Three leading Scottish actors, Jonathan Watson, Paul Riley and Maureen Beattie, known to audiences for their popular stage, screen and comedy performances, will appear in the National Theatre of Scotland??s new comedy, Yer Granny next year.
Three leading Scottish actors, Jonathan Watson, Paul Riley and Maureen Beattie, known to audiences for their popular stage, screen and comedy performances, will appear in the National Theatre of Scotland??s new comedy, Yer Granny next year.
Yer Granny is part of the new programme of work from the NTS, and is an adaptation of La Nona, an Argentinian play by Robert Cossa.
The new version has been written in English by Douglas Maxwell and will be directed by Graham McLaren.
The play will tour Scotland, and Belfast, from May 19 to July 4 next year.
Jonathan Watson is currently appearing as Bob Servant??s sidekick Frank in BBC Scotland??s comedy series Bob Servant.
Paul Riley is best known for his role as Winston Ingram in the Scottish sitcom Still Game, the live stage show version of which recently finished a 21 night run at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. Other TV work includes Chewin?? the Fat and Dear Green Place.
Maureen Beattie has performed with theatre companies all over the UK, including Stellar Quines, the Royal Court, the National Theatre of Great Britain, Shakespeare??s Globe, Theatre Babel and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The play, which is about a grandmother who eats her family out of house and home, has been reset in Scotland in 1977, the year of the Jubilee, in a Glasgow fish and chip shop.
La Nona premiered in Buenos Aires in 1977.
In the UK, the play was first produced for the stage by Attic Theatre Company at Wimbledon Studios, London in 1995.
A BBC TV version of La Nona was broadcast in 1991 as part of the Performance series, starring Les Dawson as the granny, in a cast that also featured Liz Smith, Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall.
McLaren said: "When I first read Douglas Maxwell's version of Argentina's greatest comedy, I laughed so violently that my ten year old daughter rose from her bed, convinced I was being attacked.
"If you imagine the satire of Dario Fo with the humour of Rab C Nesbitt, you will get a feel for Yer Granny.??
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