Are you ready to meet Jan Black?

Scotland’s star of stage and screen, Maureen Beattie teams up with Gaiety Theatre and Wonder Fools for a new dark comedy, Meet Jan Black written by Johnny McKnight.

Jan’s last year was a total horror show – and she had a corkscrew spiral perm in ‘89, so she knows a thing or two about heartache and misery. But no more. It’s a New Year. A new Jan. She’s got a fire in her belly and a new show she’s desperate to rehearse. After a full year am-dram company The Gaiety Whirlers are back and ready to take to the stage. Only… lockdown’s still not been lifted, has it? But Jan is determined and channelling Queen: the SHOW will go on – she just has to navigate rehearsing over Zoom, dealing with a most unwelcome participant, oh and the small matter of how the hell do you do a musical when some of the Whirlers don’t even have 4G.

A new comedy that takes Year of the Rona and replaces it with Year of the Jan. It’s a show for anyone who wanted to run down the street screaming NO every time we had another zoom call to make; for those who saw the families on Gogglebox more than their own; and for all us who want to put that last year behind them and get back in the theatre, to return to that sense of being together as a community. A hilarious show guaranteed to make us feel closer to each other than we have all of last year.

Supported by Creative Scotland and South Ayrshire Council.

Originally live streamed from 1 - 3 April from the Ayr Gaiety Theatre and then available on demand April - May 2021.