The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh presents the UK Tour of This is Memorial Device, the award-winning, critically acclaimed stage adaptation from Graham Eatough, based mostly on the e-book by David Keenan.
Premiering with resounding success on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022, This is Memorial Device recounts the fictional historical past of legendary Nineteen Eighties Airdrie post-punk band Memorial Device. The darkish, witty novel depicting the lifetime of a unprecedented, chaotic native music scene has amassed an enormous cult following since its launch in 2017, with the stage adaptation enriching its sense of nostalgia in all its rose-tinted glory.
Eatough’s stage adaptation is a gloriously hallucinatory journey again into the hopes and desires of early maturity. The adaptation stars Paul Higgins (Slow Horses, Line of Duty, The Thick of It) and options music by Stephen McRobbie from Glasgow band The Pastels.
Paul Higgins, star of This is Memorial Device, mentioned: “I really am delighted to be working again on a show that meant so much to so many people who saw it. It’s great the brilliant team is getting back together to bring it to a wider audience in Scotland and London. It’s a show that speaks to anyone who hopes there might be more to being alive than there appears to be on the surface.”
This is Memorial Device is the most recent of Eatough’s stage variations to be proven on the Royal Lyceum, having premiered the stage adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1981 novel Lanark, with Suspect Culture collaborators David Greig and Nick Powell as a part of the Edinburgh International Festival in 2015.
Dates and Times
This is Memorial Device
Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Thursday 28 – Saturday 30 March 2024
7.30pm (Saturday Matinee at 2.30pm)
£15.50-£20
www.tron.co.uk
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Wednesday 3 – Saturday 6 April 2024
7.30pm (Saturday Matinee at 2pm)
£14-£20
www.traverse.co.uk
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Thursday 18 – Saturday 20 April 2024
7.30pm (Saturday Matinee at 2.30pm)
£16.50
www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
Riverside Studios, London
Tuesday 23 April – Saturday 11 May 2024
7.45pm (Wednesday and Saturday Matinees at 2.30pm, not 24 April)
£30 (£20 concession)
Tickets on sale Friday 9 February
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
