A Play, A Pie And A Pint - Kontomble (The Shaman And The Boy)

'Did you know that your deepest memories are not stored in your brain?
Truly. No. Memories are lodged in your bones. Any creature born with bones is born with knowledge'.

Ray MacNair is seventeen years old and lives with his Auntie Ruth in Dennistoun. Dr Ezra Some comes from deepest, darkest West Africa and is visiting Glasgow on research. When a chance meeting at a bus-stop brings about an unlikely connection, Ruth worries that Ezra’s influence on her nephew may be damaging.

You see, Ray sometimes sees things - things that Ruth would argue are not really there. How can someone from a world so far removed from Glasgow in 2015 really help Ray with his fragile state of mind? Does Ezra’s knowledge of Dagara tribal culture and ritual have any place, or will it set off a dangerous spiral of events?

‘Kontomble’ is an examination of one boy’s battle with his own mind and the role our society, and the societies of others, play in moulding the human psyche.