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  • Designers Lizzie Clachan and Vicki Mortimer's sets and costumes update the twin plots to 1919.

    Director Katie Mitchell's Feminine Mystique Paul Levy 2011

  • Mitchell makes all this visually unforgettable – more than that, mesmeric – with the help of movement director Joseph Alford and a design by Lizzie Clachan and Vicki Mortimer.

    A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review 2011

  • They carried him to Clachan-nan-cno, where he lived for many years, a wiser and a better man, but he never again heard the each uisg mentioned without devoutly expressing the Name that saved him, and no wonder that neither he, nor any one else, has ventured ever since to sleep a night in the cottage near Rowan Linn.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • “I am ashamed to look no man in the face,” said Robin Oig, something moved; “and, moreover, I will look you in the face this blessed day, if you will bide at the Clachan down yonder.”

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Clachan 43 hold thee as a god — be one to me, and say that my son lives.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • They have taken up their residence at the ‘Cairngorm Arms’ — mine is at the other hostelry, the ‘Clachan of Whistlebinkie.’

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • They have taken up their residence at the ‘Cairngorm Arms’ — mine is at the other hostelry, the ‘Clachan of Whistlebinkie.’

    Burlesques 2006

  • Sassenach gentleman as far as Drymen or Bucklivie, — or the Clachan of

    Rob Roy 2005

  • He was obviously eager and anxious, and again despatched small parties of two or three men, some of whom, as I could understand from what the others whispered to each other, did not return again to the Clachan.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • “Just to see what your honour and ta gentlemen red-coats were doing doun here at ta Clachan.”

    Rob Roy 2005

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