THE MISSING

 Andrew O’Hagan’s first book, The Missing, was a non-fiction work about absence – people who vanish without trace, people who die and are not mourned, people who lose their place in history because their lives are too insignificant to be recorded.
In order to turn this journalistic enterprise into a play for the National Theatre of Scotland, the director John Tiffany and O’Hagan, as adaptor of his own work, have put the reporter centre-stage, in the gauchely questing shape of Joe McFadden, who barges around asking questions, attempting to put the missing on the map.