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Tam O'Shanter

One of Scotland 's most famous and adored ghost stories Tam O'Shanter by Wee Stories Theatre Company takes the poem to where it finds its biggest fans: the children.

The spooky story of Tam and his Meg facing witches and demons provided not just fear but above all fun for kids and grown ups in the audience.

More then telling a story, Andy Cannon reveals the Burns' poem as quintessential to every Scot. That is maybe why there was a smile on almost every audience member, of every age.

Cannon takes care of you from the very start, like feeling a big embrace. We are sent to another world, a world of the storyteller's childhood's memories of Tam O'Shanter . Together with him, we have Wendy Weatherby, the primary school teacher that played cello and provided an essential score for the telling of the poem. It is a reinterpretation not just of the poem but also of storytelling. More than a story, the play became a game to the children and the fun did not stop from beginning to end.

Extremely well made, it's a show to be enjoyed by every age, go with the whole family.

17 October 2004
TAM O' SHANTER
Wee Stories Theatre Company
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Review © Mauro Silva, October 2004