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Honorary Fellow: Association For Scottish Literary Studies

“If we investigate only by physical and chemical means, we can only get physical and chemical answers.”

Sir Alister Hardy, FRS

Oh What A Lovely Peace!

Commissioned by the newly-formed Scottish Youth Theatre. Premiere 1977. Director Denise Coffey.

The script-outline was designed to involve contributions from the maximum number of Scottish dramatists, co-ordinated by H.MacMillan. It took as it's model Joan Littlewood's production of "Oh What A Lovely War", using song, dance and drama to highlight the follies of subsequent European politics, particularly as they were likely to affect contemporary youth.

Prior to and during rehearsals the young cast was encouraged to question the script freely, and the Director and myself did our best, acknowledging bias, to give honest answers.

"acted with as much spirit as the 7:84 Theatre Company but .. even more blatantly propagandist" The Scotsman

"Ought the new Youth Theatre to be tackling themes like these? Yes it ought, no other theatre has a better right to do so" Glasgow Herald