Brunton Theatre

In 1979, East Lothian District Council asked Sandy Neilson to form a company to present an eight-week season of drama.

The three plays produced during the first season were Frederick Knott's thriller Wait Until Dark, Alexander Reid's Scots comedy The Lass wi' the Muckle Mou, and Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, with John Bett in the title role.

[4] Productions directed by Nowosielski include Sydney Goodsir Smith's The Wallace (1986),[5] Donald Mackenzie's The Warld Traiveller (1986),[6] Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons (1986),[7] Netta B. Reid's A Shepherd Beguiled (1986),[8][9] Howard Purdie's A Fine Romance (1987),[10] Edward Stiven's Tamlane (1987),[11] the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret (1987),[12] Jay Presson Allen's adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1987),[13][14] Stephen Macdonald's adaptation of The Jungle Book (1987 and 1989 tour),[15][16][17] David Purves's The Knicht o the Riddils (1987),[18][19] John Bett's Sleeping Beauty (1987-88), William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1988),[20] Edward Stiven's The Cauldron (1988),[21] an Edinburgh International Festival production of James Bridie's Holy Isle (1988),[22] Robert Robertson's The Wizard of Oz (1988),[23] Goodrich and Hackett'sThe Diary of Anne Frank (1988),[24][25] The Bug Play (1988),[26] Alexander Reid's The Warld's Wonder (1988), David Swan's Frankie MacStein: The Panto (1988-89),[27] Anton Chekov's The Seagull (1989),[28][29] Edward Stiven's Under the Passing Stars (1989),[30] [31][32] Hector MacMillan's The Rising (1989),[33] Compton Mackenzie's Whisky Galore (1989),[34] C.P.

Taylor's Good (1989),[35][36] Peter Hall and Adrian Mitchell's adaptation of Animal Farm (1989),[37][38] David Swan's Ali MacBaba and the Tomb of Doom (1989),[39] Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1990),[40][41] Donald Campbell's The Fisher Boy and the Honest Lass (1990),[42] George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan,[43] and an Edinburgh International Festival production of Robert S. Silver's The Bruce (1991).

[2] Venue hire is managed by East Lothian Council, while artistic programming is organised by the Brunton Theatre Trust, established in 1994.