Murray Watts enjoys Fringe benefits with three plays
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THREE plays by local writer Murray Watts are being staged this month at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Two plays are currently on show and another is due to be featured as part of the Fringe later in the month.
Mr Darwin’s Tree, which was first premiered at Westminster Abbey in 2009, opened at the festival last week and runs until August 21. The play charts Charles Darwin’s extraordinary life from the Beagle voyage to the world-shattering publication of the Origin of the Species.
The play has been written and directed by Fringe First-winning Watts and is his latest in a long line of collaborations with actor Andrew Harrison.
Happiness is another of Watts plays which is on at the festival. Like Mr Darwin’s Tree it opened last Wednesday (August 3) and will run until August 29.
It tells the tale of Laurie and Shelley who are celebrating their wedding anniversary in a crumbling Scottish tower house where Laurie is creating an artists’ retreat. But Laurie makes an arrangement which has deeply disturbing consequences.
The play is getting its world premiere at the festival, as is First Light, which opens on Tuesday, August 23, and runs until Monday, August 29.
It relates the story of an early morning encounter between a teacher and a pupil at a boarding school, which scandalises the authorities.
All three plays can be seen at the Green Room at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
