DESCRIBED as a love letter to Scotland, Shades of Tay is intended as “a gift to those isolated by Covid-19 and those who feel isolated from theatre in general.”

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Digitally available until late November, the series was launched with the 30-minute-long Beautiful Boy by Douglas Maxwell, a painfully moving lyrical monologue, delivered against a shifting, shimmering collage video of the river and its wooded landscape.