OUTLANDISH! Heathfield-based playwright premieres new play with music at The Actors, Brighton

It’s the summer of 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie has fled to the Outer Hebrides, closely pursued by 2,000 redcoats. There, a local girl, Flora Macdonald, agrees to guide him to safety. And so a myth is born.

But what if her motives were less pure than the myth suggests? What if the rescue was more mishap than heroism?

OUTLANDISH! is a camp, comic, musical subversion of a tale we think we know, set against a reign of terror in which no one declares which side they’re on, everyone is out for themselves, and in which the sentimental power of a spurious Jacobite song can change the course of history.

*FEATURING LIVE MUSIC, BOTH TRADITIONAL AND ORIGINAL!*

Charlie is my darlin’

Will ye no come back again

The Skye Boat Song

&c

"Why was BPC absent? Because he was busy drinking, eating and shagging his way round France and Italy – like his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, before him. Look, these were not men to be trusted. It should’ve been totally obvious."

OUTLANDISH! is at The Actors, 4 Prince's St, Kemp Town, Brighton, BN2 1RD at 7.30pm on 11, 12 and 13 October

Tickets: https://ticketlab.app/events?search=outlandish%21