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| == The Vanishing Bridegroom by Judith Weir ==
| | #REDIRECT [[The Vanishing Bridegroom]] |
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| Director: Lee Blakeley
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| Conductor: Timothy Dean
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| Designer: Adrian Linford
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| Lighting Designer: Mary Fisher
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| Production Manager: Davy O’Neill
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| Assistant Conductor: Michael Bawtree
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| Saturday 25, Monday 27, Wednesday 29 June
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| and Friday 1 July 2005 7.15pm
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| NEW ATHENAEUM THEATRE
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| There will be no interval.
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| == Synopsis ==
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| The Inheritance and The Disappearance are taken from Popular Tales of the West Highlands Vol 2, (1860) ed. J F Campbell of Islay. The Stranger is taken from Carmina Gadelica Vol 2, (1900) ed. Alexander Carmichael. The majority of text is taken directly from these sources, from poetry collected in further volumes of Carmina Gadelica, and from other Celtic sources. All the literary sources for this piece – stories and poetry – were originally collected orally, in Gaelic.
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| I The Inheritance
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| Told by Donald Macintyre, a cottar, Benbecula, 6 September 1859
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| Characters
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| Bride Emma Smith
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| Lover Luis Garcia
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| Bridegroom Patrice Lamure
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| Doctor James Arthur
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| Narrator Douglas Nairne
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| Dying Man Abram Edewards
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| Youngest Son Christopher Elliott
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| Middle Son Austin Gunn
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| Eldest Son Anders Östberg
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| Bride’s Father Aaron McAuley
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| Robbers Nuno Miguel de Aurujo Pereira, Ross McInroy
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| Good Robber Dominic Peckham
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| A man dies, but his legacy is missing: one of his three sons must have stolen it, but which one? The Doctor investigates by telling the sons the following parable:
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| A woman, forbidden to marry her lover, is unwillingly married off to a richer man. When the richer man learns of her forbidden lover, he sends her back to him. But when she arrives, the forbidden lover, on learning of the marriage, sends her back to her rich husband. On her way back through a thick wood, she is robbed, but in the end one of the robbers has an attack of conscience and takes her home safely to her rich husband.
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| “Now”, asks the Doctor of the three sons, “out of all the people in this parable, whose behaviour do you most admire?” “The rich husband” says the eldest; “The forbidden lover” says the next; “The robbers who got away with all the money” says the youngest – and sure enough, it is he who has stolen the legacy.
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