Renowned Scottish actor David Hayman is set to return to the Helensburgh stage this weekend as he teams up with playwright Chris Dolan for a third time.

Having previously worked together on Dolan’s plays The Pitiless Storm and The Cause of Thunder, the second of which was performed in Helensburgh in 2017, the duo are teaming up for a Scottish tour of Dolan’s latest work Time’s Plague.

Produced by Fair Pley and directed by Hayman’s son, David Hayman junior, the play is Hayman’s third outing as Bob Cunninghame and, like both previous instalments, views life and recent political and global events through the eyes of one ‘everyman’.

This time, Bob’s in hospital. A long dark night of the soul, an understaffed ward, a top-floor single room. The Death Star. He’s broken – like the world around him. And tomorrow morning? A painful, risky procedure; Bob,convinced he won’t survive.

This doesn’t stop him from ranting about injustice and the state of the world, laughing at everything, including himself. There’s no way Bob’s going gently into that good night; he’ll burn and rave at close of day, raging against the dying of the light.

The play comes to the Victoria Halls on Saturday, September 17. Tickets (£16) are available online in advance at bit.ly/timesplaguehelensburgh or at the door subject to availability.