The Wolf of Poyais – Assembly Roxy
There are some stories so extraordinary that the difficulty in putting them on stage is not making them interesting but making the theatre as interesting as the story.
The Wolf of Poyais, written by Sam Went and performed by Thom Tuck, takes on one of the most extraordinary confidence tricks in British history, the story of Scottish soldier, adventurer and fraudster Gregor MacGregor, the man who managed to sell people land in a country that did not exist.
Born in Scotland in 1786, he became a soldier and adventurer, fought in the South American wars of independence and then performed perhaps his greatest feat of imagination. He invented Poyais.
Not merely a piece of land. A country.
It had a government, currency, titles, documents, land for sale and, most importantly, inves...
