Directed by Tom Cooper | Cast - Irene Allan, Karen Fishwick, Hilary Maclean
Armour is a quintessentially Scottish musical that gives a voice to the women behind Scotland’s famous bard.
Behind every great man, there are great women.
30 years after the death of Robert Burns, his wife Jean Armour is living a quiet life looking after her granddaughter. That is until she finds herself face to face with the bard’s infamous mistress Clarinda (or Nancy to most).
What do the two women who inspired many of Burns’s poems and songs talk about?
Armour is a musical with original songs, and with words and lyrics by Robert Burns.
Co-presented with Traverse Theatre, The Gaiety, Paisley Town Hall and Johnstone Town Hall.
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Cast
Creative Team
Writer and composer: Shonagh Murray
Director: Tom Cooper
Assistant Director: Lydia Green
Designer: Zephyr Liddell
SHONAGH MURRAY is a Glasgow-based composer/writer and musical director. Murray’s musical Nessie was chosen as part of Capital Theatres and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s New Musical Commissioning Hub 2021 and is commissioned for 2025. Other writing credits include Saturdays Doon The J.M. (‘This Is For You Dundee’ Festival, Dundee Rep) and The Great Elf Escape: LIVE (The Gaiety, Ayr).
Murray’s most recent musical director credits include: Urinetown (As associate, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); The Snow Queen (The Royal Lyceum Theatre); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (Kick Ass Theatre Productions Ltd, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 & deputy MD for UK Tour 2023); God Catcher (Prickly Pear Productions & Petrichor Productions, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023); A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Art Centre & KT Producing); Orphans (As associate, National Theatre of Scotland).
TOM COOPER is a Glasgow-based director working across theatre, musical theatre and opera. Last season for A Play A Pie and A Pint he directed Jen McGregor’s Who Pays the Piper. Recent work includes A Little Night Music and Big Fish for Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; Gianni Schicchi (Opera Bohemia, Scottish tour); Part of the Picture (Pleasance, Edinburgh); Brecht’s The Visions of Simone Machard (Hackney Empire and tour); La Traviata (UK tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Blenheim Palace Gardens); and the UK premiere of Adam Guettel’s Myths and Hymns (Finborough Theatre, London). He is a part-time Lecturer in Musical Theatre for RCS.
