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East side story

Dundee Rep�s big new production, Sunshine On Leith, is not about The Proclaimers, but rather based on their honest, passionate songs, telling the story of two soldiers returning from a desert war. Peter Ross joins the cast in rehearsals and discovers an innovative union of theatre and music. Just don�t call it a musical, says Charlie Reid

IT is 10am in Dundee and a dozen people are shaking their buttocks, really rather vigorously, to Bootylicious by Destiny's Child. Most of them are Scottish, and some are hungover, yet they are bouncing around with no obvious discomfort or embarrassment.