This adaptation of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film, about a Texan oil-man who wants to buy up a Scottish village, keeps the features that made that original such a classic. There is an evocation of the glorious Highland sky that leads the company boss to drop his multi-million-pound plans and the score by Mark Knopfler gains a bevy of new songs.
But it does not bring the same magic as that film and feels dated in its environmental message, and rather inert in its drama, although Daniel Evans directs with characteristic imagination. There is also an especially nifty set by Frankie Bradshaw, which turns the stage into a giant metallic ocean wave.
