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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

Smackdown in Scotland: the full-tilt drama grappling with national identity

Wrestling, with ideas … Lesley Hart (front), during rehearsals for Thrown.
Wrestling, with ideas … Lesley Hart (front), during rehearsals for Thrown. Photograph: Tiu Makkonen

On the far side of the field, a girls’ football match is under way. Over to the left there is highland dancing. Immediately in front is a ramp set up by the cycle stunt team, just along from the bouncy castle. Somewhere in between, actor Lesley Hart is queueing for the haggis-hurling competition.

“Are you going to perform?” asks the compere in a silver-spangled jacket when he finds out Hart is here with the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS).

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