Lismore Homecoming Opens
This week sees TWTC performing with the Lismore Youth Theatre in ‘Coming Home Again’. Written by Sadie Dixon-Spain, this is a stirring tale of generations of Lismore families moving away and returning home.
As the shockwaves of Culloden and the defeat of the Jacobites on Drumossie Mohr rippled through the highlands and the collapse of the Clan system began on the west coast, with huge numbers of ‘Jacobite’ families being displaced, many, many families struggled to find work and the incomes to live. As conditions became harder and lands more crowded, populations began to change, with families moving to start again.
The play, skilfully woven around the audience, tells of one Lismore family’s changing fortunes, from the days of Culloden through to enforced clearing programs in the 1850’s. The message delivered is one of ultimate hope, especially in 21st century Scotland where current economic conditions show many parallels between modern Scots and Scots descendants and those generations of yesterday.
On Lismore everyone is indeed ‘welcome home’
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