Who’s afraid to take on US classic?

From Emma Stone and Viola Davis stealing the limelight at the Oscars, to Billie Piper and Glenda Jackson taking centre stage in the London West End, 2017 has been a golden year for actresses.

Rapture Theatre celebrates this seminal year for actresses by producing a season of iconic American masterpieces that feature some of the most formidable, complex, flawed and iconic female characters ever to written.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will visit the Macrobert on May 3 and 4.

A marathon night of late night drinking, debauchery and duplicity develops as Martha and her husband George invite unsuspecting young couple, Nick and Honey, around for a nightcap.

Drinks flow, spiked with vicious humour, acerbic wit and tempestuous verbal sparring. However, as night turns to morning, searing secrets are exposed.

Putting the ‘fun’ into dysfunctional, Woolf wryly exposes the dark attraction in relationships.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the multi-Oscar winning film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, this is a rare opportunity to experience an iconic American masterpiece.

Rapture’s production will feature Rose Reynolds, Robin Kingsland and Paul Albertson, with Scottish actress Sara Stewart leading the cast as the iconic Martha in the role made famous by Taylor.

Sara will be well known to audiences from her appearances in Rebus, Doctor Foster, The Night Manager and Batman Begins.

She also recently appeared on the West End stage in Hay Fever and has played opposite Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will mark a homecoming to Scotland for Sara.

Her first professional role was in the King’s Edinburgh panto opposite the legendary Stanley Baxter.

The show will be directed by Rapture artistic director Michael Emans.

In September, Rapture will be bringing another American great to the Macrobert stage in Tennessee Williams’ famous A Streetcar Named Desire.