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Sunset Song

Sunset Song

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

ADAPTATION It was some time in the early-60s when His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, last produced a play of its own, barring the annual pantomime. To return to the fray with a ten-strong company and a mainstage tour after so long was ambitious but…

Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song (1932)

Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song (1932)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

I read Sunset Song first when I was 16 at Inverness High School. I picked it up grudgingly because it looked like a girls’ book, like we were being made to read a soppy classic; it had a line-drawing of a windswept girl on the front which had put me off…

Otter Pie

Otter Pie

(2 stars)13 Nov 2008

PARODY ‘Biggest load of crap I’ve seen in my life …’ muttered one punter, padding past me halfway through the show. He wasn’t the only early departures from the Brunton Theatre, yet I couldn’t help feeling that a harsh judgement had been made. While…

Sunset Song

Sunset Song

18 Sep 2008

Voted Scotland’s favourite novel after the publication of The List’s 100 Best Scottish Books of all Time in 2005, Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song is a work that soars above its set-text status. In the first in-house production by Aberdeen’s His…

Sunset Song

Sunset Song

4 Sep 2008

Director Kenny Ireland is looking to instil some pride in the nation's literary heritage by bringing Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic tale of community, national identity and sexual awakening back to the stage. Set in an early 20th century farming…

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