Union review Costume drama meets panto in tale of UK's foundation
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghSix months before Scotland's independence vote, this play highlights the turbulence behind the union, but with little narrative interestWas there a secret clause in the 1707 Act of Union? Did it state that every Scottish historical drama had to be set in a pub off Edinburgh's Royal Mile, populated by ne'er-do-wells, undercover nobles and a poet who would declaim Roman verse whenever the convers…