The Tailor Of Inverness

Type : Theatre



Matthew Zajac’s multi-award-winning ‘The Tailor Of Inverness’ is a story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia [Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine] came to be a tailor in Inverness. His life spanned most of the 20th century. His story is not straightforward. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939 and forced to work east of the Urals, then freed in an amnesty after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.



He then joined the thousands of Poles who travelled to Tehran, then Egypt, to be integrated into the British Army, fighting in North Africa and Italy. He was then resettled in Britain in 1948, joining his brother in Glasgow. This is the story he told. But there is another story, and perhaps a third and a fourth one, for in order to survive, he had to adopt different identities.


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