New Play 'Spycraft' at Stirling Theatre
A new play at the Stirling Festival Theatre is a wartime thriller about a secret agent using knitting to relay spies' secrets to thwart the Nazis.
The play, Spycraft, is a fictional thriller inspired by real people and events. It was created by playwrights and producers Claire Ross Dunn and Kirk Dunn, who combined their loves of theatre and knitting in the plot.
"We discovered that women had been performing these espionage duties for many years in warfare" and going unnoticed because they were women
Kirk Dunn explained that the inspiration arose from their research while writing their past play, The Knitting Pilgrim.
Author's summary: Spycraft play combines theatre and knitting.