The little-known story of Lady Grange is a shocking one: a highborn 18th-century Scotswoman whose unfaithful husband had her abducted, she was left marooned on a Hebridean island.
Sue Glover uses her life story as inspiration for The Straw Chair, which features the character, Lady Rachel Grange (Siobhan Redmond), trapped on St Kilda, an archipelago on the farthest edges of the Outer Hebrides. The play revolves around her interactions with a pair of newlyweds: Christian minister Aneas (Finlay Bain) and his young wife Isabel (Rori Hawthorn), who have been sent to the islands in the summer of 1735 on a missionary drive to bring its inhabitants into the fold.
