Strange Town Young Company: The Dark Up Close

Scottish Storytelling Centre

43-45 High St, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR

£12 + booking fee

Two teenagers digging graves, an island full of conscripts and puffins. The guns are silent on the eve of World War III. These are scenes from a near-future Britain, a country in crisis, with national service reinstated for all young people. The old world is dying, and the new world has been delayed indefinitely. The Dark Up Close is a new play by Jack MacGregor, commissioned for Strange Town Young Company (18-25).

Dark Up Close Strange Town Young Company

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