Standing Stanes
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Siege Perilous presents a play by Robert Ballantine, set in the 1980s and telling the story of an idealistic young man whose efforts to improve his community are blocked at every turn by excessive, unfeeling bureaucracy.
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The latest emerging Scotland-based playwright to be showcased, Robert Ballantine's Standing Stanes, is a wry political comedy. It centres on a young man who, fired with entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to improve his community, endures a tireless journey as he comes face-to-face with the bureaucracy of larger-than-life, verging on cartoonesque officials. Set in the 1980s when it was originally penned, it has a charming retro appeal.
There are many similarities between the UK political and economic landscape at that time and today; recession, austerity, unemployment, a Tory (led) Government. The play also talks of the 'Cold War' between the East and West and though that no longer exists, there is a potential battle looming in the UK between North and South as the country debates the issue of Scottish independence.
Standing Stanes had a rehearsed reading at the time it was first written, at Dundee Rep featuring Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson, but has never been staged.
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