ART DRAMA KING OF SCOTLAND @ Eden Court OneTouch, Fri 27 & Sat 28 May Another regular visitor to Inverness is JONATHAN WATSON (pic) of “Only An Excuse” fame. And he’s back again in the second production from new company Glasgow Actors, who debuted with Julie Tsang’s play
“Like This...” It’s written and directed by Iain Heggie, the writer of Wholly Healthy Glasgow, American Bagpipes, the Sex Comedies and recently the hugely successful
Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer. His previous directing credits at the Tron are Martin McDonough’s Beauty
Queen Of Leenane and his own adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood. When “King Of Scotland” was first written it picked up a well deserved Fringe First award and it’s been updated to tie in with the Scottish elections. It tells the tale of long term unemployed Tommy McMillan (Watson), who joins a government funded retraining scheme ‘Up The Ladder’. Cited as a shining example of the government’s employment policies and chosen for a media profile, Tommy is taken on by The Department of Upward Mobility. The department gets more than they bargained for when they discover just how far up the ladder Tommy is expecting to go. Featuring trouserless bankers, talking dogs, flying taxis and a razor-sharp parody of the workings of the Scottish politics this looks like being not only hugely entertaining, but also
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