Finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play
The long history of the Clan MacDonald begins in 1779 as Calum Ruadh leaves Scotland to begin a new life on Cape Breton Island. Haunted by the stories and songs of the ancestry, two brothers seek to reconcile their past with their present. From the writer of Glenn and Inexpressible Island (Scirocco Drama) comes this adaptation from the award-winning novel by Alistair MacLeod.
News & Reviews
“Lovely, heartbreaking, funny and shocking.” —The Ottawa Sun
“… sprang to life in the way that all theatre should.” —The Ottawa Citizen
“No Great Mischief captures hearts.” —Toronto Sun
About the Author
David Young is the author of the plays No Great Mischief (an adaptation of the novel by Alistair MacLeod,) Inexpressible Island (which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama,) Glenn, and Clout, and the co-writer (with Paul Ledoux) of Love is Strange and Fire. Young’s plays have been widely produced in Canada, the United States, and Europe. David has also published two novels and written extensively for film and television.
