About Loving Burns

ROBERT BURNS IS DEAD, LONG LIVE ROBERT BURNS!

Alicia Devine’s RedHed theatre returns to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Loving Burns a play about the women in Burns’ life and their memories of what it was to love him. Adapted from her earlier piece Burns Night - a sell-out in 2003, Alicia says: “I’m a lover of Burns and wish I had been!”

This play is a fresh and frank look at a man whose Immortal Memory is in serious need of a makeover.

Veteran of such diverse productions as ‘Rab.C Nesbit’, ‘Rebus’ and ‘Trial and Retribution’ Alicia says, ” Loving Burns is as relevant today as any show I’ve been in. With the 250th anniversary of Rab’s birth just around the corner it’s a great time to be spreading the word about him with such a refreshing point of view”

Loving Burns will forever change the view that Burns is about haggis, turnip, tatties and badly spoken poetry!

Loving Burns is about Rab: son, lover, husband, father. What was it like to love him? Who is going to own his memory?

The women who knew him tell it like it was!
With poetry, songs and correspondence woven through the play, we are drawn in to the reality of loving a complex, flawed but ultimately, charismatic man who changed not only these women’s lives, but also the face of Scottish culture.