Monday 16 November 2009

Review - Grassic Gibbon

Festival Theatre
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Review by Thom Dibdin

SUNSET Song, and indeed the whole trilogy of novels which Lewis Grassic Gibbon called A Scots Quair flavour this new, semi-staged production about the novelist who many claim to be Scotland's greatest.

It's a fair enough flavouring by the show's author, Jack Webster, given that Grassic Gibbon was only born as a pseudonym to distinguish James Leslie Mitchell's work about his Scottish home from his other, increasingly successful English novels.

Not to mention, for this production, the appearance of Vivien Heilbron as the narrator...Link to full review in the Edinburgh Evening News...

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