Tea With Clarinda
Tea With Clarinda is a stage play about a meeting between Jean Burns, the poet Robert Burns's widow, and Nancy McLehose, 
with whom Burns had had a romantic friendship - Burns and Nancy wrote many letters to each other using pen names Sylvander and Clarinda. The two women are supposed to have met only once, in the early 1820s, about 25 years after Burns's death, when they had tea together at the home of Edinburgh publisher George Thomson. No one knows what happened at that meeting, and the play is a fictional representation of what might have happened when "the wife" met "the other woman", bearing in mind that this was an era when good manners were paramount!.
The play was enacted in St John's Town of Dalry Town Hall on Friday 19th June. A great time was had by all and we look forward to more of the same or similar in the future.
It also happened in:-
Moniaive, St Ninian's Parish Church Saturday 20th June
Dalbeattie, Birchvale Theatre, Thursday 25th June
Dumfries, Theatre Royal, Saturday 4th July (in association with Burns Howff Club).
It also took place in Selkirk and Edinburgh, 27th june and 4th July respectively.