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Sins of the Father
by Tom Murray
Directed by John Carnegie
Scenery and Costumes designed by Gregory Smith

The winds batter a remote cottage in the Borders. Emma enters this “animals’ lair” for her long planned encounter with its owner, Robert. Years before, the worlds of Robert’s father and Emma’s mother collided in a way that would affect their children’s lives forever. Today, that situation is going to be resolved.

Tense, passionate, edge-of-the-seat theatre, Tom Murray’s involving drama was joint winner of the inaugural Rowan Tree Playwrighting Competition. Having previously presented a rapturously received workshop version of the script in its Play and a Platter season at the Eastgate Theatre, the company is proud to bring it to full fruition in this production.

Tom Murray is a Borders based writer whose stories and poems have been widely published in the UK. His plays have been performed and read at a variety of venues including the Traverse in Edinburgh and the Arches in Glasgow. Following on from his recent four year spell as Writer in Residence to Clackmannanshire Council, he is currently Creative Writing Fellow to Tyne and Esk Writers.

John Carnegie directed the workshop version of Sins of the Father for Rowan Tree, for whom he has also directed Fredric Mohr’s Barry and his own Hermiston and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.