Words: Robert Burns & Kevin Williamson
Performance: Kevin Williamson
Films: Alastair Cook
Director: John Paul McGroarty
Linked by a sequence of video narratives – specially created for this show by filmmaker Alastair Cook – this is the radical subversive poetry of Robert Burns, the dangerous stuff he couldn’t put his name to during his lifetime.
Without messing about with the texts Kevin Williamson (poet, iconoclast and founder of the legendary Rebel Inc publishing house) will attempt to perform the poetry as he believes Burns may have done if he was around today. Alastair Cook’s short films provide both context and chronological narrative to the performed verse.
From the vicious political satire Address of Beelzebub through little-known underground, republican, anti-war, patriotic and revolutionary classics to the famed anthem of humanity, A Man’s A Man, this is Scotland’s Bard as never heard before.
The show starts at 7pm each evening, beginning on Thursday 4th Aug and running for 9 consecutive nights till the 12th Aug; then a further 5 nights from 24th Aug-Sun 28th Aug.
Book tickets here. (Ticket prices: £8 & £5 concession).
Robert Burns: Not In My Name 