“It is loopy,” says Alan Cumming, who final fall assumed the place of creative director of Pitlochry Pageant Theater.
Now divide his time between Scotland and his home in the US, the place he organizes the American model of the Tv program The Traitars.
“For thus lengthy, now we have been imagining all of the follies that we wished to take action to do it with pleasure was fairly surreal.
“The truth that all of us do that once more, the truth that we’re nonetheless alive, is a trigger for celebration.”
The musical accelerates the place the sequence left.
Sebastian Flight and Steve McCracracken are nonetheless on the cabin of Restricted Air Scotia companies.
Solely this time, expensive, I, the tip might be in sight because the airline has simply offered.
“It might be the tip,” says Alan, who performs Sebastian.
“The final flight as we all know it and every kind of supernatural ginger issues are about to occur.”
“Excessive life got here from that custom of Scottish surreal comedy,” says Forbes, “and now we have tried to recreate that within the musical.
“However it’s also rooted within the reality of two sorts that work collectively and have been pressured to be collectively for years and years.
“Life has continued and have nonetheless been dreaming of different issues. Now they’re of their 60 years and ask, proper?”
As two forms of 60 years, who’ve achieved many issues of their separate careers, that is born from love, not the necessity.
And so they cannot wait to return to the street, as they did within the 1980s as younger graduates of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
“It’s precisely what we did once we first left the theater faculty, besides that we’re in nice theaters now,” says Alan.
“The enjoyable of touring, there may be nothing like that.
“Unusual cities, with lots of people you like, engaged on it as you advance. It’s a nice expertise.”
The Excessive Life is introduced by the Nationwide Theater of Scotland and the Dundee Rep The world premiere is within the consultant of Duendee on March 28, 2026, on tour to HMT Aberdeen, Edimburg Pageant Theater and Kings Theater Glasgow.