In the last two weeks of April, I was privileged to be part of the team performing In the Wake of Metagama, touring the Western Isles of Scotland, and a final performance at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.
The cast for the show included acclaimed actress Dolina MacLennan, award winning poet and my life long collaborator, Donald S. Murray, and musicians, Liza Mulholland, Christine Hanson, Charlie McKerron, Willie Campbell and Calum Alex MacMillan.
I produced a series of drawings that were projected along with archive photographs, telling the story of the people who left the islands of the Hebrides in 1923, and set out for a new life in Canada and the United States.
It is alway a pleasure for me to work in collaboration with such talented artists. It is stimulating for my own work to share ideas and themes, and see and hear the project develop through rehearsals and artistic dialogue.
Hopefully, we will be able to perform the show again in the near future. A lot more people need to hear this wonderful and touching tale of emigration.
