Playwright Iain Heggie is a master of the short form, as this revival of a piece originally seen as part of Oran Mor�s A Play, A Pie and A Pint season shows off well.
Until Saturday, 7.30pm, Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge St, Edinburgh, £5-£16, 0131 228 1404
Playwright Iain Heggie is a master of the short form, as this revival of a piece originally seen as part of Oran Mor's A Play, A Pie and A Pint season shows off well. Set in Glasgow's Merchant City in 1780, one Enoch Dalmellington contemplates a bleak future as he attempts to marry off his prissy-lipped daughter Euphemia and scrape together the price of his pew at the Tron kirk. With Benny Young flying solo in a part first played by John Bett, central to proceedings is a series of in-joke predictions about a future Glasgow with a thriving west end, women attending university and Virginia Street over- run with sodomites. How such geographically specific references translate from the west coast to east should be interesting.
