Except what does unfold is an unexpected and unconventional delight. Out of the toilet bowl, like Trainspotting in reverse, emerges an unlikely figure. Dressed in shimmering white, with a Scottish-flag cape, shorts adorned with a saltire and a baseball cap embellished with a poo emoji, he introduces himself as The Toilet. The heroic personification of privies through the ages – from moss and dirt, wood and clay, porcelaine to the current ceramic number – The Toilet tells us he has witnessed some remarkable people through the ages – as well as “some terrible arseholes”. Played with a Jim Carrey-esque impishness by Tyler Collins, The Toilet becomes our guide and narrator for a whistle-stop journey through over a thousand years of Scottish history. If this seems a somewhat random witness of Scottish history, Scots soon reminds us in song that the man who filed the first flush-toilet patent, inventor Alexander Cumming, was a Scot.
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