Gregor Fisher & More Join Cast of YER GRANNY Scotland Tour

Well known Scottish TV actor Gregor Fisher will be playing Yer Granny, in the National Theatre of Scotland's new gallus comedy of the same name which tours Scotland in 2015. Also announced as joining the cast are Brian Pettifer, (recently seen in BBC TV's The Musketeers), Barbara Rafferty, (Rab C Nesbitt) and Louise McCarthy (London West End's Mamma Mia!) They will join Jonathan Watson, Paul Riley and Maureen Beattie, also known to audiences for their popular stage, screen and comedy performances.

A bold and riotous new comedy, adapted by popular Scottish playwright, Douglas Maxwell, set in a Scots-Italian family fish and chip shop, Yer Granny, is a new adaptation of Roberto La Cossa's La Nona, Argentina's favourite play. The production is touring to Scotland's large theatre stages from 19 May to 4 July 2015, visiting Greenock, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Dundee as well as a run in Belfast.

National Theatre of Scotland presents the World Premiere of Yer Granny From the original Argentinian play La Nona written in Spanish by Roberto Cossa In a new English version by Douglas Maxwell, Literal translation by Kathy Khorrami and directed by Graham McLaren.

Scotland, 1977. The Minerva Fish Bar has been shuttered and empty for a long time. Out of business. Bust. But not for sale! Never! One day - so the family credo has it - she shall rise again and all will be well....

Yer Granny is a riotous new comedy, about a diabolical 100-year-old granny who's literally eating her family out of house and home. She's already eaten their fish and chip shop into bankruptcy and now she's working her way through their kitchen cupboards, pushing the Russo family to desperate measures just to survive.

As proud head of the family, Cammy is determined that The Minerva Fish Bar will rise again and that family honour will be restored - and all in time for the Queen's impending Jubilee visit. But before Cammy's dream can come true and before Her Maj can pop in for a chat, a single sausage and a Royal seal of approval, the family members must ask themselves how far they will go to solve a problem like Yer Granny...

Yer Granny is the first Scottish adaptation of Argentina's biggest smash-hit comedy.

Yer Granny has been adapted by award-winning playwright Douglas Maxwell (A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity, Miracle Man, If Destroyed True) from Argentina's most popular and provocative play, and is directed by National Theatre of Scotland Associate Director Graham McLaren (In Time O' Strife, The Tin Forest, A Christmas Carol).

La Nona premiered in Buenos Aires in 1977. In the UK, the play was first produced for the stage by Attic Theatre Company at Wimbledon Studios, London in 1995. A BBC TV version of La Nona was broadcast in 1991 as part of the Performance series, starring Les Dawson as the granny, in a cast that also featured Liz Smith, Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall.

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