Kyle Bissett Productions
Sacha Kyle (Director/Dramaturg) and Alan Bissett (Writer) have been working as artistic collaborators for over ten years. They have presented eleven theatre productions together - including the CATS-shortlisted Turbo Folk - demonstrating a return of loyal audiences and a constant influx of a new, curious one. Their work has toured throughout the UK and internationally and has received regular critical praise from the British national press.
They are excited by theatrical risk-taking and adventure, and seek to explore content which is both theatrically intelligent and accessible, whilst challenging form, structure and style in ways which are unusual or unexpected.
They are excited by theatrical risk-taking and adventure, and seek to explore content which is both theatrically intelligent and accessible, whilst challenging form, structure and style in ways which are unusual or unexpected.
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*****Shortlisted for CAT Awards 2018 |
More Moira Monologues
***** 5 Stars The Scotsman Joyce McMillan
***** 5 stars 'Welcome back, Moira. We Missed you' Broadway Baby
***** 5 stars 'Makes you laugh so loud your face hurts' The National
***** 5 Stars 'Belly-bursting, raucous laughter at this pitch-perfect, bawdy, earthy, honest and genre-breaking show.The performance envelops you, cuddles you, and also rips your guts with earthy laughs, but still manages to shock and unsettle.' Edinburgh Festivals
**** 'Great hilarity, simple truths and some profound moments too: it's no wonder Moira has such a loyal following' The List
**** 'Shriek out-loud hilarious' Last Years Girl
****"Moira is beautiful...the strongest show this reviewer has seen at the Edinburgh Fringe & Festival this year." Edinburgh Spotlight
Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Written by Alan Bissett
Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle
***** 5 Stars The Scotsman Joyce McMillan
***** 5 stars 'Welcome back, Moira. We Missed you' Broadway Baby
***** 5 stars 'Makes you laugh so loud your face hurts' The National
***** 5 Stars 'Belly-bursting, raucous laughter at this pitch-perfect, bawdy, earthy, honest and genre-breaking show.The performance envelops you, cuddles you, and also rips your guts with earthy laughs, but still manages to shock and unsettle.' Edinburgh Festivals
**** 'Great hilarity, simple truths and some profound moments too: it's no wonder Moira has such a loyal following' The List
**** 'Shriek out-loud hilarious' Last Years Girl
****"Moira is beautiful...the strongest show this reviewer has seen at the Edinburgh Fringe & Festival this year." Edinburgh Spotlight
Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Written by Alan Bissett
Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle
One thinks of it all as a dream:
Syd Barrett
****‘It’s a perfectly-judged vehicle for the sad narrative of Syd Barrett’s glittering genius, his breakdown, and his rapid estrangement from the band he co-created with his friend Roger Waters. And Sacha Kyle’s production features a series of performances so impressive that this 55-minute show is a brief but complete immersion in Sixties culture, with its sense of infinite possibility. Joyce McMillan,
The Scotsman
‘****A wonderfully touching portrait of a beautiful, hugely talented boy, who seemed ill-equipped to deal with the routine realities of life.’ Mary Brennan, The Herald
Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle
Written by Alan Bissett
Performed by Euan Cuthberston, Andrew John Tait, Euan Petrie & David James Kirkwood
Sound Design & Composition by Andy Cowan
Produced by Scottish Mental Health Association Andrew Eaton Lewis & Susannah Armitage Oran Mor
October 2016 Oran Mor: Traverse Theatre: The Lemon Tree
The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant
Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle
Written by Alan Bissett
Performed by Elaine C Smith, Michele Gallagher, Martin McCormick and Paul Corrigan
Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle
Written by Alan Bissett
Performed by Elaine C Smith, Michele Gallagher, Martin McCormick and Paul Corrigan
WHAT
THE F**KIRK? A COMEDY ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BAIRN Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle Written and performed by Alan Bissett with live music by Adam Stafford 
Ban This Filth!
Shortlisted for Amnesty freedom of expression award Edinburgh Fringe Festival & UK Tour Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle Written and performed by Alan Bissett 
The Moira Monologues
Glasgow Comedy Festival 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016/2010 Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle Written and performed by Alan Bissett 
Turbo Folk
Oran Mor Shortlisted for CAT award Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle Written by Alan Bissett Performed by Ryan Fletcher, Stevie McNicoll and Simon Donaldson The Library
Arches Award for Stage Directors
Supported by The National Theatre of Scotland The Arches & Traverse Theatre Concept, direction and design by Sacha Kyle Text by Alan Bissett Music by Daniel Sarstedt |
Souness
Will we ever see his likes again?' Archie Macpherson Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle Written by Alan Bissett Tron Theatre/Playwright Studio Scotland 
The Red Hourglass Edinburgh Fringe Festival & UK Tour Director/Dramaturg Sacha Kyle Written and performed by Alan Bissett 
The Confidant
Gilberto Pinto National Theatre of Scotland Director Sacha Kyle Adapted by Alan Bissett Oran Mor/Traverse Theatre Performed by Jon Morrison and Lori McLean |
LOST PROPERTY ***** 5 Stars
Underneath The Arches
Sacha Kyle's Lost Property doesn't just inhabit The Arches' dark, slightly mouldering basement warren, it haunts it with images of neglect and dereliction that all speak of lost hopes, lost opportunities, lost souls. Mary Brennan, The Herald.
‘A combination of installation and performance that begins with comedy, and then ranges on through an increasingly powerful alternation of melancholy and absurdity, as a team of performers lead us through all the physical and cultural debris of the lost 20th century, strewn through a dazzling array of hidden Arches spaces.’ Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
Concept, Direction and Design by Sacha Kyle
Forgotten misplaced objects fill the lost property.
Random things that clutter the space belong now in this place, dank and smelling of dust and mud.
Tagged, they are given an identity, a date, an ink red stamp of authority, a place within the rest.
People left behind. Forgotten, misplaced.
They are waiting to be remembered, while trying also not to forget.
We have all, at one time or another, been lost.
Lost property explores our need to belong.
*Audience members are invited on a journey....Limited Capacity.
Forgotten misplaced objects fill the lost property.
Random things that clutter the space belong now in this place, dank and smelling of dust and mud.
Tagged, they are given an identity, a date, an ink red stamp of authority, a place within the rest.
People left behind. Forgotten, misplaced.
They are waiting to be remembered, while trying also not to forget.
We have all, at one time or another, been lost.
Lost property explores our need to belong.
*Audience members are invited on a journey....Limited Capacity.
New Writing: Theatre Productions
'A Play, A Pie and A Pint' @ Oran Mor
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'Terrific sound and music by Andrew Cowan, and a beautiful, moving central performance from Hannah Donaldson as the narrator.... this remains a brave and arresting version of a great story, that reminds us how easily the mental distress of unfree women can still be medicalised and dismissed, more than a century on.' Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman Adapted by Sandy Nelson Performed by Hannah Donaldson, Katie Armstrong and Sandy Nelson Music composition & sound design Andy Cowan Choreography by Katie Armstrong |
Facegone
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The Kiss
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I, Tommy.
written by Ian Pattison (Rab C. Nesbitt)
@ Edinburgh Fringe, The Kings Theatre, The Pavilion Theatre Glasgow & Scottish Tour
Performed by Des McLean, Colin McCredie, Michele Gallagher, Martin McCormick and Rebecca Elise, James McAnerney, Cat Grozier,Rosie Kane
written by Ian Pattison (Rab C. Nesbitt)
@ Edinburgh Fringe, The Kings Theatre, The Pavilion Theatre Glasgow & Scottish Tour
Performed by Des McLean, Colin McCredie, Michele Gallagher, Martin McCormick and Rebecca Elise, James McAnerney, Cat Grozier,Rosie Kane