Script Notes

Notes on adapting the novel into a stage play by Alastair Cording

In this section, Alastair Cording describes the process of adapting Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel into a stage play.

Part  1: Script Notes
Part  2: Process of adaptation
Part  3: Community
Part  4: Religion
Part  5: Impact of the outside world
Part  6: Response to change and the notion of progress
Part  7: Symbolism
Part  8: Education
Part  9: Language
Part 10: Music
Part 11: Gender
Part 12: Sexuality
Part 13: The two Chrisses
Part 14: Scottish identity