Stewart Laing’s Them! has a cast of just four – if you discount the band, the dancers and the ants

The audience. The host. The guest. The band. The ants. That’s the National Theatre of Scotland’s one-line introduction to director Stewart Laing’s latest show Them!, which opens at the Tramway in Glasgow later this month; and although it seems enigmatic, in fact it reveals a great deal about the remarkable theatrical world of one of Scotland’s most inventive and acclaimed directors and designers, currently an NTS associate artist, and boss of his own project-based company, Untitled Projects.