The Skeleton Wummin rests at the bottom of the cold sea, withering away in the passing tides and dreaming of life above the waves, in this vivid and poetically eerie Scots-language fable.
The Skeleton Wummin rests at the bottom of the cold sea, withering away in the passing tides and dreaming of life above the waves, in this vivid and poetically eerie Scots-language fable.
The setting is an island peatbank, far from any habitation. The time is bright early summer. A man and a woman enter this empty landscape to cut peat for winter fuel. Before the sun goes down they will encounter shadows from the distant past and begin to come to terms with the troubling realities of the present.
¿Qué clase de hombre desafiaría a un rey? 'Braveheart' es una historia épica medieval sobre la independencia de Escocia en el siglo XIII, basada en la leyenda de William Wallace, un montañés escocés que arrastra a su clan a luchar contra la tiranía del rey Eduardo I de Inglaterra. Después del brutal asesinato de su joven esposa por los ingleses, Wallace sólo busca venganza. Hambrientos y en inferior número, Wallace lidera a los patriotas escoceses y consigue organizar un ejército de guerreros sedientos de libertad logrando recuperar con ello el espíritu que haría a Escocia libre para siempre.
The play The Storm Watchers was originally written as a short piece to be part of a pageant in the late Sixites in Stromness. The work was later performed in its own right with some additions. A powerful and poetic piece, the drama presents the lives, anxieties, regrets, fears and memories of women as they they deal with the waiting and the aftermath of a storm with all their men at sea. Filmed in lockdown in Orkney this project has involved technology, remote rehearsal, mobile phone cameras and much more besides. In this year of Mackay Brown's 100th birthday, it brings to life one of his early but also most powerful pieces of theatre.
