Under the Fig Roll Tree
By Ben Blow
Walking in the garden of their new home in the Scottish Highlands, a young girl quizzes her father on the origin of every-day things, their move to the country and why they left the city in such a hurry…
Read by Charlotte Bister and Daniel Richards. Music by Ben Sutcliffe.
Runtime: 5 mins 41 secs
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About the author…
Ben Blow is an Edinburgh based Playwright, Producer, Actor, and History Buff. Since receiving a first class degree in Drama and Theatre Arts from Queen Margaret University Ben has been heavily involved with various grass-roots companies in Edinburgh. In 2009 he co-founded RFT (Reality Funds Theatre) a non-profit theatre company which regularly takes part in the Fringe Festival. Recent productions of Ben’s work include Cadaver Synod, a historical comedy concerning the trial of a Pope’s corpse, Vichy Goings On, a cold war comedy caper, and The Bruce in Ireland a straight piece chronicling a forgotten episode in Scottish history.