The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. He also reached the final round of Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award (2011) and won the BBC’s inaugural Scriptroom competition (2012). The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O'Brien's legendary rock 'n' roll musical, is back to thrill you once again at The Pavilion Theatre Glasgow in 2024!

Other award recognition includes being shortlisted for the Channel 4/Oran Mor Comedy Drama Award (2012), the Papatango New Writing Prize (2012), the Alfred Fagon Award (2011, 2012, 2015), the BBC’S Alfred Bradley Award (2011) and OffWestEnd’s Adopt a Playwright Award (2010 and 2009).It makes use of the Pitlochry Studio gallery, taking the painstaking time to ensure Austin the ability to wander his eye throughout the ‘court’ as the onlookers, both audience and jury in some respects, make their choice where to look; but the least they can do is hold Austin’s gaze. And both the BBC and The Times have named the play in their lists of shows you won’t want to miss in 2020/Cultural Highlights of the year to come. Based on a true story, Enough of Him explores the life of Joseph Knight, an African man brought to Scotland as a slave, by plantation owner John Wedderburn to serve in his Perthshire mansion. Set at Ballindean – the Perthshire mansion of Knight’s “owner” Sir John Wedderburn, whose fortune was made in the sugar plantations of Jamaica – this is a powerful and pungent 80 minutes of drama. Although set in Scotland, memories of the hell on Earth that was the slave colony in Jamaica are ever present in Knight and Wedderburn’s minds.

There we witness the distorted power relations between Wedderburn, his young wife Margaret, Knight and the servant Annie Thompson, who would become Knight’s wife. After the brutal things they would have been exposed to, how did they then, ten years later, come back to ‘civilised life’ and not be impacted by that? Enough of Him received the award for Best New Play at the 2023 UK Theatre Awards as well as both Best Production and Best New Play at the 2023 Critic’s Award for Theatre in Scotland.All information (whether in text or photographs) is supplied in good faith but should not be relied upon as being a statement of representation or fact. Nicola is in conversation with playwright May Sumbwanyambe and actor Omar Austin, hearing about new National Theatre of Scotland production Enough of Him, about Joseph Knight, the first man to win his freedom in a Scottish Court of law. The trauma of slavery impacts everybody, not just the person who is being enslaved,” says Sumbwanyambe.