Mike Gibb’s Dundee plays to be beamed around the world

Works by playwright Mike Gibb, whose Dundee-themed tales have proved sell-outs in Tayside and Fife, have been picked up by the National Theatre of Scotland to be broadcast across the world.

Extracts from Clarinda and Doorways In Drumorty will be among the five-minute pieces transmitted worldwide on June 21.

Clarinda, a musical based on one of the loves of Robert Burns, will also be performed in the Grassic Gibbon Centre at Arbuthnott during the Mearns Festival, featuring Dundee singer Sheena Wellington, on August 14.

Doorways In Drumorty, adapted from short stories by Aberdeenshire writer Lorna Moon, will tour Scotland in the autumn.Find the five-minute play website here.A new production of Five Pound & Twa Bairns, set against a backdrop of the Tay Bridge disaster, will be staged at Dundee Rep in January in aid of the Tay Bridge Memorial Trust.

There will also be a Dundee revival of one of Gibb’s best-loved plays, Mother of All The Peoples, as the cast of the musical are planning a production in the refurbished Gardyne Theatre next spring.