As they uneasily eye the audience, the cardboard signs around their necks indicate their poverty before a well-dressed man takes centre-stage like some vain-glorious actor-manager.
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Edinburgh International Festival: Caledonia, King’s Theatre
The opening of Alistair Beaton’s dramatic re-imagining of one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets, when an attempt to transform the country into a global colonial power in Panama ended in disaster, opens with actors in 17th-century rags edging shiftily onstage.
