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Meslier Awarded 5-Star Rating 22/8/2006
Scotsman/Edinburgh Evening News awards 5-star rating for "Meslier".

Read the full review - http://living.scotsman.com/performing.cfm?id=1234702006
Images From The Play 21/8/2006
Click the link below to view images from the play.

http://www.digitalfaceproductions.co.uk/meslier/

Courtesy of Colin Usher.
'Meslier is brilliant – powerful and profound - *****' 21/8/2006
Sebastian Payne of Resonance FM
'This is a gem of a play about real history: it tells a powerful and disturbing story' 21/8/2006
Margaret Tyzak, Actor
'A really excellent play about love in a world without God' 21/8/2006
Andrew Brown of The Guardian, and The Church Times
Greenock Telegraph - Prentis Hancock 19/8/2006
A GREENOCK actor who starred in Dr Who has taken his very own trip through time and space to reminisce about his upbringing in the town.

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Atheism Comes Full Circle to Edinburgh 17/8/2006
Scotsman/Edinburgh Evening News Preview

Jean Meslier, a French Catholic priest around the end of
the 17th century and the author of a bitter atheistic treatment, was a little known hero of the Enlightenment and an instigator of the ideals of the French Revolution.
Tom Tabori Three Weeks August 2006 15/8/2006
'Dramatic tension fashioned out of a radical priest’s struggle with his secret atheism ..... listen out for this fine language and you have yourself something more than just enjoyable'
Warwick Thompson, Metro critic 14/8/2006
'As waves of fundamentalism crash around us in all directions, it's more important than ever to have the benefits of secularism and rationality expounded as forcefully as they are here.' Warwick Thompson, critic 'Metro'
An interview with DAVID ROYLANCE 10/8/2006
Theatre director DAVID ROYLANCE gives the background to the creation of Meslier, a new play about a largely forgotten but influential freethinker who lived almost 300 years ago. Part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Read the full interview - http://www.textualities.net
Conflict between love and belief 8/6/2006
Conflict between love and belief is at the heart of this real-life historical drama by David Hall, whose last play 'Cross Road Blues' was a 5-star (Scotsman) sell-out hit at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe.
'MESLIER' a blasphemous, new, historical drama by David Hall 8/6/2006
MESLIER is a powerful drama about one man's struggle with conscience and belief. The Play raises important issues about religion and dogma, through a very human story.
REVIEW - CROSS ROAD BLUES 18/8/2005
A TALE of a Faustian pact at the dark heart of the blues, this seductive drama crackles with diabolic menace.