As a travelling family make their way up to Blairgowrie for the berry picking, they stop for the night and bewitch us with centuries old stories from the world of travellers’ tales.
Based on the work of the late Duncan Williamson, the master story-teller and Scottish traveller, Tall Tales for Small People is a beautiful show for all ages.
Tall Tales will enchant a new generation with these traditional yarns which have flourished within the Scottish travelling community and which have been passed lovingly from father to son, from mother to daughter.
This collection of wonderful stories has been woven into a hugely entertaining tapestry of laughter and adventure. Giggles by the bucket load, a touch of the macabre, magical transformations and fantastic live music bring to life stories such as The Hunchback and the Swan and The Girl and the Boots.
Above all, it’s the ready versatility of the performers as they morph into crabbit gossips, canny birds of the forest or scary body-snatchers that makes you long for more tall tales.
Great tales, told with invention.
Throw in Macrae’s live score for a variety of instruments and the all-hands-on-deck contributions of the rest of the six-strong ensemble and you have a set of tall tales not just for small people, but big ones as well.
It offers, in its very form, a powerful image of just how much a small group of people can achieve and create, when they give their imaginations free rein.
On Tour, from Friday September 30, 2011, until Saturday November 26, 2011.