ChildMinder.

Description of Play

Joseph Croan, 57, a famous child psychiatrist, has risen from childhood in Muirhouse, Edinburgh, to professorship at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. He’s married to Cindy, 39, a Native American academic. Visiting Edinburgh, Joseph can’t get out of his hi-tech flat in the old Royal Infirmary, as Cindy, back in New York, enters premature labour with their first child. As Joseph tries to escape, Sam, a 13 year-old Muirhouse boy he’d assessed 25 years before, in the very same room, appears.

The ensuing events bring about Joseph’s downfall, in a terrifying cascade of self destruction.

Production

ChildMinder will be staged in its world premiere 8-10th June 2023 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, followed by a tour to Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock and The Byre Theatre, Saint Andrews.

Creative Team