A classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage.
Sunset Song is the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy, a rich evocation of growing up on a farm in Scotland in the early-20th century, of being in love and in lust, of getting by as a young mother on your own and of losing your lover in war.
The distinguishing feature of the books – and of this dramatisation – is the use of the rhythms and vocabulary of Scots to tell the story.
This stage version of Sunset Song by Alastair Cording was first performed at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 1991.
'Succeeds marvellously… puts Scotland's own history onto the stage with vigour, precision and skill… a pure piece of theatre' – Guardian
'Does full justice to Grassic Gibbon… a joy and a wrench to watch its blithe unfolding of tragedy and hope' – Scotland on Sunday
About the author
Born and raised in Glasgow, Alastair Cording researched Scottish theatre history for his Ph D, subsequently lecturing at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. His extensive career as an actor and director led to writing as a result of the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning epic, The Golden City. He has written for a number of theatre companies: a series of children’s plays for Masque; Mrs O’s Saturday Nights (Covent Garden Festival); Fatale (Basingstoke Haymarket); and The Walsingham Organ, Margaret Catchpole and Margaret Down Under (Eastern Angles). Adapted works include Wild Harbour and Gay Hunter for BBC TV; David Copperfield for Eastern Angles; and for TAG, Lanark and the Scots Quair trilogy.
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