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River Tweed Peebles Scotland

Hostage by Jenny Chapman ( About the author )

The world premiere of an exciting and topical new play. James Douglas is an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. A hostage in the hands of religious fundamentalists, he is faced with years of solitary confinement and suffering of mind and body. At home in Scotland, a young woman is struggling against the indifference of the political and religious establishment to achieve his liberation. The shattering effects of his captivity will irrevocably alter both of their lives.
A very contemporary issue, but the twist in the tail is in the setting, for history has been repeating itself in our time. The late fifteenth century (when the crusading Douglas family fell from power in Scotland), saw the outbreak of Muslim fundamentalist jihad in North Africa and Andalus, and the corresponding determination of Christian rulers to extend their power in Spain. On both sides religious fervour and sexist attitudes are ruining the lives of ordinary people and sowing seeds of bitterness and disappointment. Meanwhile, at the Holy Cross in Peebles, the Trinitarian Order is surprisingly devoted to the Redemption of the Christian captives of the Moors .
 

Donna Vandenberghen as Megan in Hostage. A newcomer to Tweed Theatre , Donna made her debut as Lady Mary in The Masque of the Cross Kirk- most appropriately as that is the locus of much of the Hostage action.

Richard Nisbet and Scott Noble in rehearsal