Much as Gordon Brown reviewed to his face after a performance of Hodgson’s previous show 1975, Big In Scotland has so many accents and a story that goes all the way through. It’s a lot of fun, recounting Hodgson’s experience moving to Glasgow and the resultant identity crisis. He has a lot of fun with the Scottish dialects (and so too does Claire, taking on the daunting task of live captioning the show with, one suspects, some advanced warning from Hodgson as to what was to come), but all in service of an examination of how the English view the Scottish and what that means. Also in there is a feeling of disappointment in himself for his best man’s speech and inability to tell his best friend how much he loves him, which is handled and integrated beautifully with an emotionally satisfying conclusion. This also pulls in a reflection on his previous, slightly higher concept Edinburgh shows, not in a way to declaim them or disavow them, but a sincere attempt to understand why it was he wrote those shows the way he did, and what that says about him. I found it moving on a lot of levels, whilst never losing sight of actually being funny.