Get your tickets or miss the Rebellion!

Yes, this is Rebellion week!

Mr Producer contacted me last night to tell me that the Saturday performance was now SOLD OUT.

However, there are still tickets left for this Thursday and a few for Friday.

You can get them here while they are still available.

Performance starts at 7:30 pm prompt.

Apart from Glasgow and the West of Scotland, people folk have purchased tickets from places like Aberdeen, Dundee, Islay and County Kildare!

The cast for this three-night run is a mixture of folk who played the same parts in 2016 and some new additions.

That, in sense, is ideal for all concerned.

Within the group are experienced veterans and young undergraduates currently studying at drama school who plan on having a professional career on the stage.

This tweet was from one of that latter group last night.

Yesterday was the final rehearsal before going into the theatre itself.

It was the first time that the whole cast had seen the entire play.

That is because it is essentially two stories in one:

The revolutionary period in Ireland a century ago and a family drama in contemporary Scotland.

Mr Director told me that he was standing and applauding some of the scenes yesterday.

Of course, the person in charge usually tries to have a professional distance during a rehearsal in order to look for flaws.

However, a play can draw you in.

Which is, of course, exactly what this Republican playwright set out to do when he wrote Rebellion four years ago on this Irish hillside.

In many was the Rising itself was a writer’s insurrection.

A piece of revolutionary street theatre to show the Irish people that living under British rule was not the natural order of things.

This generation can deliver the encore in the Six Counties.

I wrote this about the play a couple of days ago to sketch in the background.

Three sleeps…

Abú!