Three stage plays. Three voices from Scotland’s past and present. Three very different encounters with belief.
In Quartz, craftsman Michael, solitary but contented in his seashore existence, is forced to confront the uneasy boundary between religious faith and a deeper, older reverence for the natural world.
Burns on the Solway moves to the summer of 1796, when a failing Robert Burns is sent to the chilly Solway coast to try the fashionable cure of sea bathing. As his health rapidly declines, the poet looks back on ambition, regret, and his abiding love for his wife, Jean Armour.
In The Secret Commonwealth, seventeenth-century Scottish minister Robert Kirk delivers a haunting final testimony. Scholar, folklorist and brave witness to the beliefs of the Gaelic speaking world, Kirk tells of the sìth, the dangerous hidden people, whose presence he records, loves and fears, until legend claims that they carried him away in 1692.
By turns intimate, lyrical and unsettling, these three plays explore the enduring human need to believe: whether in God, in love, or in the unseen powers that may lie just beyond the edge of the known world.
In Quartz, craftsman Michael, solitary but contented in his seashore existence, is forced to confront the uneasy boundary between religious faith and a deeper, older reverence for the natural world.
Burns on the Solway moves to the summer of 1796, when a failing Robert Burns is sent to the chilly Solway coast to try the fashionable cure of sea bathing. As his health rapidly declines, the poet looks back on ambition, regret, and his abiding love for his wife, Jean Armour.
In The Secret Commonwealth, seventeenth-century Scottish minister Robert Kirk delivers a haunting final testimony. Scholar, folklorist and brave witness to the beliefs of the Gaelic speaking world, Kirk tells of the sìth, the dangerous hidden people, whose presence he records, loves and fears, until legend claims that they carried him away in 1692.
By turns intimate, lyrical and unsettling, these three plays explore the enduring human need to believe: whether in God, in love, or in the unseen powers that may lie just beyond the edge of the known world.
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