Although set in a Dublin pub, the stage version of Once has distinctly Scottish roots. <\/p>\n
It was created by John Tiffany at the request of former Bond producer Barbara Broccoli.<\/p>\n
“I thought she was mad,” he recalls, “but there was a scene which chimed in the film, of a big Dublin house party, where everyone does their turn and that I thought was the way in, only we used a pub where they swapped Czech and Irish folk songs.”<\/p>\n
At the time, he was taking a sabbatical from the National Theatre of Scotland in the US and Black Watch, which he’d directed and co-created, was on tour there.<\/p>\n
“My whole apprenticeship for life, work and heart was here in Scotland. Glasgow University, the Traverse Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland.<\/p>\n
“So I made the show out of the person I was then, someone who was passionate about the particular characteristics of Scottish theatre, like music and direct address and a real sense of community.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although set in a Dublin pub, the stage version of Once has distinctly Scottish roots. It was created…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}