The Christmas Revels: A Scottish Celebration of the Winter Solstice

THE CHRISTMAS REVELS is a series of stage productions which re-create holiday customs from various cultures and time periods. In this year's CHRISTMAS REVELS, A SCOTTISH CELEBRATION OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE, we are transported back to eighteenth-century Scotland, to a rural hamlet in the country's northwestern Highlands. There, we join the villagers as they begin their annual celebration of Hogmanay, the Scottish New Year. Audience members will experience traditional folk ballads, Highland dances (including the famous Argyll Broadswords Dance), poems written by Scotland's national poet Robert Burns, and a Guisers' (Mummers') Play.