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LINDA MCLEAN |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
Linda is a Board Member of the Playwrights Studio Scotland and was a Mentor for the Traverse's Cubed Writers Residency in November 2006.
Plays by Linda McLean
Any Given Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848420939 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109197 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights. This is a big day for Sadie and Bill; their favourite person is coming to visit. They've gone to great lengths to prepare for the occasion. It's an even bigger day for Jackie; and not one she'd anticipated. Should she make the most of it? She doesn't know if she can any more; too many people depend on her. Any Given Day explores our fear of the unknown, and our guilt and responsibility towards ourselves and others. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cold Cuts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 7:84 Theatre Company | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220105 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108588 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy | |||||
Notes: | to mark Amnesty International's 2005 campaign to stop violence against women | |||||
| a brief violent act from its beginning to its end | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Como Agua Para Chocolate | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Theatre Sans Frontieres | |||||
| 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 | #85368 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | From Novel and screenplay by Laura Esquivel | |||||
Synopsis: | magic realist fable about cooking, family and twarted love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dearly Held | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow | - - - | ||||
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 | #23493 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Doch an Doris (a parting drink) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 7:84 Theatre Company | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220105 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108587 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| about the theme of separation written to coincide with the 300th Anniversary of the Act of Union between Scotland and Enfland | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Foreigners | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220105 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108589 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| written in Mexico City in 2004 reflects McLean's experience of the people and the City | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Happy Yet? | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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 | #39179 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau. text by Linda McLean. Adaptated by Ed Woodall and Linda mcLean | |||||
Synopsis: | zesty modern take on four Feydeau farces | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Like Water For Chocolate | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Sans Frontieres | - - - | ||||
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 | #63041 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Olga | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Playwrights in Partnerhip commission | |||||
| 1st Published: | Traverse Publishing, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49689 | |||
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Genre: | Scots/English Version Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from work by Laura Ruohonen | |||||
Synopsis: | about a woman of 85 and a young hoodlum of around 18 who find each other. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Good Beating | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Scotland Plays" Nick hern Books, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23494 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Traverse Feb 1999 as part of Family | |||||
Synopsis: | Two grown up children lock their father in the coal shed. A children's game or adult vendetta? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Price Of A Good Dinner, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Derby | - - - | ||||
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 | #23495 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Re:Union | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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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 | #61628 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Written by Selma Dimitrijevic, Nicola McCartney, Linda McLean and Haresh Sharma. To celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the Act of Union between Scotland and England and the upcoming Scottish Elections, 7:84 has commissioned four writers - Nicola McCartney, Haresh Sharma, Selma Dimitrijevic & Linda McLean - to examine the theme of Separation and Reconciliation. They will use four momentous historical events as a backdrop: Ireland/England 1921; India/Pakistan 1947; Croatia/Serbia 1991; Scotland/England 2007. | |||||
Synopsis: | When should you stay in a partnership and when should you walk away? When is compromise just another word for humiliation? Or are some partnerships worth the struggle? After all, whether it's family, friend or lover, it all needs work. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Reminded Of Beauty | ||
| 1st Produced: | (work in progress) Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>> | 17 Sep 2009 | ||||
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 | #109241 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Things take an unexpected turn for three families living in the heart of the city. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Riddance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23496 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Is murder ever justified? Even in defence of a child? And if you're never caught, are you always in hiding? And though you may feel safe, is it inevitable that there will be a day of Riddance? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shimmer | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49690 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Herald Angel Award | |||||
Synopsis: | No one's day is going to plan. Petal, Missy and Hen are on their way to the island of Iona, looking for a miracle. When their train is halted by floods, they are forced to stay at a B & B by Loch Lomond and contemplate different endings to their adventure. Jim, Guy and Sonny are also at the B & B. Guy is determined to make his own adventure, but Jim and Sonny's experiences make them equally determined to shelter him and stop history repeating. Surrounded by rain, rivers, lochs and floods, three generations of memory and experience ebb and flow through Linda McLean's lyrical new play. Shimmer shows how strange weather and circumstances allow glimpses of others they have loved and lost, and offers them all the tantalising opportunity to dream it better | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spirit's Sunday Drive | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio Manchester | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220105 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108590 | |||
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Genre: | 15 min radio play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | space buggy and lander | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| about the morning after the 21st of january 2004 when the space buggy Spirit goes for a drive on mars and sends back pictures and data. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Strangers, Babies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61544 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | One woman, five men. When Dan married his wife he knew he wasn't settling for a simple life and, even now, he keeps a wary eye on her. Duncan has never been one for easy pleasantries or loose morality. He's dying and it's really testing his patience. His day is made worse by the arrival of his daughter looking for forgiveness. Roy's first foray onto the internet struck pay dirt and tonight he finds himself face to face with a woman who shares his taste in pain. If Denis didn't ever have to meet his sister again it would be too soon but something in her phone call gave him no option. Abel is young and idealistic so it's no surprise that he's become a Child Protection Officer. One mother's reluctance to give him access to her son sets off Abel's alarm bell. May is the woman in their lives. She ties these men together but she's coming undone as a moment in her life is haunting them all. Sometimes chilling, frequently hilarious, strangers, babies is the story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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This Is Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>> | 20 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Impossible Things before Breakfast | |||||
| 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 | #118535 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min reading | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | taps into the quiet everyday confusion people feel via a text adapted from interviews conducted while on a residency in America. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Uncertainty Files, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Sep 2010 | |||||
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 | #119220 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of a Play, a Pie and a Pint | |||||
Synopsis: | When I get really overwhelmed I go to a drugstore and look at the little sample sizes in the travel section and it calms me because I can try anything and not commit to it. In this new play by Linda McLean's only one thing is for sure; nothing. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vile Sinner | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bogota, Columbia | 12 Jul 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220105 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96244 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | voices | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| armed soldiers and police on the street | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What Love Is | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 April 2011 | |||||
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 | #114870 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of A Play, a Pie and a Pint | |||||
Synopsis: | Gene and Jean won't tell you their age. They won't tell you where they live. They've forgotten what's outside but they remember what love is. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Word For Word | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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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 | #23497 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | story of the ties which bind a family together through generations meanders through ideas of oral tradition and language | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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