Theatre Alba sparkles
beguiles and touches your heart.

by Robert McLellan

Artistic Director: Charles Nowosielski
Musical Director: Richard Cherns

Brunton Theatre
Musselburgh
Saturday 30 August 2014
7.30pm

The Queen of Scots …
in my End is my Beginning

This latest Alba offering is a lyrical rendering of the quite tragic story of one of Scotland’s great female visionaries- Mary, Queen of Scots.

This captivating play is set in different locations in and around Edinburgh…Holyrood Castle , Craigmillar Castle, Dunbar Castle and in the High Street of Edinburgh.

The heart-rending story is given a typically ‘Albaesque’ treatment, bringing it right up to date in style since it’s first production at the Glasgow Citizen’s Theatre in 1951.

Written in a light poetic Scots by the remarkable McLellan (Flooers o’ Edinburgh, Jamie the Saxt, The Carlin Moth), the influences of France, England, and of course Scotland, are prevalent – the machinations of politics then are seen to be perhaps not so very different than of today!

Robert McLellan – “No playwright did more to create touchstone plays on Scottish subjects for Scottish actors on a Scottish stage … No writer then or since has represented aspirations for Scottish self-expression in the theatre arts with greater popular effect” – Colin Donati

Brunton Theatre
Musselburgh
Saturday 30 August
7.30pm

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