THIS week we give readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to Uncle Varick, by John Byrne, which starts a run at the King’s Theatre, in Edinburgh, next month. And we have tickets for the performance on Thursday 8th May at the King’s.This is a co-production between Rapture Theatre and Mull Theatre and runs from Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th May. What happens when the rock and roll of swinging sixties in London collides with the rock and moss of remote Scotland? Sandy Sheridan, pretentious art critic and self-proclaimed cultural icon, returns from London to his Scottish country pile – with his new, much younger, wife in tow. Waiting for him are his stoical daughter Shona and his acerbic ex-brother in law, Uncle Varick. John Byrne, acclaimed author of The Slab Boys Trilogy and Tutti Frutti, and iconic Scottish painter (whose works include the domed ceiling of the King’s Theatre), relocates Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya to 1960’s rural Scotland in a play full of comedy, pathos, jealously, lust and some very dodgy chainsaws. Full of razor sharp comic one liners and thoughtful observations on the human condition set against a rocking sixties soundtrack, Uncle Varick is a great comedy and a great night out.
To win the tickets to see Uncle Varick get a Times and send your entry in to the Times Office by next Wednesday.
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