Garry Boyle

Totentanz (2023)

In a dance hall, two performers try to create the perfect dance of death - and fail each time. Over the course of the evening, they try out different shapes, different styles, different (sometimes glittering) costumes - trying and failing, laughing, kicking, and screaming, all in an effort to make the perfect totentanz. A cry against the unknown. A final dance at the afterparty. Witness their outrageous struggle, and peer into the mystery of death, and life.

James IV - Queen of the Fight (2022)

Scotland, 1504, seen fresh through the eyes of new arrivals Ellen and Anne, two Moorish ​ women who were expected to take their place at a royal court....but not this one. Both women now have to fight to find and keep a place in the dazzling, dangerous world of the Scottish Court of James IV. It’s a world where war is never far away, words of love and promises of peace are not what they seem and where poets might turn out to be more dangerous than any assassin.

The Stamping Ground (2022)

A new musical, featuring the songs of Runrig, about love, life and the land.

ADAM (2021) TV Film

Produced by National Theatre of Scotland and Hopscotch Films

Commissioned by BBC Scotland and BBC Arts

Winner of BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Television Scripted in 2021.

Interference (2019)

Interference is a trilogy of near future plays. Staged in an empty office block transformed with vivid projection and atmospheric soundscapes. It asks the question: will technology interfere with what we really need from each other?

What Girls Are Made Of (2019)

Grunge has just gone global, scruffy indie kids are inheriting the earth, and a schoolgirl from Glenrothes is catapulted to a rock star lifestyle as the singer in a hot new indie band. Touring with Radiohead, partying with Blur, she was living the dream. Until she wasn’t.

Based on her meticulously detailed, pull-no-punches teenage diaries, this is the true story of Cora Bissett’s rollercoaster journey from the girl she was to the woman she wanted to be.

The Spinners (2020)

The Spinners is an exhilarating ride into myth and imagination from renowned Scottish director Al Seed and award-winning Australian choreographer and dancer Lina Limosani as they plunge audiences into the story of the Fates of Greek mythology.

ADAM (2017)

If you are born in a country where being yourself can get you killed, exile is your only choice.

Adam is the remarkable, true story of a young trans man having to make that choice and begin his journey. From Egypt to Scotland, it charts Adam’s fight across borders and genders to find a place to call home.

Glasgow Girls (2016 / 2017 / 2019)

The life-affirming Scottish musical drama, based on the true story of seven feisty Glaswegian teenagers, whose lives change forever when their school friend and her asylum-seeking family are forcibly taken from their home to be deported. The ‘Glasgow Girls’ are galvanised to fight for her rights, inspiring a whole community to unite behind its residents.

Janis Joplin Full Tilt (2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2018)

On stage a woman stands, the greatest rock singer of her generation. Standing around her is the hottest band that a record company can buy. In front of her, an audience of thousands of expectant fans. She is Janis Joplin. She is utterly alone.

A celebration of a sound, a scream of protest at the universe. Full Tilt.

GRIT: The Martyn Bennett Story (2014)

GRIT told the painful yet inspiring story of a young man’s phenomenal musical imagination, and his fierce fight against the cancer which ultimately robbed him of his short life at 33. His passion, his fierce love of life, music, the country and people who inspired his ground breaking creations were evoked and explored visually, physically and immersively in this highly ambitious musical adventure.

Beats Per Minute (2018)

Inside a geodesic dome in George Square, in the heart of the city, this immersive 30 minute audio-visual event invites you to get inside the beating hearts and heads of athletes who dedicate their lives to their sport at incredible cost. 

Wearing headphones and vibrating Subpacs attached to your body and surrounded by projections you will enter into the world of the athletes and experience their hopes, their dreams and their adrenaline-fuelled victories.

Music is Torture (2017)

Music Is Torture is a darkly comic piece of gig-theatre.

The show is set in Limbo Recording Studios and tells the story of jaded music producer Jake, who discovers that a track he produced is being used to torture political prisoners and charts his subsequent moral dilemma.

The piece is inspired by the research of musicologist, Dr. M. J. Grant, into the use of music to promote, facilitate and accompany violent response to conflict.

How To Choose? (2014)

With the independence referendum looming, Scotland is facing a momentous decision. In this production, Gary McNair and Davey Anderson explore some questions about the nature of choice. How do we choose, and how can we know if it is the right decision?