About
The Fleck backdrop for the Edinburgh book festival. Alasdair was asked to create a closing event for the 2011 the Edinburgh book festival. His proposal was to have some of his friends read his play “Fleck” (his version of Goethe’s Faust) which had at this point not been performed. This was not greeted with unbridled enthusiasm. At the second meeting he revealed that the list of friends he was going to propose included himself, A.L.Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Janice Galloway, Louise Welsh and others. I was asked to paint the backdrop for the event. It was the fastest selling event at the history of the event at that point.
