NEWS: New Scots language theatre firm brings historic thriller to Clydesdale’s village halls this July

Accompanying her well-known brother on a bracing tour of Scotland in August 1803, Dorothy Wordsworth seeks shelter in a humble lodging home and discovers one thing no outsider was ever meant to see.

Secret Wrapped In Lead is the chilling debut and world premiere manufacturing of Braw Clan, the brand new Scots language theatre firm based mostly in Clydesdale. Impressed by Dorothy’s journal and that includes fascinating historic characters, this new play in Scots and English shall be carried out in Leadhills, Biggar, Thankerton, Crawford, Roberton, Crawfordjohn and Symington from the nineteenth – twenty ninth of July.

Written and produced by award-winning playwright Martin Travers (No matter Occurred To The Jaggy Nettles) and directed by actor and novelist Pauline Lynch (Trainspotting, Armadillos,), Secret Wrapped In Lead stars Helen McAlpine (Rillington Place) as Dorothy Wordsworth, Fletcher Mathers (Medea) as her fierce landlady Mrs Otto and Fletcher’s real-life daughter Morven Blackadder, making her skilled debut as Primrose Otto.

Tickets can be found now at brawclan.com, and are priced on a Pay What You Resolve foundation. Viewers members can e book prematurely, with out making a fee. After they’ve seen the present, they determine what they assume it’s value and pay by money or card. In the event that they haven’t loved the present in any respect, they don’t should pay something.

Author Martin Travers stated: “I’ve identified about Dorothy Wordsworth’s journey to Scotland for years. Dwelling in Lanark, I knew that she, her brother William and Samuel Taylor Coleridge had visited the world. I all the time discovered that basically thrilling. Throughout lockdown I researched her legendary journal, Recollections Of A Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803. I fell in love along with her voice. It sings off the web page and down by way of the years. And I cherished her grumpy landlady Mrs Otto. As I learn, I used to be wrapped in a sense that’s arduous to clarify. It was like trying over a hill right into a misplaced world. A darkish world, with its personal guidelines and secrets and techniques and the place the hardy individuals and animals are being slowly poisoned by lead. I needed to push the unsettling otherworldliness of Leadhills to its limits, so I’m trying ahead to audiences’ response. My hope is that they’re left feeling unnerved and stunned.”

Director Pauline Lynch stated: “This funding from Inventive Scotland, SSE Renewables and Clyde Wind Farm permits Braw Clan to supply accessible, reasonably priced and nationally vital Scots language theatre in Clydesdale for the primary time. We will flip an exquisite native story, Dorothy and William Wordsworth’s go to to Leadhills in 1803, into reside performances, workshops and conversations about our historical past and language. Secret Wrapped In Lead brings communities collectively for a night of darkish and humorous storytelling, but it surely additionally supplies 13 rural theatre practitioners with the prospect to work near dwelling – a uncommon alternative with enormous skilled {and professional} advantages.”

DATES:

Wednesday 19 July | 7.30pm | Leadhills Village Corridor, Ramsay Street, ML12 6YA

Friday 21 July | 7.30pm | Arts At Loaningdale, Carwood Street, ML12 6LX

Saturday 22 July | 7.30pm | Arts At Loaningdale, Carwood Street, ML12 6LX

Tuesday 25 July | 7.30pm | Thankerton Village Corridor, 51 Station Street, ML12 6NZ

Wednesday 26 July | 7.30pm | Crawford Village Corridor, 100 Carlisle Street, ML12 6TW

Thursday 27 July | 7.30pm | Roberton Village Corridor, Mill Street, ML12 6RS

Friday 28 July | 7.30pm | Crawfordjohn Village Corridor, Manse Street, ML12 6SR

Saturday 29 July | 7.30pm | Symington Village Corridor, 55 Predominant Road, ML12 6LL