Performance

Venue	Finborough
	Also: The Finborough
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	2nd September 2014
Opened	4th September 2014
To	27th September 2014
When	Tue-Sat 19:30. Sun Mats 15:00. Sat Mats 15:00 (from second week of the run)
Prices	From £16.00. To £16.00.
Finborough (V199)
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Date of change: 12 Aug 14 - T2135651357
Date of change: 15 Jul 14 - T2135651357

The Flouers O'Edinburgh

Work:: The Flouers O'Edinburgh (S3304)

A sparkling period satire on the aftermath of the 1707 Acts of Union, the Scottish Enlightenment and the battle between the Scots and English tongues. Edinburgh in the mid 18th century. The eccentric Girzie Carmichael is consigned to an Edinburgh tenement after her country estate has been confiscated for the family's support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. As she fights to stop her estate being sold to a Londoner, she attempts to matchmake her feisty young niece, Kate, with humourless prig Charles Gilchrist whose English education has left him with a hilariously warped accent. Only one thing stands in the way of their union - Charles makes it a condition of their marriage that Kate agrees to learn "proper English", but Kate flatly refuses to turn her back on her native Scots... As poets, politicians and soldiers alike attend elocution classes to learn English, the lovers' dispute soon leads to utter chaos...

Author

Robert McLellan

Production:: (T2135651357)

First produced in 1948 starring the great Scottish actor Duncan Macrae, The Flouers o'Edinburgh has been widely produced and often revived throughout Scotland - most recently in 2007 at Pitlochry. This classic Scottish romp now receives its long overdue English premiere. Commissioned by the Finborough Theatre as part of its Scotland Decides/Tha Alba a'taghadh2014 season to coincide with the Scottish Independence Referendum on Thursday 18 September 2014, the English premiere of Robert McLellan's The Flouers o'Edinburgh.

Presented by	Neil McPherson (for the Finborough Theatre)
Director	Jennifer Bakst
Design	Philip Lindley
Lighting	Ciaran Cunningham
Performer	Finlay Bain (Charles Gilchrist)
Performer	Helen Belbin (Mistress Bell Baxter)
Performer	Robert Bradley (Sandy / Bailie)
Performer	Tom Durant-Pritchard (Captain Simkin)
Performer	David Gooderson (General)
Performer	Jenny Lee (Girzie)
Performer	Leigh Lothian (Miss Kate Mair of Drummore)
Performer	Andrew Loudon (Baldernock / Nabob)
Performer	Kevin McMonagle (Sir Charles Gilchrist)
Performer	Lewis Rae (Jock Carmichael)
Performer	Richard Stirling (the Reverend Daniel Dowie)

Listing:: L0389574132

Production details

First produced in 1948 starring the great Scottish actor Duncan Macrae, The Flouers o'Edinburgh has been widely produced and often revived throughout Scotland - most recently in 2007 at Pitlochry. This classic Scottish romp now receives its long overdue English premiere. Commissioned by the Finborough Theatre as part of its Scotland Decides/Tha Alba a'taghadh2014 season to coincide with the Scottish Independence Referendum on Thursday 18 September 2014, the English premiere of Robert McLellan's The Flouers o'Edinburgh.

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