A non-partisan and non-political celebration of Scottish culture will today usher in the referendum day in a dramatic fashion.

From midday to midnight at the Assembly Hall in Edinburgh, Blabbermouth a National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) production - will stage more than 100 texts from Scotland's history and culture, read by a cast of well-known names from theatre, the arts, sport and politics.

These include Liz Lochhead, Annie Lennox, Peter Mullan, Elaine C Smith, Ricky Ross, Janice Galloway and many more.

The texts, performed in four, two-and-a-half hour sessions, run from sports commentaries to children's books, from Border Ballads to Jimmy Reid speeches.

The curator and director of the show, NTS associate director Graham McLaren, said the show should not be mistaken for an independence referendum play.

Instead, he likened it to a Hogmanay party.

He said: "Part of my thinking was that I knew that by this point, all the conversations have been had, we are hearing no new information, and at that point, like in a great drama, like in Hamlet 'readiness is all': there comes a point where it is all done and you have got to make the last little journal yourself.

"It is like when a family gets together on the eve of New Year and you have a bit of a hoolie - your old grandfather doing 'The Old Cock Sparrer' or mum singing Patsy Cline - the only difference is that I have the country's finest talent to do this with."

He added: "The reason it is 12 hours long is that I could easily fill it, but I could have filled 24, 36, 72 hours effortlessly without repeating a single bit of material - it is vast, our culture and our heritage.

"Whatever the decisions people come to tomorrow, our shared understanding and love of Chic Murray and Billy Connolly - that we all share, and no one has sole ownership over that." McLaren said it was a way of showing Scotland's "fragmented narrative".

"It occurred to me that there was a way of showing Scotland's fragmented narrative through the prism of just its written words - so it is polemics, poems, lyrics, and it could show the plurality of voices that we have had, and the vast experiences that we have had," he said. "From the great inventors to the great thinkers, from Adam Smith, Jimmy Reid to Julia Donaldson, JM Barrie and everything in between."