WINNER
Drama Desk Award 2017
Nominated for 4 LA Critics' Circle Awards
Herald Angel Award
Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland
Brighton Festival Award for Artistic Excellence
***** The Times
***** The Guardian
***** The Herald
"You shouldn't miss this show for the world...rambunctiously life-affirming and and touchingly beautiful" The Herald
"I left it in a state of happy intoxication" New York Times
"More vibrantly alive than any piece of theatre I've seen in Scotland for years" The Scotsman****
"It deserves to tour for eternity" The Guardian
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart took the Border Ballads of Scottish folklore and musical tradition and told a modern-day ballad in an anarchic pub setting. Tender, beautiful, chilling and raucous, it goes from hell to heaven and back again in a single whisky-fuelled night.
The audience, seated around tables, drink in hand, were an intrinsic part of the action. This is a ceilidh, a night of song and story, which takes on a mesmeric life of its own as the story moves from light to dark, until the audience are immersed in a world which can shift seamlessly between the supernatural and the everyday - a ballad of borders, indeed.
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart has toured nationally and internationally 2010-2018 from Blair Atholl to Rio, from Coatbridge to Melbourne, Australia, from Edinburgh to Santa Monica CA, and played for a hugely successful New York run for 6 months at the McKittrick Hotel in 2017.
Created by Wils Wilson and David Greig
Director - Wils WIlson
Writer - David Greig
Designer - Georgia McGuinness
Composer - Alasdair Macrae
Movement - Janice Parker
Cast, past and present:
Ewan Black, Muireann Bird. Charlene Boyd, Gwen Chatfield, Andy Clark, George Drennan, Annie Grace, Melody Grove, Paul Hannah, Jessica Hardwick, Alasdair Macrae, Natali McCleary, Paul McCole, Davy McKay, Charlie West, Owen Whitelaw, Madeleine Worrall, Gavin Jon Wright
Photographer: Drew Farrell
Photographer: Drew Farrell