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LEITH LIVES
at
DUNCAN PLACE RESOURCE CENTRE June 11th 2.00pm,
June 16th 7.30pm
and June 17th 2.00pm.
Tickets from Leith Festival Box Office 0131 555 0501 £6/£5
Citadel returns to Leith Festival
with LEITH LIVES, a triple bill of short plays, all inspired by
different periods from the colourful history of Leith.
The first piece, new play currently being developed, is Golden
Leith or The
Queen must Die by
Alan Mountford. The play’s set against the arrival of Mary Queen
of Scots at the port of Leith .
The playwright
takes Tom, the rough English soldier from last year’s 4-star Siege
of Leith Show, and
brings him back to Leith in quest of the treasure that obsesses
him. But Tom finds something very different. The show is
sponsored by Groves-Raine Architects, who are restoring the
historic Lamb’s House, where
Mary briefly stayed when she first landed
The
other two Leith-based plays are Gold
Rush by
Laure Paterson and Jimmy
and the War by
Cecilia Rose, both plays being produced for the first time for a
general audience.
Gold Rush takes
a 19th century
Leith family across the ocean to seek their fortune in the
California Gold Rush. Jimmy
and the War gives
audiences a humorous glimpse into life in Leith
on the Home Front during the War. The plays are directed
by Liz Hare and
Mark Kydd.
Caroline
MacKellar and Ian Watt
rehearsing Gold Rush.
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