"It is to Scotland that we look for our idea of civilisation" said the French philosopher Voltaire. What was he thinking?! David Hume's Kilt is a comic fantasia about the Scottish Enlightenment, cultural identity and the battle between science and sentiment. Starring the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith, the novelist Sir Walter Scott and the Highlands' very own Cruella de Vil, the Countess of Sutherland, the play depicts the most spectacular literary hoax of the 1700s, and the notorious jaunt north of King George IV for what might be called the first ever Edinburgh festival. It brings to tartan-clad life the tug-of-war between love and self-interest, kilt and trousers, and between intellectual, commercial Scotland and the romantic, shortbread-tin alternative. Written in the Scots language, David Hume's Kilt was originally developed by John Tiffany at the National Theatre of Scotland, and then received a staged reading at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, directed by Dominic Hill. Performance length: 2 hours 15 minutes.T692394452English PremiereDirector Rae Mcken. | |
| 13 Jun 10 | Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L2006535350 |
