To celebrate 70 years of the Barony Players, we’re putting together a spectacular line up of shows and events throughout the year. In May, our first adult company show of the year, we bring you our version of a classic and beloved television comedy.

Based on three episodes of the legendary BBC TV sitcom, this hilarious show transports us back to Elizabethan England where the scheming Lord Edmund Blackadder exploits his withering wit and cowardly cunning to seek his fortune at court.

Edmund Blackadder is a prominent man in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, but also one who’d like to have more of the finer things in life, like money, power and influence. Unfortunately, what he’s got is Baldrick, the worst manservant in London, Percy, a fop lacking in brain cells, and a Queen with the emotional maturity of an eleven year old. Watch how he schemes and manoeuvres his way around love, alcohol and being kidnapped with his acerbic wit his only weapon in an insane world.

NODA review on Blackadder II

The Barony Players presenting a trio of the very best and funniest episodes from Curtis and Elton’s second series: ‘Bells’, ‘Beer’, and ‘Chains’.

13th to 18th May 2024.
7:30pm
Licensing fee goes to support the work done by Comic Relief

The next Barony production in its 70^th Year is Midsummer by David Greig with songs by Gordon McIntyre.

A Midsummer weekend in Edinburgh. Its raining. Bob’s a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city’s underworld. Helena’s a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people’s husbands. She’s totally out of his league; he’s not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do.

Midsummer is about a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers.

“Sad, funny and instantly recognisable……..irresistible and unmissable”. The Herald

“All the classy poise and exuberant bounce of a really good pop song” The List

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