The Trials

Recommended Age 12+ | Contains strong language.

It’s easy for you to accuse me now but you don’t understand.
Everyone lived like we did! Well maybe not everyone, everyone.
But… I wasn’t any worse than anyone else.

The not-too-distant future. A world where the air is unbreathable. A jury of twelve angry teenagers. A chance to put the adults on trial for the devastating damage they have done to the planet.

Can they deliver justice, or are they just out for revenge?

Inventively theatrical, revolutionary, and savagely funny, Dawn King’s play challenges us to imagine the ways we might be held accountable for how we are living our lives.

“Directing The Trials is an incredibly exciting prospect. In a future world destroyed by the climate crisis, the play demands we hand the Tron’s main stage over to a group of teenagers to consider how we, the adults, might be held to account (…or not) for the choices we are making today. Dawn King’s provocation and invitation to make work with both teenage and adult actors feels like a real chance to experience what theatre is best at: asking strangers to sit next to one another in the dark and consider the ways we want to live together. Told with love and humour, with a real emphasis on theatricality, The Trials is an essential play for 2026. It is a play full of life and imagination. To be staging it at the Tron, a theatre which makes work to thrill and entertain Glasgow’s audiences, is a joy. I cannot wait to share it with you.” – Joanna Bowman, Director

Written by DAWN KING
Directed by JOANNA BOWMAN

Image credit: Mihaela Bodlovic