Midge-summer night scream for Mull stage

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: July 20, 2003| Author: Stephen Fraser | Copyright information

OUT damned midge! Scotland's smallest professional theatre is applying for a lottery grant to eradicate the swarms of bloodsucking insects that are eating its audiences alive.

Mull Theatre wants to buy a new gas-powered "midge magnet" trap - said to be capable of killing as many as 700,000 a day - in the hope that it will give some respite from the pest which mars summer on the Hebridean island and much of the West Highlands.

Alasdair McCrone, the artistic director, said the 35...

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