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Edwin Morgan's Dreams & Other Nightmares

'Do you ever wonder if a person could lead two utterly different lives without either self being aware of the other?’ EDWIN MORGAN Read more …

Edwin Morgan’s last room in a nursing home in the West End of Glasgow.  Everything’s reduced to the barest essentials, just a bed, a wheelchair and a desk.  On a dark ordinary Friday afternoon in winter, middle-aged James, the poet’s biographer, friend and helper, there to do routine admin with the frail eighty seven year old, hears this urgent question from a deeply disturbed Morgan, who then recounts a series of vivid dreams, nightmares in fact, which have been disturbing him.

Images, poems, remembered lovers, regrets, rough trade, propositions accepted or avoided, truths, desires and lives surround the bed.  James, the listener, is disturbed too, trapped in his task like a reluctant interpreter/psychiatrist/amateur Freudian.


The critical consensus

A production that is sometimes laugh out loud funny yet also touching and heart-warming.

***(*)(*)Rachel Clark, The Public Reviews, 26/07/2014

Where and when?

Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Thursday July 24, 2014, until Saturday August 2, 2014. More info: www.tron.co.uk

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