MIDSUMMER [A PLAY WITH SONGS] PB B FORMAT – DAVID GREIG

Midsummer s weekend in Edinburgh. It s raining. Bob s a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city s underworld. Helena s a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people s husbands. She s totally out of his league; he s not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do. Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers. A collaboration between playwright David Greig and singer-songwriter Gordon McIntyre, Midsummer opened at the Traverse Theatre in October 2008 and was revived for an international tour in the summer of 2009.