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Who doesnât love an underdog? When Brora Rangers played eight-times Scottish cup winners Hearts in March, they enjoyed a perfect David-and-Goliath victory. The part-time team from a town with a population of 800 beat the side with the fourth biggest budget in Scottish football. For their fans, the Highlandersâ 2-1 victory was a tremendous pay-off.
Playwright Gary McNair would understand their dogged loyalty. Produced for David Greigâs Sound Stage series of audio plays, and loosely based on Ron Fergusonâs book of the same name, Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil is about supporters of Cowdenbeath, whose chant âWeâre shite and we know we areâ reveals a merry acceptance of defeat.
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“I enjoyed all of that, of course,” says Sievewright, “but I just felt there was something about me that didn’t quite fit in to that West End world. I wanted to get back into the Scottish scene; and In 2012, I had an audition for Cora Bissett’s Glasgow Girls, the musical about the Glasgow schoolgirls who campaigned for their asylum seeker friends to stay in the UK.
Dawn Sievewright and John McLarnan
“And as soon as I got into that, I just thought, this is it, this is what I’ve been looking for. Then I met Vicky Featherstone, the then-director of the National Theatre of Scotland, and she has been a huge influence on me as well, an amazing director.”