|
|
JAMES DUTHIE |
|
Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
James Duthie is 62 and is a former fisherman who lives with his wife, Margaret. The couple have two grown-up children, and live in the coastal fishing village of St. Combs. James worked as a fisherman from the age of 15, and only started writing at the age of 40. His promising career as a TV writer was cut tragically short by the onset of Crohn's Disease. Despite the subsequent onset of osteoporosis, a heart condition and depression, James has continued to battle with his ill health and has thankfully now regained his creative urge to write. Address: 18 East Street, St. Combs , FRASERBURGH, AB43 8ZX. Telephone: 01346-582196
Plays by James Duthie
Donal and Sally | ||
| 1st Produced: | Produced by the BBC as a Play for Today | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | (Play for Today Series). EM, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41510 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about two mentally handicapped teenagers that questions society's views on their right to have a full sexual relationship. The play was directed by Brian Parker and won the prestigious directors award at the Prague Festival. The actor Gerard Kelly (City Lights, Brookside, Dalziel & Pascoe, Rab C. Nesbit and Hamish Macbeth) also attributes his part in Donal and Sally as being the launch pad of his professional acting career | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Drystane Dyker, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Produced by BBC Scotland | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17542 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play won the Harry Govan Memorial Award for 'Best Scottish Drama' of that year. | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about Robbie, a drystane dyker, ex-soldier and alcoholic, who is haunted by the demons of his past life as a soldier, when he had to kill his fellow man | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Five Kilo Johnny | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17543 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Theatre Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Greta | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10439 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Theatre Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The lead role of 'Greta' was played by the late Russell Hunter (Callan, Para Handy, Scotch & Wry etc.), and was produced by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, to great critical acclaim. It also proved to be the most financially successful production staged | |||||
Synopsis: | A theatre play that is character driven and explores euthanasia through the character of the transvestite 'Greta' who is slowly going mad with the strain of having to look after his paralysed mother, with little or no help from his brother or his family | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Sealkie, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17750 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Theatre Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Star O'Buchan | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17876 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Theatre Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
