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SUE GLOVER (1943 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Sue Glover was born in Edinburgh and lives in the East Neuk of Fife. She writes for radio, television and theatre. As well as Sacred Hearts, her theatre work includes The Bubble Boy, The Straw Chair, Bondagers, The Seal Wife, Artist Unknown, and Shetland Saga. The Traverse Theatre revived its production of Bondagers three times, and took it to London, and Canada. Several of her plays have been translated and produced in Europe and the United States. Her television work includes Homefront, The Bubble Boy, The Spaver Connection, Dear Life, Mrs Miller and Madame Montand, and work for Take the High Road and Strathblair. Radio work includes adaptations as well as original work, the most recent an adaptation of Tove Jansson's Fair Play.
Plays by Sue Glover
Artist Unknown | ||
| 1st Produced: | T.A.G. (Citizens' Theatre About Glasgow) | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220129 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96217 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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| Sue Glover's short play is an absorbing account which not only offers colourful vignettes of Mackintosh and Eardley's quite different lives and styles of work but also makes cogent parallels with the work of women artists today . . .By focusing on fascinating personal details Glover abstracts individual experiences to the general, thus addressing the marginalisation of women artists with sweeping effective strokes. | |||||
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Bear on A Chain | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Apr 2010 | |||||
Company: | A Play A Pie and A Pint | |||||
| 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 | #111795 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play about Alexander Selkirk: sailor, navigator, castaway, black sheep - and the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. | |||||
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Blow-Outs, Wrecks & Almanacs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pittenweem | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Pittenweem Arts Festival | |||||
| 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 | #121746 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Turn of last century newspaper editor, his wife, and his printer, write up the shipping, fishing, and junketing of the East Neuk villages. | |||||
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Bondagers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413691804 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13701 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | also published in 'Bondagers & The Straw Chair', Methuen | |||||
| Bondagers, winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award 1990, draws out the shadowy figures of women exploited as cheap agricultural labour in the Border country of the last century, evoking the rich sounds of a way of life, lived in servace to the gentry | |||||
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Bubble Boy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
Company: | Glasgow Theatre Club | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906220-32-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13702 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Inside this bubble lives Tuscan, who as a baby survived an industrial accident which removed all his natural immunities, and condemned him to a sterile life as the bubble boy of the title. Now 17, he is posing enormous problems for the research team who look after him. The headlines have died away, the glamour has faded, hopes of a cure have dwindled, and the boy is now rebellious. In the short length of the play Sue Glover sketches with considerable skill many of the issues raised by the boy - industry's indifference to its casualties, news values, the compromising of ethical standards, and the responsibilities and limits of freedom. | |||||
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Island In Largo, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | Byre Theatre, St Andrews | 1981 | ||||
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 | #13703 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | About Alexander Selkirk (the original Crusoe) and how he coped with 'civilisation' after life as a castaway | |||||
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Marilyn | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS >>> | 15 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Co-production: Citizens, Glasgow, & Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. | |||||
| 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 | #114794 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret stay at the same Hollywood Hotel. Friends - or rivals? | |||||
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Sacred Hearts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | Communicado Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906220-33-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13704 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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| Sacred Hearts is not what you expect from the title - thank God for that. It's about five prostitutes who occupy the local church to protest about their conditions, especially police indifference to the predations of a serial killer. Sue Glover's new play is based on a prostitutes' strike in Lyons in 1975, the year of the Yorkshire Ripper's first murder. . .The girls take possession of the Church, and out come the fags and the wine. They are safe, looked after by the priest and the ambivalent caretaker, "God's House belongs to everyone. Or does it? Despite the sharp Glaswegian patter, these words always sound sinister. The play reveals the precariousness of their existence and hypocrisy of society's attitudes to them, the dangers they run and the risks they take. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Fifth Estate Theatre Company - Acc.11443/110 | |||||
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Seal Wife, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220112 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13705 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
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| A riveting and magical piece of theatre that takes as its premise the legend of the Silkies, a race of seals who are known to come ashore, take on human form, marry unsuspecting humans, bear them children and then go back to the sea. In Sue Glover's wonderful interpretation of this folk-story we are transported, body and soul to a fishing community steeped in such superstitions. | |||||
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Shetland Saga | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Jul 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books (24 Aug 2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854596079 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41133 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| When a crew of Bulgarian sailors find themselves stranded in a Shetland harbour, few can predict the skullduggery, hostility and passion set to follow. | |||||
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Straw Chair, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413712103 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13706 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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| In The Straw Chair, set in the first half of the eighteenth century (1735-40), seventeen-year-old Isabel and her minister husband arrive from Edinburgh on the remote island of Hirta (St Kilda). Their encounter with the island's isolated inhabitants, and especially the outspoken and fearless Rachel of Grange, will change their lives for ever. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.9454/15 | |||||
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