For an excellent night out in Edinburgh follow the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour
The Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour - An Introduction
Join the intrepid duo, Clart (as in muck!) and our clean-hankied intellectual McBrain, who will lead you on a brilliant and witty dramatic romp through the wynds, courtyards and pubs of Edinburgh's Old and New Town. A hilarious duel of wits across three hundred years of great writing and colourful characters.
Performed in and out of Edinburgh’s famous - and infamous - taverns and ‘howffs’, the tour takes the form of an impassioned debate between two fictional characters, Clart and McBrain. In a lively duel of wits, they question the importance which the unique pub atmosphere offered creative and intellectual thought.
It is no exaggeration to presume that tippling a dram or pint of ale helped to inject a touch of verve, invention and verbal magic to Scottish writing over the centuries.
Press here to listen to Clart and McBrain in discussion.
"A tour full of charm and wit in keeping with the writers who inspired them."
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Why do we need both Clart and McBrain? Moira Burgess, the author of this work, explains: "The answer lies in the idea of duality, something which observers have found recurring throughout both Scottish literature and Scottish life, perhaps throughout the Scottish character itself.
And Edinburgh is a city of duality. It was so in the early eighteenth century, the period in which the Tour begins. To learn more you'll have to come on the Tour!
