![]() ![]() John Cairney has also adapted and performed this script as a One-Man-Burns Supper under the title 'A Burns Experience'.Īctor, raconteur, writer and Burns scholar: John Cairney uses all these colours to paint a unique portrait of the complex Scot that was Robert Burns. A fitting end to the tragic but uplifting story of Robert Burns, Poet. It ends elegiacally with 'Auld Lang Syne'. ![]() 'Holy Willie's Prayer' has them squirming and the recital of 'Tam o' Shanter' is a whole show in itself. ![]() They get a chance to sing the famous songs. The audience cannot help but be involved in his story because it is also theirs. The actor, as Burns, opens by announcing to the audience - 'I have taken a whim to give you a history of myself.' He then proceeds, for the next hour to do just that, using, as far as possible, Burns's own words - engagingly, often movingly and with lots of humour. ![]() Indeed, John Cairney has become so associated with the part that his first volume of autobiography in 1987 was called 'The Man Who Played Robert Burns'. From the first performance at the original Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in January 1965 till the most recent at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival in a series of morning performances at Henderson’s, the solo Burns format has been a success with audiences all round the world. ![]()
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