Previous Work
by George Gunn
A multitude of contemporary Highland issues incorporated into a sombre and abrasive family drama. Five week tour of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
1994 - The Great
Bunillidh Volcano
by George Gunn
A community play performed as a promenade piece in the Sutherland village of Helmsdale.
An extraordinary experience, performed by over 100 people with all the aplomb of seasoned actors and the joy of exotic fiestas, a true people's theatre was erupting in Helmsdale. The Scotsman
The Niss by George Gunn
1996 - The Niss by George Gunn
An Edinburgh Festival production at the Famous Grouse House.
The Niss shows, with a kind of gloomy grandeur, how violence grows out of the humiliation and emasculation of a family of men slowly losing their grip on the Caithness farmland that has been theirs for generations. The Grey Coast company play it with tremendous naturalistic passion. Scotland on Sunday
1996 - Flags by George Gunn
A community play set in Caithness about the rise and fall of the local Flagstone industry.
Ingeniously directed by Hugh Loughlin, the actors mastered an exacting challenge. Fine songs, sensitively sung, Gunn's Northern dramas give people a deeper sense of their own story, past and present. The Scotsman
1998 Camster
by George Gunn
Ten short plays opening different windows on modern life in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Passionate emotion, love, rage and anguish in a brilliant professional performance that captivated the attention of the audience throughout. The Northern Times.
Camster by George Gunn
1998 - The Orkneyinga Saga
An eight months arts/education project which led to three performances by fifty children from Castletown School near Thurso. This medieval Icelandic text, which tells of the coming of the Norse to Caithness, was brought to life by the children.
Brian Smith as Egil
by George Gunn
An interpretation of the classic Icelandic "Egilssaga" brought together a professional theatre team and six community casts from around the Highlands and Islands, under the direction of Sue Weston, Lisa Grindall and Artair Donald. Icelandic composer Áskell Másson joined the company for this tour to Thurso, Stromness, Stornoway, Golspie, Inverness and Portree.