Oh Caledonia!

Paul Higgins as William Paterson in Alistair Beaton’s Caledonia.

To Edinburgh yesterday to see the flagship indigenous production at this year’s Festival: Alistair Beaton’s play about the Darien misadventure in the late 17th century. For a dramatist this should be much more fertile ground than were the mangrove swamps of Panama for the poor would-be colonists.