Guilty

Granite Noir 2025

18th - 22nd February 2025

The Anatomy Rooms
Shoe Lane, Aberdeen, AB10 1AL

Aberdeen Performing Arts and Ten Feet Tall Theatre presents

Guilty by Rona Munro

A vanished woman. A suspect. A police inspector. An interview. Two women face each other in a small windowless room for some routine questioning…

In this offbeat comedy-thriller, acclaimed North East writer Rona Munro (Casualty, The James Plays, Doctor Who) weaves a tangled web of intrigue and suspense, where the domestic collides with the extraordinary. A dark yet funny exploration of innocence… “Guilty” serves up laughs, thrills and enough twists to keep you on your toes… all in under an hour.

This entertaining production marks a return of Aberdeen based Ten Feet Tall to Granite Noir following the success of previous productions: See you in Court, Witch Hunt and Scared to Death.

Commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts for Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival 2025

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

+ Lucy Beth: Lucy is an award-nominated emerging performer and theatre-maker from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. In 2023, she graduated with Distinction from the University of Glasgow's MLitt Theatre and Performance Practices course after being awarded a PGT Excellence Scholarship by the university.
As a performer, Lucy was nominated for the Artist of the Year Award at the 2024 Scottish Emerging Theatre Awards.
Notably, Lucy has appeared in TMM Recruitment’s Christmas Advert, “Scary Tale of New Work” (directed by Pink Sphynx Media) and Talegate Theatre’s production of “Dick Whittington.”
Part of Lucy's practice concerns dialect preservation. She speaks Doric and seeks to create and perform works in Doric as a means of continuing to render the dialect present. In 2024, she won the Best Newcomer Award at The Doric Film Festival. Her solo theatre show, “Ma Name Is Isabelle,” was commissioned by Eden Court Theatre and Tobar an Dualchais / Kist O Riches for the Scrieve Project as part of the 2024 Under Canvas Festival and has since been performed in Edinburgh, Dundee & Aberdeen.
+ Francesca Hess: Francesca is an actor and writer from Nottingham, based in Glasgow. After training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she was selected as the Citizens Theatre Graduate Actor for 2022.
Recent acting credits include:The Bookies (KB Productions), FLEG, Alföld (A Play, A Pie & A Pint/Citizens Theatre), Storytelling (A Play, A Pie & a Pint/Lemon Tree Aberdeen), Red Riding Hood, A Comedy of Errors (Citizens Theatre), Four to the Floor (Channel4/Lemonade Money)
Francesca is an alumnus of the Royal Court Writers Group and is part of the Fifth Word Playwright cohort 2025. Her first play, that face should form another, is being developed with support from Nottingham Playhouse and was longlisted for the David MacLennan Award, Bold Playwrights Award & Theatre503 International Playwrighting Award 2025.