Peter Arnott’s elegiac new play is suspended between past and future. The past is represented by Will (Robbie Scott), a dead child whose ghost haunts the gorgeous Perthshire summer home where his father, George Rennie (John Michie), a headstrong academic, has gathered friends and family for a party. It is the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum of 2014 and change is in the air.
The future is there in the form of Charlie (Matthew Trevannion), George’s former student turned charismatic TV pundit. Taking delight in goading liberals, he is a contrarian who is delighted by the impending apocalypse. Cheerful and cavalier, he predicts an age of environmental collapse that will have no place for the values of fairness and equality he hears around the dinner table.
