Guest Blog: Ruaraidh Murray - Big Sean, Mikey and Me

Big Sean, Mikey and Me is the story of ‘Ruaraidh’, his imaginary friend Sean Connery and his childhood pal, rough diamond Mikey and their adventures through the Edinburgh the tourist guides omit. 

Here the Casuals and the gangs of the 1980’s are prevalent to a generation’s history growing up in the Scottish capital at the time.

I first performed my one-man show Big Sean, Mikey and Me at the Gilded Balloon for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012. The Gilded Balloon then toured Scotland with myself and Big Sean, Mikey and Me in February 2013.

I call Big Sean, Mikey and Me a dark comedy with a heart. My childhood friend Mikey Anderson sadly died in September 2009. In 2011, I started to attend the playwright Stewart Permutt’s writers group at The Actors Centre in Covent Garden. Here I started to write Big Sean, Mikey and Me.