David Greig’s The Events returns

David Greig’s powerful and affecting play The Events embarks on a new tour around Scotland this February.

In a new staging for 2026, with a genuinely unique hook: the company form a brand-new local choir in every venue, so the production is rebuilt each week with different voices from each community.

Set in an ordinary town hall, The Events centres on Claire, a priest and choir leader, after an extraordinary attack shatters her community. In the aftermath, she begins a searching journey towards the person responsible, trying to live with what happened and confront the questions that remain.

First premiered at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013, Greig’s play has become one of the defining Scottish works of the last decade. Wonder Fools return to it now because it speaks directly to the world we’re living in, where public conversation can feel brittle and quick to simplify, and where the work of listening carefully and probing complexities feels newly urgent. The show’s choral structure makes those questions physical. A choir is a group of individuals who have to breathe together, listen together and make room for one another. In this staging, the choir is not an add-on. It is part of the drama’s engine, changing the room night by night because the show is remade with new local singers at each venue.

Wonder Fools arrive at this revival off the back of a standout year of ambitious co-created theatre across Scotland and beyond. Over the last year they delivered six new co-created productions, reached 10,000+ audience members, worked with 4,000 young people, and employed 130 freelancers, a scale that led The Scotsman to describe their community practice as “a blazing powerhouse of invention and activity”.

Director Jack Nurse said “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be returning to The Events by David Greig. It’s a modern Scottish classic that feels even more urgent now than when we first staged the production last year. In a world shaped by polarisation, fear of the ‘other’, and recurring acts of violence in our communities, the play’s questions about belonging, empathy and responsibility feel impossible to ignore. At each venue we’re creating a brand-new local choir, and collaborating with them from the ground up has been a real privilege. Alongside this, Claire Lamont and Sam Stopford form an outstanding professional cast, bringing the play to life with extraordinary vitality and skill. I can’t wait for audiences to experience it.”

The professional cast features Claire Lamont as Claire and Sam Stopford as The Boy. Running time is 90 minutes with no interval.

Dates are Cumbernauld Theatre (12 Feb), Tron, Glasgow (19–21 Feb), Dundee Rep (25 Feb), and Traverse, Edinburgh (27–28 Feb).