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EDINBURGH
FESTIVAL FRINGE 2001
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THE
WALLACE
by Sydney
Goodsir Smith
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Directed
by Charles Nowosielski
Music by Richard
Cherns
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Live
Music!
Atmospheric setting!
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Venue
121:
DUDDINGSTON KIRK MANSE GARDENS*
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August
9th-12th,16th-19th, 23rd-26th
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WALLACE is a historical play dramatising
the life of one of Scotland's greatest heroes, William
Wallace, whose revolt against England in the 14th
Century led to his capture and execution, but, also
through the continuing and successful rebellion of his
successor, Robert the Bruce, to eventual Scottish Independence. |
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play was first broadcast by the BBC in 1959, performed
at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960 and was revived in
1985 by the ill-fated Scottish Theatre Company.
After
a degree of re-structuring by the Brunton Theatre
Company, the play was the first production of a new
regime directed by Theatre Alba's Charles
Nowosielski.
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customary Alba style, this production had live instrumental
music: original melodies and Scottish airs specially
composed and adapted by Composer Richard
Cherns and performed by two groups of musicians.
The instruments featured included Irish pipes, Scottish
pipes, Ulean pipes, fiddles, viola, harmonium, recorders
and whistles. |
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Sydney
Goodsir Smith
Sydney Goodsir Smith
(1915-1974) was one of the most important Scottish poets
of the 20th century, a founder of the Scottish Renaissance
that revived not only Scottish writing, as a separate
phenomenon, but the use of the Scots language as a vehicle
for literature. He was also a fervent nationalist for
whom Scotland's long history was always a part of the
present. |
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This
production of "The Wallace" was its premier
in the open air. The
venue in historic and atmospheric Duddingston Kirk
Gardens followed three previous successful productions
in this venue: THE SHEPHERD
BEGUILED by Netta Blair Reid, TAMLANEby
Edwin Stiven and CHARLES EDWARD
STUART by Donald Mackenzie and Charles Nowosielski.
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