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Ewan McGregor and Alan Cumming to Join Cast for New Theatre Play
Ewan McGregor and Alan Cumming will play the lead roles in Harry Macqueen’s stage version of the film, which explores dementia and long-term love.
- Scottish actors Ewan McGregor and Alan Cumming will star in a stage adaptation of the 2020 film Supernova at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2027, marking their first joint theatrical performance.
- Playwright Harry Macqueen is adapting his own screenplay for the stage, telling the story of Sam and Tusker, a couple together for 20 years navigating Tusker's early-onset dementia diagnosis during a road trip.
- Director John Tiffany will reunite with movement director Steven Hoggett and designer Jamie Harrison, who worked on Stranger Things: The First Shadow and is promising to give the show "new scale."
- Artistic Director Alan Cumming is leveraging the high-profile casting to support a 75th anniversary appeal aimed at raising £500,000 by the end of this year during his second season at the theatre.
- Running from July 24 until August 21, 2027, the production is billed by Pitlochry Festival Theatre as "an unmissable, searing examination of what we are willing to do for the people we love.
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Trainspotting and Tip Toe Legend confirmed for on-stage remake of beloved Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci film
Scottish stars Alan Cumming and Ewan McGregor are preparing to share the stage next summer for a new adaptation of Harry Macqueen's 2020 film, Supernova.The Top Toe and Trainspotting actors will be performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Perthshire, where Cumming works as Artistic Director.Supernova is an acclaimed romance drama which originally starred Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as Sam and Tusker; a couple whose lives are shaken by T…
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Ewan McGregor and Alan Cumming to Lead Scottish Stage Adaptation of Harry Macqueen’s Gay Romantic Drama ‘Supernova’
Harry Macqueen has adapted his film Supernova for stage, which will star Ewan McGregor and Alan Cumming and run at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre
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Ewan McGregor and Alan Cumming to join cast for new theatre play
The play is an adaptation of a 2020 hit film.
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