We are delighted to announce that James Robertson’s best-selling novel has been adapted by Matthew Zajac and will tour Scotland in February and March 2025, thanks to the support of Creative Scotland’s Touring Fund.

Published in 2006 and longlisted for that year’s Booker Prize, The Testament of Gideon Mack instantly became a Scottish classic, a play about grief and the crisis of faith in our society, channelled through the story of one generous, energetic, perceptive, constrained, ashamed, confused and very Presbyterian individual, the Reverend Gideon Mack of Monimaskit.  This is a story of late 20th century post-war Scotland, of the manse and the permissive age, a story of a Church of Scotland minister who doesn’t believe in God. Then he meets the Devil.