Willie Rough

Willie Rough is a play by Scottish writer and director Bill Bryden, which is often regarded as a landmark of Scottish drama.[1][2]

Poster of original production

Originally a stage play produced by the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company in Edinburgh in 1972,[3] a TV version was shown in 1976 as Play for Today, with a cast including Fulton Mackay and Roddy McMillan.[4][5]

It is set in a Greenock shipyard around the outbreak of the First World War, and put forward a revolutionary socialist view of events of the time.[6][7] John Maclean, a Socialist leader who opposed the war, is mentioned several times but never appears in person.

References
  1. Stevenson, Stevenson Randall (7 August 2019). Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474472869 – via Google Books.
  2. Royle, Trevor (6 January 2012). The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature. Random House. ISBN 9781780574196 – via Google Books.
  3. "Scottish Theatre Programmes - National Library of Scotland". digital.nls.uk.
  4. Shepherd, Jack; Dewhurst, Keith (1 June 2014). Impossible Plays: Adventures with the Cottesloe Company. A&C Black. ISBN 9781408147276 – via Google Books.
  5. "Willie Rough (1976)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019.
  6. Cream, T. V. "Willie Rough – TV Cream".
  7. "Willie Rough · British Universities Film & Video Council". bufvc.ac.uk.
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