Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Two Scots team up with a woman from West Virginia in a play that uses folk music to explore the distress of the Highland clearances and mass emigration‘Nothing I do feels Scottish,” complains Brian (played by Brian Ferguson), a Scotsman living in England who has returned to scatter his granny’s ashes and met up with his childhood friend and lifelong local Iain (Sandy Grierson). Iain’s radical political instincts have turned to a corrosive arouse, and while Brian is afflicted by the guilt of those who leave. The process of recalibrating Scottishness in the light of distant and recent history,including the independence and Brexit referendums, is at the heart of this collaboration between the TEAM and National Theatre of Scotland.
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Source: theguardian.com