The Tailor of Inverness

Matthew Zajac's internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning play follows this farm boy from Galicia, who was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939 and forced to work east of the Urals, then freed in an amnesty after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. He then joined the thousands of Poles who travelled to Tehran, then Egypt, to be integrated into the British Army, fighting in North Africa and Italy. He was then resettled in Britain in 1948, joining his brother in Glasgow. This story of journeys is about a son's search for his father, about 20th century Europe, about of deception, identity and survival.