Miss Lindsay's Secret
The Lemon Tree
5 West North Street
Aberdeen
AB24 5AT
Maria MacDonell / Georgina MacDonell Finlayson / Alan Finlayson Come in. Shut the door. Open the box. What’s inside? Concealed for over a century, this intimate tale of a Scottish seamstress binds the gentle hills of Glenesk to Canada’s heady Klondike gold rush. Using original live music, drama and historical material from Glenesk Museum, a lively and moving local story, woven into Scotland’s national identity, reaches across time and continent. This compelling show grows from a deep respect for material culture, in an age when life stories are lost to the ether. Written and performed by Maria MacDonell with Alan Finlayson and musician Georgina MacDonell Finlayson. None Age category: 12+
Miss Lindsay’s Secret. Come in. Shut the door. Open the Box. What’s inside? ‘An outstanding and heartbreakingly beautiful play’ (@JennyGilruth, Scottish Culture Minister 2021) A museum curator finds hidden letters binding Glenesk to Canada’s Klondike goldrush. But should she tell their intimate secrets? A true tale of sewing and 1900’s sexting, revealed by The Curator, Musician and Man – Maria MacDonell, Georgina MacDonell Finlayson, Alan Finlayson. Original live music and archives bring the past to the present, Scotland to the world.
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