No Great Mischief

Family both past and present is the glue that holds humanity together, a truism that Alistair MacLeod spins out engagingly and poetically in his award-winning 1999 novel, No Great Mischief. In the stage version by playwright David S. Young, two modern brothers of the MacDonald clan, Alexander and Calum, are the focus for looking at the family’s history, as far back as the 1790s. The play revisits the family history and its emotional legacies, as the cast of eight becomes various family members as well as dogs, horses and instrumentalists.