The Borrowed Room

The Borrowed Room is a new Scottish theatre production.Performed by Sean Connor (Moorcroft, Anna and the Apocalypse, Schemers, Still Game) and Craig Hunter (Ness, A Mother’s Song, Special Delivery, Local Hero), and directed by Sam Pitcher (Twelfth Night, The Polar Express, An Inspector Calls, Macbeth), the play is staged by two actors in real time.Set in a public library meeting room in a remote coastal town, the play follows two men who grew up together as they meet to record a conversation about why some people leave small places and others stay.What begins as shared memory becomes a tense and moving reckoning with masculinity, shame, sexuality, silence and belonging.Although fictional, the play is informed by research and shaped by queer experiences of growing up, leaving, returning and navigating shame in small Scottish communities.

It addresses themes of homophobia, religious shame and conversion practice, while centring voice, memory and resilience.The Borrowed Room is an intimate chamber play about the stories people tell, the ones they avoid, and what it costs to finally speak.