Scotland’s best playwright delivers the goods again

Outlying Islands

By David Greig

Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

Rating:****

Runs until September 2

‘Is war natural?” asks Robert, the pagan anti-hero of David Greig’s Outlying Islands. “Two men fight, two birds fight, that’s natural enough. But do you ever see a thousand or a million birds flock together to attack a million others? Birds kill, but you never see them massacre. War and God – perhaps they are peculiarly human ...