Honorary Fellow: Association For Scottish Literary Studies
“If we investigate only by physical and chemical means, we can only get physical and chemical answers.”
The Rising
Commissioned and directed by Stephen MacDonald. Dundee Repertory Theatre. 1973.
This was the stage version of the previous radio play, again featuring The McCalmans folk group.
"The best blend of folksong and drama that I have come across." The Scotsman.
Stephen and I then formed the Glasgow 800 Theatre Company to present the play at the Citizens' Theatre, 1975, featuring many of the original cast and again with The McCalmans.
"a memorable tribute to the men who never got into the history books" Morning Star
"historical reconstruction given the added power of verse and song" Glasgow Herald
"a fine play full of dignity and outrage that tells its lesson better than a shelf of history books" The Scotsman
Over the next fifteen years or so the play had a number of successful revivals, including a notable one by the Scottish Youth Theatre, directed by John Haswell, with an all female cast.
Published in A Decade's Drama. Woodhouse Books. 1980.
[ISBN 0 906657 06 7]
Also in Scots Plays of the Seventies. Scottish Cultural Press. 2001.
[ISBN: 1 84017 028 X]