WANT to know where playwrights find their ideas? Think you could write you own play?

This week the Tron Theatre is staging Talkfest, a mini-festival celebrating the work of Scotland’s playwrights.

And it’s a chance to see new playwriting, take part in workshops and script surgeries.

On Saturday there’s a chance to see a new play by acclaimed writer Iain Heggie, making its first outing in the form of a rehearsed reading.

Playwright’s Studio Scotland’s Creative Director Fiona Sturgeon Shea explained the idea behind the event.

“We don’t commission or produce plays but we help playwrights to develop them.

“Andy Arnold of the Tron has offered us this week to put on these readings and we can give people a chance to see how plays are constructed and then watch a full length play such as Iain’s new play.

“It should be a great event.”

Iain Heggie, writer of The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer and Wholly Healthy Glasgow, has come up with a new comedy drama Deck McGraw’s Last Words.

The play will feature acting luminaries John Bett, Jimmy Chisholm and Katherine Howden.

“I started on this play two years ago and it was supposed to be a one-act, two hander,” said the playwright.

“The set-up features an older brother (John Bett) who has died, and has found a way to invite his younger brother (Jimmy Chisholm) to the funeral.

“But the brother doesn’t arrive until after the funeral takes place, and he meets up with his niece. (Katherine Howden).

“The brother then gets involved in family obligations for the first time, and he’s sucked in in a way he would never have imagined.”

The two brothers, we learn, are complete opposites. The older brother is a vociferous capitalist, the younger a hippy-dippy free spirit who’s spent much of his adult life as a practising vagrant.

The dead brother doesn’t come back as a ghost, but he does find a way to communicate with his younger brother.

How Iain Heggie makes this work will be revealed on the night, but it is funny, and clever.

“This is the first non-commissioned play to be revealed since I first had shows produced,” says Iain.

“It’s a great chance to see how the idea is received; you can learn a great deal from listening to an audience’s reaction.

“And the whole Talkfest idea is fantastic. It really does bring the world of playwriting together.”

Other rehearsed readings this week include Gala, by Ellie Stewart, Close Encounters – The Future Will Take Care of Itself, by Grace Knight and Every Five Minutes, by Linda McLean.

Workshops on Saturday afternoon include offerings by playwrights such as Johnny McKnight, Anthony Neilson, and Linda Radley.

Details can be found at playwrightsstudio.co.uk/events/talkfest/at-the-tron.

• Deck McGraw’s Last Words, the Tron Theatre, Saturday at 7.30pm.