A police interview room. A table. Jock has been huckled for a crime he says he didn’t commit: imperialism. He has been spotted at the scene, but is it what it looks like? Or is Jock, despite what he claims, a racist himself? It Wisnae Me is a political satire posing the question: of Scotland’s complicity in colonisation. Read more …
Somewhere in the background of this piece, there is an interesting drama about the need for Scotland to grow up and take full responsibility for its past, and about what that would mean.
Worthy and well intentioned if somewhat clumsy and over ambitious.
It can’t address everything, but it’s ambitious to try, and something would be lost by trying to restrict its breadth. There’s meat in the play as well as the pie today.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday October 1, 2018, until Saturday October 6, 2018. More info: http://playpiepint.com
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday October 9, 2018, until Saturday October 13, 2018. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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