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IAIN FINLAY MACLEOD |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
Playwright Iain Finlay MacLeod made his English debut at the Finborough Theatre in 2009 with I Was A Beautiful Day in a production which has recently transferred to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. He is one of Scotland's most prolific contemporary Scots Gaelic writers, having written many works for theatre, radio, film and television. Writing in both English and his native Scots Gaelic, Iain has also directed numerous documentaries on Celtic folklore and arts, and was series director of the BAFTA-winning show TACSI, which won Best Arts Series in the Scottish BAFTA's and Best Entertainment Programme at the Celtic Film and Television Festival. Television includes Machair which won a Writers' Guild Award for Best Foreign Language Serial Drama. His work for theatre includes St Kilda (Gaelic Arts Agency), Broke, Homers, Alexander Salamander and Road from the Isles (Traverse Theatre), Salvage (Tosg Theatre Company) and Cliff Dancing (National Gaelic Youth Theatre). His work for BBC Radio 4 includes The Watergaw, The Gold Digger and an adaptation of Angela Carter's The Kitchen Child. Other radio includes Frozen and an adaptation of The Pearlfisher for BBC Radio Scotland. His film work includes The Inaccessible Pinnacle (Young Films). He is also the author of several novels.
Plays by Iain Finlay Macleod
Alexander Salamander | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| 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 | #45242 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | the Story of a Teenage Pyromaniac | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Atman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tosg Theatre Company | 2006 | ||||
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 | #93506 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A is lonely. A works in the library. One day he goes through the wrong door and ends up in a strange room filled with books, as far as the eye can see. He feels strangely drawn to one of the books, so he picks it up and begins to read. In it is his life, in minute detail. It takes thirty pages to describe the first time he ate something sweet. Fifty pages to describe his first memory. Soon, he can do nothing apart from read. B, a psychiatrist he regularly sees, suggests an experiment. To see if it will help. He suggests writing in the book and seeing what happens. Inspired by the stories of Jorge Luis Borges, Atman was first performed in Scots Gaelic by Tosg Theatre Company on a Highlands tour and received its English language world premiere at Finborough, London, 01 Jun 2010. | |||||
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Bred In The Bone | ||
| 1st Produced: | ES Theatre Company, NY | 2005 | ||||
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 | #93555 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Adaptation of the novel written by David Pickup for the stage | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Broke | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #58602 | |||
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Genre: | Short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - David Lescot. Part of "Tilt" | |||||
Synopsis: | Broke, by French writer David Lescot, seen here in an English language version by lain F MacLeod, is a less-is-more tale of a bankrupt man, his wife and his asset-stripping guardian angel liquidator. With the enforced loss of all material possessions - including the rare jazz record collection - a man has a slow-burning Zen epiphany, gradually learning that small is beautiful and less is more profitable for the soul. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cliff Dancing | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Gaelic Youth Theatre | 1991 | ||||
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 | #45248 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about the evacuation of St. Kilda | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Highland Shorts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Traverse Publishing, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41129 | |||
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Genre: | Shorts One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | George Gunn, Marjory Callander, Duncan McLean, Grace Barnes, Iain F Macleod, Gordon Urquhart, Carol I Walker | |||||
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Homers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21942 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a tough and funny play about Glaswegian orphans forcibly transplanted to the Islands. 1967. Alex and Mary are 'homers', sent from care homes in Glasgow to live with a new family in the Islands. They are thrown into the kaleidoscope of island life: the teacher who barks in a strange language; the Minister and his penchant for Elvis; Andrena with her fetish for Hebridean delicacies. Alex pushes his new dad too far and is sent back to Glasgow into the care of Mr Pig, a sadistic butcher. But Mary, back on the island, has troubles of her own. So Alex finds himself on the ferry again, slicing through the black mirror of the sea. . . | |||||
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I Was A Beautiful Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | An Lanntair Arts Centre, Isle of Lewis, Scotland | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44695 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Dan and Lube are patients in a psychiatric unit on the Isle of Lewis. Dan is recovering from post traumatic stress disorder following tours of duty in Belfast and in the first Gulf war. Lube is suffering from schizophrenia following a nervous breakdown. Together they enter a fantasy about escaping, but Lube gets jealous and disruptive when Dan talks about visiting a female cartographer. Lube comes off his medication and thigns begin to boil over- | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mairi Anndra's House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eden Court, Scotland | 2005 | ||||
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 | #45246 | |||
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Genre: | childrens musical Youth Audience | |||||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A musical for children on the life of the American folklore collector Margaret Faye Shaw | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Metagama | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #93554 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | " I translated sections of the play into Gaelic" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mister Sequester (Un Homme en Faillite) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #45245 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pearlfisher, the | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company, In association with Eden Court Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73127 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Summer 1948 in the North West Highlands. Post-war austerity grips the land, but here the pickings are rich for Traveller people, as they trade, poach, rustle - and fish for pearls in the clear water of the rivers. Relations with the local people hang on a fragile thread, as they barter with one another, juggling language and meaning - and sometimes desire, from a distance. And then one day Jess, a girl from the village, spies Ali the Traveller close up, trawling the river-bed. Jess takes his pearls and her lover Roderick pledges to make a necklace for her - setting in motion a chain of events which will change both communities for ever. Half a century later, in the Autumn of 2007, the waters have risen, and the story is still being told and re-enacted. The Pearlfisher is an epic tale of kinship, money and desire | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Road From The Isles | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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 | #45244 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Salvage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tosg Theatre Company | 2000 | ||||
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 | #45247 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Silver Bough, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Part of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Youth Music Theatre: UK | |||||
| 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 | #85114 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Writer: Iain Finlay Macleod; composer: Gerard McBurney; based on the books by F Marian McNeil | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Somersaults | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 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 | #123418 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Somersaults was originated following discussions between Iain Finlay MacLeod and Vicky Featherstone (Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland) on the decline of the Gaelic language. Iain was then given a Writer's Attachment with the Company in 2009 and was subsequently awarded a play-writing commission which sees this presentation of Somersaults as a work in progress during Reveal | |||||
Synopsis: | Questions of identity, belonging and a sense of self are universal, no matter what language you speak. Cambridge graduate James has it all: wealth, a beautiful wife, a swanky London flat. But when the creditors move in and his wife moves out, James suddenly finds he's left with nothing. Nothing but words, and even they are starting to slip away. James' father is dying - his last connection to his childhood, his upbringing and the language of his birth, Gaelic. With this link gone, James fears he will simply cease to exist. Forced to confront his past and the conflict of identity within him, James explores the importance of language and how it defines who we are. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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St Kilda | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Festival Theatre | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Edinburgh International 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 | #101287 | |||
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Genre: | musical multimedea | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | 'The Birdmen' of St Kilda: Scaling the sheer cliffs of their rocky home 'the Birdmen' of St Kilda harvested a living from seabirds and their eggs for more than 3,000 years. The decline and depopulation of their society was a slow process, accelerated by contagions from the mainland. By the time the British government evacuated the island in 1930 there were hardly thirty people left - clinging to their unique way of life and furious landscape and roped to their customs and language. Living on the edge: St Kilda is the most westerly of Scottish islands and the last landfall before America. It is the UK's only dual World Heritage Site - for both natural and cultural heritage - and the cliffs rise taller than the Empire State Building. Traditional Gaelic song and contemporary music are performed against a backdrop of vintage and modern film as a cast of actors, singers and acrobats tell the story of the 'Birdmen' of St Kilda. Memerising Multi-media: Two large screens frame the stage and show archive film from 1908 to1930. Interwoven with these highly emotional images is spectacular contemporary film of the place, its story and dramatic aerial cliff-dancers. | |||||
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Tragedy of Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1991, 1993 | ||||
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 | #105297 | |||
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Genre: | Translated and adapted; draft and TS | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Fifth Estate Theatre Company - Acc.11443/119-20 | |||||
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Wolf | ||
| 1st Produced: | Just The Tonic at the Caves, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>> | 05 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Authentic Artist Collective/Kath Burlinson/Escalator East to 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 | #118521 | |||
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Genre: | interactive, physical theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Let us prey. Theatre for the senses exploring wolf/human relationships. Text: Iain Finlay Macleod with performers from David Glass Ensemble/Dreamthinkspeak/Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake'. | |||||
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