Amy Liptrot’s memoir is having a moment. Nora Fingscheidt’s screen version starring Saoirse Ronan is about to open in the Edinburgh international film festival and, here, running for the full length of the Edinburgh international festival, is Stef Smith’s adaptation for the theatre.
The book, though, is an odd choice for the stage. On the one hand, it is easy to see the appeal to Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum, the co-producer: The Outrun is a popular title that offers a vivid modern-day portrait of Orcadian life. But on the other, it is hard to imagine how an introspective piece of writing that makes no claim to the dramatic could work theatrically.
