NEW YORK—A woman goes on a long journey of self-discovery in the National Theatre of Scotland’s immersive and thoroughly enjoyable offering of “The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart,” performed at The McKittrick Hotel.
Prudencia (Melody Grove), a 28-year-old, prim-and-proper academic, specializes in the study of Scottish folk music. She is well-known in educational circles, but her colleagues consider her something of a throwback—a scholar obsessed with the romance of the past, in and of itself, rather than bringing the music to the present or seeing future possibilities of the art.
One of her biggest critics is Dr. Colin Syme (Paul McCole), a musical scholar in his own right who has received a grant to study the significance of local football chants.
