Margaret Sinclair Story

The life of a young Scottish girl, destined to become a saint, is to be portrayed in a one-person drama at the St Ninian Institute, Lawside Road, Dundee on Saturday 6th May. Stephen Callaghan’s play portraying the life of Margaret Sinclair, a young factory worker and trade unionists, later to become a professed Sister of religion. The play was commissioned by the AGAP project in Glasgow and was premiered to great acclaim at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Tickets (£7 adults; £5 concessions) are available at the door, or by calling 01382 225453.

Margaret Sinclair was declared “Venerable” by the Catholic Church in 1978 and her cause for beatification and canonisation continues today. The part of Margaret in the play is taken by local Dundee girl, Rachel Murray. Rachel is one of ten brothers and sister and has worked abroad in the Philippines and in London but has return to her native city.

Rachel attended the World Youth Day in Krakow last summer, taking time to visit the home a saint show greatly admires, St John Paul II. Say Rachel, “He was a great actor, playwright, poet and theologian and Pope and now Saint who had a huge heart for young people, has a special place in my heart.”

The drama, in association with the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, is one of series of arts events at the St Ninian Institute which also includes an exhibition of Celtic and Pictish Art by Blairgowrie artist Larry Scrimgeour.

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