Sit With Us For A Moment And Remember

Sit with us for a moment and remember lasts eight minutes. Too many words here would swamp it.

Buy your ticket and you’ll find yourself on a park bench with what should be a beautiful view of Edinburgh’s most distinctive landmark: Arthur’s Seat. This particular visit to the bench saw the hill shrouded in fog and the bench sodden from persistent rain. In a masterstroke of forethought, The Lincoln Company provided an umbrella. And serendipitously, the weather added far more drama and possibly poignancy than a birds cheeping sun-soaked afternoon ever could.

This is a show for one, delivered through headphones and by actors; a musing from Michael Pinchbeck on memory, the sucker punch pain of loss and the importance of not forgetting. The soundscape is carefully executed, the instructions (non-intrusive) clearly delivered, the timing from these young actors spot on. And you’re left with a sense of being one more in a gigantic patchwork of stories etched onto this dramatic cityscape, making it all the more important that we make space to remember the stories that matter.