“You'll leave this theatre in a different state.”

— Ivor Cutler

his last public performance opening a copy of Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/feb/03/theatre

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Scottish poet, humorist 1923–2006

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