A special open air theatre performance is one of the unexpected highlights of this year’s Viking Festival.

The fringe event takes place in the unusual setting of The Burns Garden, Douglas Park, Largs, on Saturday 5 September 1.15pm, and Sunday 6 September 7.30pm.

They say you should never take a cloth from the Clootie Tree for to do so is to be cursed with the ill of he who hung it there...

Yet that’s exactly what teenager Rowan has done and now she finds herself transported in the mists of time to 1747, Highland Scotland. It is a land where nothing is as it seems...

‘I stormed off - storm being the word here and wondered into one. I’m lost, midges have made a meal o’ ma arse and ma wellies have become smellies.’ The only way home is to travel the paths of the past. To do so is to enlist the help of three canny characters. The Seer - a mysterious wise woman. Young Rob, forever changed by the recent Jacobite Uprising. MacRath, a rascal of a rogue. With their help will she ever find the future she once fought so hard against?

Written by McLellan award winning Fiona Connor and brought to life by new, innovative Theatre group Gathering Storm and featuring a talented local cast, crew and original music by internationally renowned Irvine Robbie - ‘A journey that will make you laugh, make you greet and have ye rolling in yer seat.’ Please see the page www.gatheringstormscotland.co.uk for more information. And like, share us on Facebook www.facebook.com/gatheringstormscotland