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Based on the book by David Keenan, Adapted and Directed by Graham Eatough.
ABOUT
Following a sold-out, Fringe-First winning run at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival, “This Is Memorial Device”, based on David Keenan’s cult novel, returns.
The fictional history of 1980s Airdrie’s mysterious, post-punk legends it is a gloriously hallucinatory journey, back to the hopes and dreams of early adulthood, performed by Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Slow Horses) with music by Stephen McRobbie (The Pastels) and Gavin Thomson. Adapted and Directed by Graham Eatough.
Image: Mihaela Bodlovic
Originally produced by The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh with the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Developed with the support of the Stephen W Dunn Theatre Fund.
REVIEWS
★★★★★ "a blissed out eulogy for all the small town lost boy heroes" - The Herald
★★★★“Memories of fictional indie heroes burn brightly” - The Guardian
"The best theatre I saw (in Edinburgh) was This Is Memorial Device. I loved David Keenan’s novel so much I was worried about seeing it, but it was brilliantly adapted in a way that that felt totally special, in that moment, in that place, on that night." - Stewart Lee
CAST AND CREATIVES
Cast - Paul Higgins
Director - Graham Eatough
Set and Costume Design - Anna Orton
Music - Stephen Pastel and Gav Thomson
Lighting Design - Nigel Edwards
Sound Design - Gav Thomson
Video Design - Martin Clark
Movement Director - Kally Lloyd-Jones
Graphics Props - Yedsy
Producers - Neil Murray and Callum Smith