Bold theatre production sees actor Paul Higgins embrace Scotland’s post-punk music scene

• On paper Paul Higgins isn’t the ideal casting for a theatrical adaptation of This Is Memorial Device, the novel by David Keenan which gathered up awards and influential fans in 2017. To give the book its full title, which might provide the uninitiated with more of an idea of its content, This Is Memorial Device: An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978–1986.