TAG Theatre Bring Its Runaway Success ‘Yellow Moon’

2007 will be the year of David Greig at the Festivals, as Yellow Moon forms part of Grieg's triumverate of plays, which includes The National Theatre of Scotland's The Bacchae for the International Festival and the Traverse's own Damascus, also for the Fringe.

Written specially for TAG by David Greig, Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the fortunes of two Fife teenagers on the run.

Silent Leila is an introverted girl who has a passion for celebrity magazines. Stag Lee Macalinden is the deadest of dead end kids in a dead end town. They never meant to get mixed up in a murder, but shit happens...and now they need a place to hide.

Yellow Moon follows Leila and Lee on their rollercoaster quest to find out who they really are. The play explores what it means to live in a celebrity-obsessed world and what it is that defines who you are when you're 17 years old.

David Greig has crafted a contemporary slice of gangster mythology which is brought to life by TAG's Director Guy Hollands. This is Greig's third commission for TAG, having previously written Petra and Dr Korczak's Example. Yellow Moon will be TAG's first offering for Festival audiences since Alastair Gray's Lanark in 1995 and its first since Jon Morgan has become Director of the Festival Fringe. Jon was General Manager at TAG for seven years.

This production features the full original cast: Nalini Chetty, Andrew Scott Ramsay, Keith Macpherson and Beth Marshall.

With absolutely no set or props, this striking play strips back the layers of theatre to reveal a remarkable piece of storytelling and the power of great performances. -- www.citz.co.uk