After dinner Sharon Smith and I drove to the Carriage Works to catch Black Watch performed by the National Theatre of Scotland. It was an excellent piece of theatre; well-acted, cleverly staged, good (but not great) writing. The review in the Sydney Morning Herald earlier in the week described it as “never less than absorbing” which I think is correct. It comes out of that long tradition of Scottish drama that in my life time has included works such as The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil and Jock. It’s not quite in the same class as either of those but it’s very good and, I regret to say, streets ahead of anything I’ve seen here in the last eight years.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Black Watch
After dinner Sharon Smith and I drove to the Carriage Works to catch Black Watch performed by the National Theatre of Scotland. It was an excellent piece of theatre; well-acted, cleverly staged, good (but not great) writing. The review in the Sydney Morning Herald earlier in the week described it as “never less than absorbing” which I think is correct. It comes out of that long tradition of Scottish drama that in my life time has included works such as The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil and Jock. It’s not quite in the same class as either of those but it’s very good and, I regret to say, streets ahead of anything I’ve seen here in the last eight years.
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