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Free Thinking: Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing

Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing

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Tartan at V&A Dundee, RL Stevenson's Kidnapped on stage, and the Highland Book Prize 2022.

The writer/director of a touring version of Stevenson's Kidnapped, the author of a history of tartan, and poet and judge of the Highland Book Prize Peter Mackay join Anne McElvoy.

Stevenson's swashbuckling Jacobite set novel has been translated into a play which is touring Scotland. Tartan and its history are on show at V&A Dundee, including a piece of tartan found in a peat bog in Glen Affric around forty years ago newly dated to circa 1500-1600 AD, making it the oldest known surviving specimen of true tartan in Scotland. The Highland Book prize has announced its shortlist. Anne McElvoy is joined by New Generation Thinker and poet Peter Mackay, fashion historian Jonathan Faiers and theatre director Isobel McArthur. 

Kidnapped: a swash-buckling rom-com adventure is directed by Isobel McArthur and Gareth Nicholls for the National Theatre of Scotland and the tour visits venues in Greenock, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Perth, Newcastle and Brighton

Presented by the Highland Society of London, and facilitated by Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre, the Highland Book prize shortlist is:
Companion Piece by Ali Smith, Confessions of a Highland Art Dealer by Tony Davidson,  Crann-Fìge/ Fig Tree: Short Stories by Duncan Gillies,  WAH! Things I Never Told My Mother by Cynthia Rogerson. The winner will be announced on the 6th of June https://www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/ 

Tartan at V&A Dundee opened on April 1st and includes over 300 objects. The book Tartan: Revised and Updated by Jonathan Faiers is out now, published by Bloomsbury.

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