''Pylon'' is a
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
play, first performed at
The Palace Theatre Kilmarnock in 2017.
''Pylon'' fuses
monologue
In theatre, a monologue (also known as monolog in North American English) (in , from μόνος ''mónos'', "alone, solitary" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts ...
, live music and archive news footage. The story focuses on links between electricity pylons and high rates of cancer diagnoses in the socioeconomically deprived Shortlees housing scheme in the south of Kilmarnock.
As of 2022, ''Pylon'' has been performed in Kilmarnock,
The Mitchell Theatre in Glasgow and
Theatre Royal Stratford.
''Pylon'' was created and written by Graeme Cameron, Paul Montgomery, Stevie Smith and Paul Milligan.
References
Scottish plays
2017 plays
Plays set in Scotland
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