Tam O'Shanter

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Robert Burns’s narrative poem mischievously reimagined by Gary McNair.

Gary McNair’s warm-hearted (but slightly irreverent) reimagining of Robert Burns’s epic poem.

Robert Burns’s narrative poem mischievously reimagined for a contemporary audience by Gary McNair. 

With music by Malin Lewis and Michael John McCarthy. 


Tam has something of a thirst for alcohol. 

His wife’s warned him of the trouble he’s likely to get in if he doesn’t change his ways. 

Does Tam listen? No. 

But he’s about to face the night of his life, when her prophesy becomes reality…




Performed by Gary McNair, with music and original composition by Michael John McCarthy and Malin Lewis. 

Studio and Live Recordings by Fraser Jackson, Kris McConnachie and Sean Mullervy

Sound Design by Michael John McCarthy 

Directed by Kirsty Williams

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