The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

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T0773438002 (NATSCOT10/11) Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes including one intervalProducer National Theatre of Scotland. Director Wils Wilson. Design Georgia McGuinness. Musical Director Alisdair Macrae. Director Janice Parker (Colin/Devil). Performer Annie Grace. Performer Alasdair Macrae. Performer Dave McKay (Devil). Performer Madeleine Worrall (Prudencia).
17 May 12 to 20 May 12	Trinity Arts Centre, Bristol :: V1782379083 listing details L01212038976
11 May 12 to 13 May 12	Theatre Royal, Norwich :: V72 listing details L0153721832
10 Apr 12 to 11 Apr 12	Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy :: V629 listing details L01143367541
2 Aug 11 to 27 Aug 11	Fringe, Edinburgh :: V1059 listing details L299361975
21 Jul 11 to 30 Jul 11	General, Glasgow :: V1443918235 listing details L1080058710
14 Feb 11 to 16 Feb 11	The Maltings, Berwick-on-Tweed :: V986 listing details L01048265970
9 Feb 11 to 10 Feb 11	The Tron, Glasgow :: V622 listing details L1353742198

Details

Play :: Prudencia Hart is a collector of folk songs, an academic who has devoted her life to the study of folk material. She comes to the village fair in search of songs for her thesis ‘Paradigms of Emotional Contact in The Performance and Text of Traditional Folk Song in Scotland 1572 - 1798’. After the fair she finds herself at a "lock-in" with the locals where songs are sung and stories told. That’s when she hears of the existence of the lost song, the song beyond song... the original song... the uncollected song. She sets off on a journey into the night to find it. Audiences are invited to share a "lock-in" with the National Theatre of Scotland’s company of actors and participate in an evening of supernatural story-telling, music and theatre inspired by the Border Ballads, Burns and the poems of Robert Service.

Author

David Greig