Midsummer [a play with songs] is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery.

It is Midsummer’s weekend in Edinburgh. It is raining. Two 30somethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. He is a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city’s underworld and she is a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people’s husbands. She is out of his league and he is not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together… ever… which is why they do.

Featuring Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon as the ill-advised love match, Midsummer is a quirky, charming love story by one of Scotland’s leading playwrights, David Greig and top Edinburgh singer/songwriter, Gordon McIntyre of the band Ballboy.

Midsummer was a hit at the Edinburgh Festival before successfully transferring to London.

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