Brian Cox is directing and co-starring in Glenrothan, the story of two estranged brothers (Cox and fellow Scotsman Alan Cumming) who reunite to save their family’s whisky distillery.

Earlier this summer in Edinburgh and Dundee, the Scottish actor Brian Cox played the great 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith in James Graham‘s play Make it Happen . The drama concerns the global financial crash of 2008 and the Royal Bank of Scotland’s role in the disaster.

Playing the ghost of fiscal past was a return to the Scottish stage by Cox for the first time in a decade. What he found, particularly in the Scottish capital, were unusually animated crowds.

“Normally Edinburgh audiences are very reserved but not in this case,” the Succession actor told The Globe and Mail. “There was a lot o

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