Martyr Theatre seeks to tell ambitious stories in unconventional spaces. We treat the limitations of grassroots theatre as points of inspiration, using creative problem solving as a part of our process. We breathe life into underrepresented corners of history, exploring not what was - but what could have been.

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Martyr has completed its 2025 programming

We are taking the holiday season to rest and prepare for an exciting 2026 programme...Keep an eye out for news coming soon

Martyr's Projects

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50 minutesEdinburgh Horror Fest 2025...Glenn & Flenn Will Return in 2026!

Glenn & Flenn

Directed and Written By Frederik Bang

With live music and foley performed by Frederik Bang and an original cast of puppets, Glenn and Flenn ought to be a magical children's programme. Tragically, it has fallen into obscurity, and the puppets suffer from disuse, the puppeteers suffer from years trapped in the studio. What remains is either horrifying or hilarious. Thats for you to decide.

50 minutesEdinburgh Horror Fest 2025

Sacred Hearts

Directed By Moira Hamilton and Rebecca Russell

Written By Rebecca Russell

With Original Composition By Frederik Bang

In a confessional, Judith begs a priest for help. She's been possessed by an angel, marked to do God's will. And if he won't help her - she may have to make a terrible sacrifice.Staged in a confessional booth, audiences are unable to see both actors clearly for the duration of the story... but is seeing the same as believing?

50 minutesEdinburgh - PBH Free Fringe 2025Script courtesy of Barking Fish Theatre Project

W3 : Filthy Filthy Witches

Directed By Moira Hamilton and Rebecca Russell

Written By Jamie Hamilton

With Original Composition By Frederik Bang

Three wyrd sisters, one grifter, and a dead whale. Mixing puppetry and actors, W3 tells the tale of three trash-picking witches and a washed-up inventor whose baby is killing their mother. This semi-shakeperian play received ★★★★ from DC Theatre Arts in 2014, and was revived (and re-invigorated) for a UK Debut at PBH's Free Fringe in 2025.

60 minutesEdinburgh - PBH Free Fringe 2025
Edinburgh Horror Festival 2024

Dracula's Guest

Directed By Moira Hamilton and Rebecca Russell

Written By Rebecca Russell

With Original Composition By Oli Jan

A seductive and unsettling adaptation drawing on Bram Stoker's gothic classic. Jonathan Harker has been sent to do business with the mysterious Count Dracula. But the Count is very different from what he expected, and slowly, Jonathan realises that he is a prisoner. Can he escape Castle Dracula? Or will he give in to the temptation of the vampire?Dracula's Guest saw a first (sold out) season at Edinburgh Horror Festival in 2024 and returned for one week at PBH's Free Fringe in 2025, and is beginning to aquire something of a cult status.

"A Shocking and Bloody Climax"★★★★★

"More Than Worth an Hour of Your Fringe Time"★★★★☆

"Climactic and Bloody Performance"

50 minutesTheatre 118 - 2025

Ed & I

Directed By Moira Hamilton and Rebecca Russell

Written By Erin Baillie

With Original Composition By Frederik Bang

As Edward II ascends to the throne, he seeks to return his lover Piers Gaveston from exile. As Edward searches for Gaveston, Gaveston searches to understand his strange and surreal surroundings. Trapped in a spire, Gaveston encounters strange medieval beasts with whom he struggles to communicate.

"an epic, scintillating work with physical flair and genuine theatricality"★★★★★

Scratch (K)night

Hosted by Moira Hamilton and Rebecca Russell

A new-works night with a medieval theme which featured excerpts of five new scripts.

The Crew

Writer, Director, Producer

Performer, Composer, Social Media Manager

Producer, Designer, Director, Performer

Performer, Outreach

Lighting, Sound, Technician

Rebecca Russell

Writer, Director, Producer

Rebecca is a writer and director with an interest in the strange and macabre. Since graduating Glasgow University's Theatre Studies Mlitt programme, she has directed a wide range of material, from Shakespeare to experimental new writing. Her work engages classic literature and history from a queer/feminist angle, and is often gory, sexy, spooky, or some combination of the three.

Frederik Bang

Actor, Composer, Social Media Manager

Over the last several years he has explored delusion and paranoia in all its varying forms from Macbeth to Dracula's Jonathan Harker. Frederik's work includes voice acting, improvisation and composition as well as their main body of stage productions. He also enjoys being covered in blood and letting his hair do the talking.

Frederik's Bandcamp

Moira Hamilton

Designer, Director, Performer

Moira is a US-Born Glasgow based theatremaker and graphic artist. She has been on stage since age 5 and backstage since age 7, and considers this as good of credentials as any.
You may have seen her work as a director, a performer, a propmaker, or a stage manager. You will not have seen her excel spreadsheets, but you have probably appreciated their outcomes.
Moira also has experience in stage management, light operation, puppetry, set building, and all manner of studio arts. She wont stop until she's done every job that theatre has to offer at least once.

Moira's Gallery:

Some of Moira's creatures:

Magnus Kelly

Actor, Outreach

Magnus is a Glasgow born actor and theatremaker who graduated from the MGA academy of performing arts with a BA (hons) in Musical Theatre in 2020. He is an alumnus of the Tron Young Company (2022-2024) who always seems to be cast as the asshole.

When he isn't in the rehearsal room, Magnus might very well be in your DMs. Professionally speaking.

Lexi Crockford

Lighting, Sound, Technician

Part actor & writer, comedian, and occasional director, and full time technician Lexi has always been around the stage, but really hit the ground running doing lights and sound from the age of 13. Lexi is currently a freelance technician in Glasgow as well as the house techie! You can sometimes find her performing solo as a stand up comic-- if you're lucky!

Glenn & Flenn

Magnus Kelly - Glenn and Flenn
Lexi Crockford - Mr. Ploughman and Unnamed Puppeteer
Frederik Bang - Live music and Foley, Writer, Director
Moira Hamilton - Technician, Puppet and propmaker
Dunce the Puppet - TechnicianSpecial Thanks to Ben David Sharp for providing videography

Rehearsal photos

Director's Note

Flenn began as a bitter has-been of a puppet, think older comedian who just complains about the younger comics who are badly hiding their own feelings of irrelevance. The show grew from there until I had moldy sandwiches and a horrible amalgam of rotting puppets begging for attention. The idea of puppet body horror was both amusing and unnerving to me. It meant the gore would stand out while still giving the audiences the horror they came for, minus the mess I've dealt with first hand on other shows. The show is an experimentation in several realms for myself. I'm taking on the directing/writing role for the first time while moving my musical sensibilities from pre-recorded soundtracks to live performance.

Naomi Delvin - Judith
Magnus Kelly - ThomasRebecca Russell - Writer, Director
Moira Hamilton - Creative Director
Russ Russell - Costumer
Lexi Crockford - Technician
Frederik Bang - Composer

Rehearsal Photos

Writer's Note

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:91. This is a play about faith. Not religious faith, despite appearances, but about the faith we place (or fail to place) in other people. It's easier, sometimes, to put your trust in something that's bigger than yourself - in institutions, in ideologies, in a charismatic leader - anything but the imperfect people around you. There's a seductive certainty about it, because it makes things simple. In theory, at least.2. This play is a tragedy. And like all tragedies, the outcome is both inevitable and chosen. There is only one possible outcome, and we watch the characters choose that outcome every step of the way. We see how they could choose otherwise, when they cannot.
"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."
- Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

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W3: Filthy Filthy Witches

Audience Reviews (Slideshow)

Live Performance Photos

Captured by Tres Cielos Media

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Rehearsal Photos

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W3 was written and initially produced by Jamie Hamilton. His theatre company (The Barking Fish Project) can be found here.

Scratch Knight 2025

Dracula's Guest 2025

This play was born out of my eternal fascination with vampires and my love-hate relationship with The Canonical Vampire novel. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a perfect portrait of the whole range of Victorian fears about sexuality, gender, and otherness, and anyone adapting it for a modern audience has to grapple with those anxieties.

Many adaptations try to address Dracula’s treatment of women, but there's also a great deal of anxiety in the text around masculinity and manhood. Surprisingly few adaptations give much attention to Jonathan Harker, but I've always found him an interesting character, particularly because he performs a narrative role that isn’t conventionally masculine. He’s displaced from familiarity, trapped in a place where he is both powerless and bound by social conventions, at the mercy of a strange man, whom he finds both fascinating and terrifying, subjected to sexual threat - he’s a classic gothic heroine. But he’s also supposed to be an everyman, a representation of the “normal” English man. There’s a tension between those two roles, and it’s tempting to imagine Jonathan as an unreliable narrator - in order to preserve an image of himself as a perfect English gentleman, what might he have omitted?

I’ve now been working on some variation of Dracula for about three years now, and I'm very happy to be bringing this version of Dracula's Guest to the fringe with Martyr. The process has been so much fun, and I truly couldn't have worked with a better team of people. While it's time for me to say goodbye to Dracula for a while, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up rising from the grave again someday.
-Rebecca Russell

Dracula's Guest 2024

Ed & I 2025

Live Show Film Stills

Film courtesy of Calum White

Rehearsal photos

Props Highlights

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Featuring Martyr

The members of Martyr Theatre Company have, and continue to work with many other talented and influential companies in Scotland.Here, we want to showcase what we get up to when we work outside of our company, and share where you can find our friends and colleagues.