Ceilidh

Reputation is growing in Great Britain for the heroe of this play, Ronald MacDonald, since he has directed the scottish famous play from Shakespeare, Macbeth. When the play starts, he has just decided to take an advantage of his success, and has just finished to write his new play called the Ceilidh. Many of the characters from the Ceilidh strangely look like those in Macbeth.

Ronald has casted the parts to the actors who have already acted in Macbeth. The Ceilidh takes place in the end of the 16th century in the Highlands of Scotland, in Caithness. It derives from the tragic events connected with clan Sinclair : one father, full of pride and ambition, has emprisonned his son John in Girnigoe dungeon and starves him to death because he has tried to take the power. He is rough with John’s fiancée, princess Fiona, whom he has emprisonned too. She finally dies in Ackergill Tower, not far from Girnigoe Castle and begins to be “the green lady of Ackergill Tower”. His younger son, Georges, operates in the dark and tries to win his father’s trust to get a better chance to win the power.

That is the plot imagined by Ronald. At the same time, and that is only revealed at the end, this fiction played on the stage allows the producer to realise his ambitions :

change his life ;

give up with theatre ;

become the manager of a big land in Brazil ;

marry his secret mistress, Lou, the passionnate actress ;

get rid of two other girls : Heather (who is pregnant since she came with him to Caithness a few months earlier) and Rebecca, the terrible mistress who played as lady Macbeth in the previous play.