The Giftie

Description

Alan Richardson’s The Giftie is based upon the very real character of Robert Kirk, the Gaelic scholar of Aberfoyle, who disappeared bodily into the Otherworld in 1691. For over a generation after his death young women in the Trossachs, in the last stages of their labour, would go to his old house and give birth there, in the hope of bringing him back into the world.

The Giftie is a multi-level tale about the havoc that ensues when Marcy Macleod, a troubled woman living in that quintessential English town of Bath, accidentally ‘summons stirs and calls him up’ into the latter part of the 20th Century.