Ewan McGregor will join forces with fellow Perthshire legend Alan Cummings to star in the stage adaptation of the 2020 film Supernova, running from 24th July 21st August 2027 at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Adapted for the stage by writer, actor and filmmaker Harry Macqueen and directed by John Tiffany, the play will see McGregor and Cummings play Sam and Tusker, a couple for 20 years until Tusker is diagnosed with early onset dementia. Click here to book tickets, and expect those seats to go very fast indeed.
Award-winning actors Alan Cumming and Ewan McGregor will lead the company of the world première of the spectacular new stage adaptation of Harry Macqueen’s beautiful, critically acclaimed 2020 film Supernova.
Adapted for the stage by writer, actor and filmmaker Harry Macqueen and directed by John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Black Watch and Once) the production will open next year at Pitlochry Festival Theatre from 24 July until 21 August 2027.
Sam and Tusker have been together for 20 years. But since Tusker’s early-onset dementia diagnosis their lives have changed forever. Now, the two are setting off on a road trip chasing the memories they’ve built, visiting the people they love and dodging the future they can’t outrun.
Macqueen’s profound, intimate story is given new scale by director John Tiffany and movement director Steven Hoggett, the duo behind some of the most visually stunning theatre of the last two decades (Once, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child andBlack Watch).
Supernova is an unmissable, searing examination of what we are willing to do for the people we love.
Supernova’s exciting cast will be led by Tony, Olivier, BAFTA and Emmy award winner and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director Alan Cumming (The High Life – The Musical, Traitors US, X2, Avengers: Doomsday and Cabaret on Broadway) and Emmy and Golden Globe award winning film and stage actor Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Star Wars, Moulin Rouge and Black Hawk Down). Further casting will be announced later in the year.
Actor Ewan McGregor said:
“I am so delighted to be working at Pitlochry Festival Theatre next summer on the beautiful ‘Supernova’ with my old friend Alan. I have been very moved by the work so far on the text by Harry Macqueen who is adapting his own screenplay. We are going to be discovering this story with the amazing team of John Tiffany, Jamie Harrison and Steven Hoggett and it’s going to be quite something to throw myself into this role with such an extraordinary group of visionaries. I can’t wait to get started and to bring this piece to the stage. I look forward to seeing you all there!”
Written and directed by Harry Macqueen and starring Colin Firth as Sam and Stanley Tucci as Tusker, Supernova had its world première in 2020 at both the San Sebastián Film Festival and the London Film Festival. The film was short-listed for two BAFTA Awards including ‘Outstanding British Film’ and as ‘Best Film’ at the European Film Awards in 2021. In 2022 it was voted one of the ‘100 Best British Films of the 21st Century’ by critics.