Tam O'Shanter
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Gerry Mulgrew's adaptation of the Burns classic offers a highly visual, musical and comical evening of theatre.
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The Burns story of Tam's drunken, glorious night out, the scene of supernatural debauchery inside Kirk Alloway, and the terrifying chase through the woods. Set in Burns' world; it's rhythm of work, life, courtship, entertainment, ritual, and death. With over 20 songs, live music, a strong visual style and a large cast of the best Scottish actors, dancers and musicians, this is a show of outrageous hilarity, death-defying rhyming, anachronisms and short skirts. Government warning: this show may be nuts and contain laughter in excessive doses. 'Full of punk swagger' (Guardian). . Ages 12+.
Communicado in co-production with Horsecross Arts and Assembly.
Text supplied by third party.
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Tam O’Shanter
22 Aug 2012
Earthy, energetic riff on Burns’ masterpiece
‘When chapman billies leave the street / And drouthy neibours, neibours meet’. It’s the best-kent pair of opening lines in Scots poetry, but if you were hoping for a straight rendition of Burns’ masterpiece, Communicado theatre company are more than…
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