Hope Your Flowers Bloom: Nature and working class masculinity explored in new play

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Hope Your Flowers Bloom: Nature and working class masculinity explored in new play
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BILLY Connolly famously called inner city schemes “deserts wi’ windaes” and for Clydebank-born Raymond Wilson the description resonates.

“Growing up, I remember feeling it wasn’t colourful enough and there wasn’t enough green space,” said Wilson, who escaped to the local ­library to read about nature when he couldn’t experience it.before ­winning a scholarship for a masters in acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

“He gets obsessed with the idea that if he gets with this woman he can ­escape into nature and the story follows their adventures as he tries to impress her in this anxious, unhealthy way.” Luckily his parents noticed ­Wilson’s interest in nature and made the effort to take him to green spaces where possible as well as to the local library where he could learn about their ecology and biology.

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