"On my first day at NTS in 2004, I bought a Glasgow Herald. On the front page was an article saying Tony Blair was going to get rid of Scotland's individual regiments and turn them into the Royal Regiment of Scotland. In the gap between page one and page three was a story that had to be told."
"The Black Watch all come from Fife and Tayside and were the people I grew up with. My voice was the voice of the soldiers. I didn't know any of them personally, but as soon as I went in the room, one of them said, Oh, you know my sister."
"It was built on a Scottish tradition. We thought about Bill Bryden's play The Ship and John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil. We cry, we laugh, there's music and singing and the magic of surprise."
The National Theatre of Scotland's production, Black Watch, debuted in 2006 and quickly became a significant success. It was inspired by tragic events involving soldiers from the Black Watch regiment in Iraq. The play captures the emotional struggles of young soldiers and their families, using innovative staging to transport audiences from a pub in Fife to a war zone. Key figures like Vicky Featherstone and Gregory Burke emphasized the importance of storytelling and the connection to Scottish theatrical traditions in creating this impactful work.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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