BRAVEHEART @ MacBRAVEHEART ... Wallace's Women
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| A new two-act, comedy-drama, 'Wallace's Women' was written
specially for the 1997 Wallace 700 celebrations by Margaret
McSeveney and Elizabeth Roberts. The play brings to the fore for the
first time the unsung contribution of the women in Scottish history - in
this case Wallace's mother, wet-nurse, girlfriend and wife, a healer who
saved his life and a Frenchwoman. The play, written in Scots, centres
on the celebration of the Celtic pagan feast of Beltaine on May 1st in
two momentous years: 1296 and 1297. There are twelve characters in
the play for six female actors. We saw the play performed at the Smith Museum & Art Gallery in Stirling on Sunday 2nd November, 1997. Linda's review follows: I loved Wallace's Women. These women were gutsy and funny and
strong and lovable. I wanted to be them all. I wanted to sit with them
and gossip about William Wallace. I wanted to get drunk with them
and dance at the feast of Beltaine. This was real history told by the
women who knew Wallace, from birth through marriage and
fatherhood to death. Watching and listening to these women made
me understand what Wallace must have meant to the ordinary people
of Scotland. |
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