Set amidst the grinding poverty of Glasgow's infamous tenements in the 1930s, Men Should Weep has long been a favourite with audiences in Scotland.

Following the misfortunes and trials and tribulations of the Morrison family, Ena Lamont Stewart's landmark play is a searing, unflinching depiction of the hand-to-mouth poverty that many working class people lived in at the time.

At the centre of the story and the Morrison family is Maggie, the hard working, care-worn matriarch. Supported and hindered in equal measure by a network of neighbours and family - from whom it is impossible to keep any secrets and with whom there is a constant battle to maintain appearances - she does her very best in the worst of circumstances, always putting herself last.

By turns laugh-out-loud funny, at times tragic, but always thought-provoking, Men Should Weep was remarkably ahead of its time when written in 1947. This major new production by the National Theatre of Scotland will introduce this much-loved work to a new generation of theatregoers and remind those who have seen it before why it has become universally hailed as a contemporary Scottish classic.