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   Is the road dance based on a true story?

   • The Road Dance is a 2022 film written by Richie Adams and John MacKay. The film is based on a book by the same name, also written by MacKay. The film is set in the early years of World War I on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Kirsty is a young woman who lives in Garenin with her widowed mother Mairi and sister Annie.

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   What is the road dance about?

   • “The Road Dance” is an unusually peculiar viewing experience. It begins with a Robert Louis Stevenson quote about the meaning of being a person over a very pretty shot of roiling seas and then establishes these seas are near the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, in 1904.

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   Will John Mackay's 'the road dance' be a film?

   • Film: John MacKay's novel The Road Dance will be turned into a feature film. Almost 20 years ago, STV News presenter John MacKay swapped news reporting for novels, writing the first in a three-part series set in the Western Isles. The Road Dance is set on the Isle of Lewis, where John would spend his childhood summers.

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   How does the road dance work?

   • Here’s how it works. Based on the best-selling novel by John MacKay, The Road Dance is a period drama set in the picturesque but bleak Outer Hebrides in the early twentieth century. It is a place where, as one character states, “even the sea comes to die.”

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   Why is 'the road dance' so hard to watch?

   • It’s a difficult watch, mostly because the film skips from grey and dour, to heart-wrenchingly desolate. You won’t get much of a sense of Scots humor or community in The Road Dance. Here, life is hard and everyone suffers.

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   Why is Kirsty raped at the road dance?

   • It’s at the Road Dance — an event set up to honor the young men of the village who are heading off to fight in the war — that Kirsty is raped by an unknown assailant. As would have been so common then she feels she has no option but to stay quiet and to keep her assault a secret.

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   The Road Dance is a 2022 film written by Richie Adams and John MacKay. The film is based on a novel by the same name, also written by MacKay. It is set in the early years of World War I on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, where it was also filmed.

3. www.discoverbritain.com › the-road-dance-filmThe Road Dance: An interview with Will Fletcher and John Mackay

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   May 20, 2022 · Based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Scottish news presenter John Mackay, which itself is loosely based on a true story, The Road Dance is set on the beautiful, but wild and rugged Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, which has sometimes been called ‘the edge of the world.’

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   Oct 13, 2023 · “The Road Dance” is an unusually peculiar viewing experience. It begins with a Robert Louis Stevenson quote about the meaning of being a person over a very pretty shot of roiling seas and then establishes these seas are near the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, in 1904.

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   May 14, 2022 · “We walked a very thin line between telling the true story – it was based on true events – yet at the same time making it entertaining and not so terribly dark and depressing that no one ...

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   May 19, 2022 · Based on the best-selling novel by John MacKay, The Road Dance is a period drama set in the picturesque but bleak Outer Hebrides in the early twentieth century. It is a place where, as one character states, “even the sea comes to die.”

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   Oct 18, 2020 · The Road Dance is set on the Isle of Lewis, where John would spend his childhood summers. Inspired by a true story, The Road Dance follows a tragedy which befalls a woman and her...

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   Aug 24, 2021 · The Road Dance follows a tragedy which befalls a woman and her newborn baby, set amid the outbreak of WWI in the Western Isles. Based on a true story, John says he was inspired to write the...