As part of our continuing commitment to take the Festival into local communities across Scotland and with additional support from Bank of Scotland, each year our Wee Night Out programme presents a Festival production in community venues and schools.

This year we are delighted to be touring Scota-land, written and created by Andy Cannon, with performances in towns and villages from Crail in the East Neuk of Fife to Portree in the Isle of Skye on the West and culminating with performances in Lothian schools during our 2012 Festival.

One of the main aims of Wee Night Out is to bring a Festival performance into the heart of a community, bringing families together and strengthening parental and community involvement, while raising valued funds for the participating schools.

 

     Andy Cannon and Mull Theatre

 

For more than one hundred years the beautiful “Crown of Destiny” has held pride of place in the fictional Isle of Mikle’s ‘Scota-land’ museum. Shrouded in controversy from the day the museum opened - is it really the actual crown worn by ancient Egyptian princess Scota, on the day of her wedding to Prince Gathelus of Greece, the legendary patriarch of the Scottish nation? Or is it just a fake, a medieval fancy cherished by the romantic Victorians?

 

With very plausible evidence to support both sides of the “Destiny” debate, the controversy surrounding the crown’s authenticity has remained no more than an academic exercise for as long as anyone can remember. A stalemate not helped by the fact that no-one has been allowed to remove the crown from its plinth and examine it, since June 1745, more than 250 years ago to be precise!

Until now that is…

 

If you would like to express an interest in your school participating in future Wee Night Out programmes, please email weenightout@imaginate.org.uk

 

Scota-land is commissioned by the London 2012 Festival

Supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund