It’s a summer night in Edinburgh on the eve of devolution and Sean Connery is reported to be coming to stay at the Caledonian Hotel. Six Edinburgh residents have different reasons to try and find him. Darren, an unemployed boy from Oxgangs dreams of being Connery’s PA and escaping from his dead end life. Eppie, a hopelessly bored middle class woman, reminisces about her youthful fling with Connery at Portobello outdoor swimming pool. Jerry, a doorman at the hotel who yearns to be a lounge croner wants to slip his demo tape under Connery’s door. Stuart, the local MEP dreams of Connery’s support in his boosterist plan to bring The Olympics to Edinburgh and he recruits the English sauna girl – Lauren – to help him succeed in his plan. The play winds through the course of one night following the character’s dreams of escape and rescue culminating in a brief encounter with a long black limousine outside St Giles Cathedral. Throughout the play are wound ‘choruses’ which reflect on the devolutionary issues of the time the play was written.
