The National Theatre of Scotland has announced new international tours of its hit productions of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig and Black Watch by Gregory Burke.
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart was created after writer David Greig, director Wils Wilson and composer Alasdair Macrae were sent to stay for the weekend at an old pub in Kelso in the Scottish Borders to research the Border Ballads. Locked into the pub late at night with knee-deep snow lying on the ground outside, a man told them of another group of people who came to look for songs a few years earlier, one of whom, a woman, was never seen again. This was the inspiration for the play.
Prudentia Hart toured Scotland in February 2011 and has since been to the Latitude Festival Òran Mór Glasgow and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It will be performed in pubs and bars around America from June 2012 to February 2013 calling at Brasil Internacional Festival in Brazil, Festival of New Ideas in New Haven, North Carolina, Chicago, Williamstown Massachusetts, Columbus Ohio, Indiana, Washington DC, Ann Arbor Michigan, Austin Texas, Davis California and Vancouver. Tour dates in Australasia have yet to be announced.
John Tiffany's famous production of Black Watch by Gregory Burke about members of the Scottish Black Watch Regiment on active service in Iraq is also to return to North America, touring to Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco from September 2012 to June 2013.