Poster of original production

Willie Rough is a play by Scottish writer and director Bill Bryden, which is often regarded as a landmark of Scottish drama.[1][2]

Originally a stage play produced by the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company in Edinburgh in 1972,[3] a TV version was shown in 1976 as Play for Today, with a cast including Fulton Mackay and Roddy McMillan.[4][5]

It is set in a Greenock shipyard around the outbreak of the First World War, and put forward a revolutionary socialist view of events of the time.[6][7] John Maclean, a Socialist leader who opposed the war, is mentioned several times but never appears in person.

References

  1. ↑ Stevenson, Stevenson Randall (7 August 2019). Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474472869 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Royle, Trevor (6 January 2012). The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature. Random House. ISBN 9781780574196 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Scottish Theatre Programmes - National Library of Scotland". digital.nls.uk.
  4. ↑ Shepherd, Jack; Dewhurst, Keith (1 June 2014). Impossible Plays: Adventures with the Cottesloe Company. A&C Black. ISBN 9781408147276 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Willie Rough (1976)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019.
  6. ↑ Cream, T. V. "Willie Rough – TV Cream".
  7. ↑ "Willie Rough · British Universities Film & Video Council". bufvc.ac.uk.
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