The 3 Estaites: The Millennium Version

David Lindsay’s The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland’s greatest play. First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Full of broad humour and pantomime-like farce, it also deals with dangerous topical issues, hitting out at corruption and hypocrisy in the ruling establishment, denouncing the oppression of the poor and calling for social reformation . This contemporary Scots version by the leading poet and playwright Alan Spence retains the structure and spirit of Lindsay’s script, while giving his language a new lease of life.