Lorenzo Mele’s directorial debut for 7:84 Theatre Company puts Scotland’s public services under the spotlight with a tour of Private Agenda from 7 September to 23 October.

What is it really like working in Scotland’s public services today?  Will the much-heralded Private Finance Initiatives sweeping across Scotland save the day or sink the nation into debt?

Who better to answer these questions than those at the heart of the matter?

The campaigners and teachers, pupils, midwives, doctors, porters, nurses, technicians, accountants and senior managers toiling in our public services have created Private Agenda, the extraordinary new play from 7:84 Theatre Company.

Based entirely on true stories gathered during interviews in 2004, 7:84 Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, Lorenzo Mele, has travelled across Scotland to go beyond the jargon and discovers that the truth really is stranger than fiction.

This is a surreal and maddening journey that starts with a trip over the Bridge to Skye, uncovers corporate cuts in Caithness, finds fighting in Fort William and pillaging in Perth’s Royal Infirmary.  Private Agenda goes behind the scenes at the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and examines the blueprints of the new schools popping up on every corner in every town.

Directed by Lorenzo Mele and featuring Tom Freeman (Romeo and Juliet), Anita Vettesse (Educating Rita), Laura Smales (The Chrysalids) and Keith Macpherson (The Trial – how new labour purged George Galloway), Private Agenda is the voice of our public services, a voice that has gone unheard.  Until now.

After every performance of Private Agenda, 7:84 will create Public Space. This will be an opportunity for audiences to air their views face to face with an invited panel including MSPs and local campaigners.

For further information contact Marianne Maxwell, 7:84’s Marketing Manager on 0141 334 6686 or email marianne@784theatre.com

Tour Schedule

• Ryan Centre   Stranraer   Tue 7th Sep
• Palace Theatre  Kilmarnock  Wed 8th Sep
• Carnegie Hall    Dunfermline  Thurs 9th Sep
• Brunton Theatre  Musselburgh  Fri 10th – Sat 11th Sep
• Gordons School  Huntly   Tue 14th Sep
• Lossiemouth High School Lossiemouth  Wed 15th Sep
• Deeside Theatre  Aboyne  Thurs 16th Sep
• The Lemon Tree  Aberdeen  Fri 17th Sep
•  Dalrymple Arts Centre Fraserburgh  Sat 18th Sep
• The Arches   Glasgow  Tue 21st – Sat 25th Sep
• Cumbernauld Theatre Cumbernauld  Wed 29th Sep
• Theatre Royal   Dumfries  Sat 2nd Oct
• Perth Theatre   Perth   Tue 5th – Thurs 7th Oct
• Aros    Portree, Skye  Sat 9th Oct
• Mill Theatre   Thurso   Tue 12th Oct
• Nevis Centre   Fort William  Wed 13th Oct
• Ballachuilish Village Hall Ballachuilish  Fri 15th Oct  
• Corran Halls    Oban   Sat 16th Oct
• Traverse Theatre  Edinburgh  Tue 19th – Sat 23rd Oct