Spoiling, Traverse Theatre Company

Scotland’s Foreign Minister will soon deliver a keynote speech outlining the newly-independent nation’s relationship with the former UK. But there’s a problem. She’s refusing to speak the words she’s been given. There’s something else she wants to say…

At odds with her Party, and pursued by a harassed Party worker, she has a decision to make; toe the line or take back control.  This timely piece moves effortlessly from fierce political satire to surreal, soaring poetry. Never has an iron fist within a velvet glove delivered such a punch.