Darkly Funny Side of the Moon

A revisiting of Lorna Moon’s pithy Dark Star debuts at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre  

We’re beyond proud to be partnering with Pitlochry Festival Theatre for a re-visiting of Lorna Moon’s ground-breaking novel Dark Star (1929).  

An innovative piece of theatre, Jack, Lorna and the Dark Star, is set to premiere at the ‘Winter Words’ festival in February 2026. The one-person play picks up on the novel’s key themes and offers a darkly funny, powerful, exploration of freedom of choice, sexual identity, and questions how we find the courage to be ourselves. 

Jack, like Moon herself, is raised in rural Aberdeen and questions their sexuality.  

Everything changes when Jack discovers Moon’s once-banned Dark Star. Reading the novel sparks an unexpected ‘dialogue’ across time, a dialogue that inspires Jack to break free.  

With this reworking, expect humour, heart, and a playful spirit of rebellion. 

Produced in collaboration with Pitlochry Festival Theatre—Scotland’s leading rural arts organisation under the artistic direction of Alan Cumming—this is storytelling with soul. 

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