder and wiser.

Tron, Glasgow, 6-10 March; Traverse, Edinburgh, 13-17 March; Eden Court, Inverness 20-21 March; and Byre, St Andrews, 23 March, www. nationaltheatrescotland.com