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RONA MUNRO (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Independent Talent Group Limited |
Rona was born in Aberdeen, 07 Sep 1959, and is currently Senior Playwriting Fellow for the Traverse. Credits for the Traverse include: Strawberries in January, Iron, Fugue, Your Turn to Clean the Stair. Other theatre credits include The House of Bernarda Alba (translation for Shared Experience); Snake (Hampstead Theatre); The Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre & Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; Peggy Ramsay Memorial Award Winner); Gilt (Co-Writer), Bold Girls (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award, Plays International Award, Critics Circle and Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award), Saturday Night at The Commodore (7:84); The Way to Go Home (Paines Plough! Royal Court); Piper's Cave (Paines Plough Workshop & Boilerhouse).Film credits include Ladybird Ladybird directed by Ken Loach (FilmFourlParallax Pictures Ltd); Aimee and Jaguar (Senator Film Production). For television, recent credits include Rehab (BBC2); Almost Adult (Channel 4). Rona wrote two of the plays in the latest Stanley Baxter Playhouse series for Catherine Bailey Ltd/BBC Radio 4.
Plays by Rona Munro
Bang And The Whimper, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stage Traffic Theatre Company | 1982 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #25196 | |||
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Genre: | One man Show | |||||
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Basement Flat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Aug 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848420700 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102115 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | part of The World is Too Much, Theatre for Breakfast | |||||
| The Basement Flat features Fiona and Stephen, whose domestic life, if ever it was idyllic, is rapidly shading into a horror-movie nightmare. In a globally warmed london full of lush vegetation, "hot, dirty rain", creeping fungus and feral teenagers, they cower in the rented basement flat of the house they once owned but have had to sell, too frightened even to search for their teenage daughter, who seems to be living somewhere in the jungly garde. | |||||
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Biggest Party In The World | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
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 | #25197 | |||
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Bold Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld | 1990 | ||||
Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "First Run 3", Hern, London, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25198 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | The dramas of everyday life in Belfast are but off-stage events in this stirring play about the lives of three women whose men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities, but where bread must still be bought between explosions. In spite of its chilling theme there are many humorous and heart-warming moments - a play about people, not politics, which offers excellent acting opportunities. Rona Munro received the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for 1991 for Bold Girls. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol X (1990) Page 1343; Theatre Record Vol XI (1991) Page 1076; Theatre Record Vol XV (1995) Page 0310; Theatre Record Vol XIX (1999) Page 1265 | |||||
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Bus, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Scottish Youth Theatre | 1984 | ||||
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 | #25199 | |||
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Genre: | Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Catch A Falling Star! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Howden Park Centre, Edinburgh | 25 Mar 2004 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #54830 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Following the demise in her 50's of the world famous Scottish Rock & Roll singer Chrissie Star, former band member Jerry, doesn't answer to Marjorie, tries to reignite her own career by enlisting the help of Chrissie's older sister Chicken Farmer Helen and Chrissie's eighteen year old daughter TW. Only problem is... Helen and TW have other ideas. . .and none of them can sing! | |||||
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Clucking Good Hen Night, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield | 28 Apr 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 | #140173 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
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Notes: | written Fiona Knowles and Rona Munro | |||||
Synopsis: | Gale force winds, a river at bursting point and the feathers are flying at the Riverside Function Suite! Two Hen Nights! When events take an unexpected turn the three heroines have to fight for survival or nobody's getting married in the morning! Life, love, marriage, mothers and daughters are all swept in to the spotlight in this comedy from the award-winning duo. | |||||
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Dirt Under The Carpet | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough and Oran Mor | |||||
| 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 | #78086 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | In The Dirt Under the Carpet, cleaners Lorraine and Muriel find Mr. B, face down in a pool of his own blood, making a hell of a mess on the mushroom carpeting. Wielding squeegies, our fearless private detectives must find the killer before he finds them in this gritty Scottish thriller. "I thought dirt was what you got in the Sunday papers, I thought dust was a class A drug, I thought I knew what I was in for but I didn't have a clue. . ." | |||||
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Dust And Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
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 | #25200 | |||
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Fugue | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854592484a | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25201 | |||
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Genre: | Ghost story | |||||
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| Concerns a young woman and her alter ego. Tells the story of Kay, found in a state of shock wandering a hillside wearing only a dressing gown. A young psychiatrist tries to piece together Kay's jumbled memories, only to find unsettling parallels with her own life. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol III (1983) Page 0348; Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 1278 | |||||
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Fur Coat and Magic Knickers | ||
| 1st Produced: | MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling | 02 Apr 2009 | ||||
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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 | #140174 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | The clock is ticking... Maggie is a compulsive shopper with more cards than Hallmark. She just has to buy buy BUY! How far will she go to satisfy her obsession? Will Personal Shopper Jenny cope? Shes at breaking point anyway and she might just be forced to suffocate Maggie, with a rather fetching 100% cashmere fuchsia pink v-neck... and matching belt. But then she still has Second Hand Rose to contend with. Roses last new fashion buy was a set of thermals in 1994... Roses daughter is getting married and shes been forbidden to go anywhere near a Charity Shop. Alarm bells ring, but which one of our retail victims is about to crash the Emergency Exit? | |||||
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Ghost Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
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 | #25202 | |||
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Genre: | Community drama | |||||
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Gilt | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley | 02 Oct 2003 | ||||
Company: | 7:84 | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597809 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49692 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | collaboration between Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro and Isabel Wright | |||||
| Gilt is the result of an innovative and possibly unique collaboration. Three of Scotland's best writers have worked together on the one play, creating seven characters whose worlds collide and interweave to create a modern mosiac about money and love. Each of the characters is traying to work out the best currency in which to conduct their dealings with the outside world. They are all guilty victims of love or money or both. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Acc.12911/127; Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 1470 | |||||
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Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 06 May 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 | #114060 | |||
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Genre: | guerilla theatre | |||||
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Notes: | written by David Greig, Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's the night before the election and Gordon Brown can't sleep. Tomorrow he will go before the public to finally claim victory or accept defeat. In a fitful night of dreams and memories he casts his mind across a political career that spans two decades at the top. Does he deserve to win? What's at stake if he loses? But most important, what is there left to say? Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre will be a "freewheeling exploration of contemporary politics from inside the fractured mind of a Prime Minister on verge of an electoral breakdown." The script will be written during election week to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. The play will then be performed as staged readings on 6 May itself. Eight Scottish playwrights will work together to produce the finished play which will be directed by one of the playwrights, David Greig. Joining Greig will be Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. Speaking about the project, Traverse Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill, said, "Scottish theatre has a tradition of responding through theatre to events in the political world. Gordon Brown himself was a Board member of the famous political theatre company 7:84 which created, amongst others, the masterpiece The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. I've always wanted the Traverse to sit within the immediate cultural and political life of the nation. All theatre is political in that it is about and affects us, the way we live our lives, our position in society and the world." The performances will take place at the Traverse at lunchtime on election day, and again on election night, where the Traverse Bar Cafe will screen the election results throughout. | |||||
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Haunted | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bellshill Cultural Centre, Bellshill | 19 Mar 1999 | ||||
Company: | Misfits | |||||
| 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 | #25203 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Annie and Kate are inseparable..wild and wacky they can't get a flat, a decent job or a man between them, but they have got each other. | |||||
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Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | 48 Logie Place (Aberdeen), Scotland | 21 Feb 2006 | ||||
Company: | Shared Ex | |||||
| 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 | #126135 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 15 | ||
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House Of Bernarda Alba , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Oxford | 20 Apr 1999 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre Of Scotland, Aberdeen International Youth Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854594594 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25204 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 9 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
| When Bernarda Alba's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughers to sew and be silent. "There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house." But not even the tyranny of Bernarda's repressive rule can cool the passion and desire that smoulder darkly within the household. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XIX (1999) Page 0624; Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 1010 | |||||
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I Spy Mrs Peery | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ramshorn Theatre - Glasgow | 1995 | ||||
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 | #140182 | |||
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Genre: | play | |||||
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Indian Boy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Cube, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, EUR >>> | 07 Nov 2006 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854599735 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58469 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Written in response to A Midsummer Night's Dream, [Rono Munro]'s The Indian Boy is set in an ancient forest. | |||||
| A play about the discovery of a 'wild child', examining our mythic struggles with the wilderness inside ourselves. A 'wild child' is found in the last clump of woodland left on a building development. The builder, Peter, wants him out of the way. The psychologist, Julius, wants to protect him. His wife, June, wants to understand him and all the time something even wilder seems intent on escaping from the forest. The Indian Boy was written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and was inspired by the 'little changeling boy' who is the source of Oberon and Titania's quarrel in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. | |||||
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Iron | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Jul 2002 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25205 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Josie is visiting her mother Fay for the first time in 15 years. She's never walked into a prison before. Fay is serving life for the murder of her husband, Josie's father. Iron is an intense psychological drama in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them. But between them lies the fact of murder. A murder Josie cannot remember and Fay has always tried to forget. Uncovering the memories they share is more dangerous than either of them can imagine. | |||||
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Last Witch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Aug 2009 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420724 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101288 | |||
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| Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer, a woman's apparent ability to manipulate the power of land and sea stirs suspicion. Janet Horne can cure beasts, call the wind and charm fish out of the sea. Or can she? As her refusal to refute their claims of sorcery incenses the local community, her magnetic allure continues to captivate and destroy. The Last Witch is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland. She was sentenced to death by burning in her home town, accused by friends and neighbours who believed she had made a pact with the devil. Rona Munro is one of Scotland's leading playwrights and The Last Witch has been specially commissioned by the Festival. Munro explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart, and vividly illustrates the destructive potential of fear in a small village. | |||||
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Let's Play Murder | ||
| 1st Produced: | MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling | Sep 1996 | ||||
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 | #140175 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
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Notes: | written Fiona Knowles and Rona Munro | |||||
Synopsis: | Hilarious and loving story of three women, a small girl and several motives for murder ... single parents, the Child Support Agency, wives, mistresses, small town crooks and a child from hell & | |||||
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Little Eagles | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 16 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421462 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99124 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling (very large cast possible) | |||||
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| Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin's first orbit around the Earth, Little Eagles tells the fascinating and little-known story of Sergei Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the Soviet space programme. Under Korolyov's leadership the 'little eagles' of the USSR beat the Americans in the early stages of the space race, achieving a series of firsts, including the first human in space. Rona Munro's gripping play illuminates the life and work of a brilliant engineer who struggled to meet the military demands of his ruthless political masters, whilst devoting as much time as possible to his real passion, exploring outer space. | |||||
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Long Story Short | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1989 | ||||
Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #82933 | |||
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Notes: | Written by Donald Campbell, James Graham, Tom Leonard, Aonghas Macneacoil, Ann-Marie Di Mambro, Gureet Mattu, Rona Munro, Ricky Ross and Ann Samuel. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Long Time Dead | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Oct 2006 | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #58322 | |||
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| A gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers. Grizzly, Dog and Gnome live to climb mountains. They're good at it. They're not looking for death. They love what they do and they do it to the limit. But they're climbing up to places where death is only one mistake away. Suffused with black humour, Long Time Dead is an expedition into ghosts frozen in time, immediate bonds of camaraderie and horizons yet to be discovered. | |||||
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Love and Money | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline | 21 Jun 2001 | ||||
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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 | #140176 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A funny and heart-warming fairy story for grown-ups, especially women! Susie is a middle-aged divorcee fed up with life. Business is bad, her daughter's deserted here and her husband's run off with the lollipop lady. In the best fairy story tradition, a mysterious stranger gives her three wishes, but as with all the best fairy stories, you have to be careful what you wish for, because it might just come true! | |||||
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Maiden Stone, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 Apr 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25206 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Scottish historical play which won the Peggy Ramsay Award | |||||
| A wild, rumbustious mix of and fable, birth and death, extra hardship and bitter cold. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XV (1995) Page 0534; Theatre Record Vol XVII (1997) Page 0570 | |||||
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Mary Barton | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Sep 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57106 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | from the novel Mary Barton by Elizabeth Barton (1848) | |||||
| Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England. Manchester in the 1840s. By day, Mary Barton works in a dress shop making gowns for the daughters of the newly moneyed mill owners. By night, Mary aspires to join their class. As she strives to better herself, murder, intrigue and romance take over her life and the lives of those she loves. Fast-paced, epic and exciting, Mary Barton presents a panorama of Manchester life from the mill owners' new prosperity to the thousands of ordinary people living and dying in their factories. | |||||
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Misfits - Love and Money, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bellshill Cultural Centre, Bellshill | 18 May 2001 | ||||
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 | #140177 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Wish on a moon, I dare you! It's midnight, Susie MacGregor is all alone chopping onions in the Blue Moon Cafe and wishing for a better life. Business is bad, her daughter's deserted her, her husband ran off with the lollipop lady. She's nothing but wishes to keep her warm. Then out of nowhere something happens that will change her life forever! Imagine if every time you said 'I wish' it came true!! What you wish for Love, Money a second chance? Think...carefully. . . | |||||
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Off The Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1988 | ||||
Company: | Red Ladder Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #25207 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Comparing rural and urban life | |||||
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Pandas | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Apr 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421967 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123424 | |||
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Genre: | romantic-comedy-thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| A romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives. Lin Han and Jie Hui have exchanged 536 emails and 72 jpegs, though they've only just met. She's sure he's the man she could fall in love with, if only he'd do it first. But Jie Hui's a little distracted. When his business partner gets shot, things start to get very complicated especially when he realises his heart is broken. Meanwhile, Madeleine finds herself falling for James, the most attractive man she's met in years. And the feeling seems to be mutual. It's just a pity he's the policeman questioning her about the shooting of her ex-boyfriend. . . | |||||
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Piper's Cave | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly Theatre, London | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.5" Methuen, London, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25208 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | landscape and character fuse in the story of a woman's metamorphosis. Set in a remote Scottish coastline we look at 24 hours during which two people struggle for survival and learn about themselves and the place of violence. | |||||
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Salesman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stage Traffic Theatre Company | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25209 | |||
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Synopsis: | Daisy and her husband have a perfect marriage. After five years of bliss they are still completely unfaithful. It wasn't easy at first but fidelity can be overcome by the practice of self-control | |||||
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Saturday At The Commodore | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle Of Skye | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Scot-Free", Hern, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25210 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of Long Stroy Short | |||||
| a very subtle tale of lesbianism so tactfully dealt with that the majority of the audience missed the point | |||||
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Scotland Matters | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1992 | ||||
Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #82934 | |||
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Notes: | written by John Binnie, Iain Heggie, Liz Lochead, Ann-Marie Di Mambro, Gurmeet Mattu, Rona Munro and Jimmy Reid | |||||
Synopsis: | An exploration of life in Scotland; class and culture, war and love, sex, politics and football. | |||||
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Secrets and Lies and DIY! | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Maltings, Berwick-on-Tweed | 15 Apr 2006 | ||||
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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 | #140178 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Pat has finally snapped! Her husband started to put a new kitchen sink in years ago and she's had it with washing up on the loo. Downstairs neighbour 72-year old Mary is caught between Barley White and Coffee Cream, but what is her obsession with Acrylic Matt and Gloss? Single mum Katerina thinks her job as a decorator, is her passport to independence. A DIY disaster brings together three very different women and unearths more than dry rot under the floorboards! | |||||
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Sex and Chocolate | ||
| 1st Produced: | MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling | 28 Apr 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 | #140179 | |||
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Genre: | comedy thrille | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A comedy thriller about life, love, mobsters and Maltesers! Jan has just turned 50, its a holiday weekend and she is alone. Faced with defrosting the fridge she decides to go on an adventure! | |||||
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Snake | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Mar 1999 | |||||
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 | #25211 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of A Small Drop of Ink | |||||
Synopsis: | A play in four distinct sections following the experiences of five local people whose lives are connected. | |||||
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Stick Granny On The Roofrack | ||
| 1st Produced: | Perth Theatre, Perth | 16 Apr 2002 | ||||
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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 | #25212 | |||
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Synopsis: | The good news. . . 'Holiday of a Lifetime', Marie won it on a scratch card. The bad news. . . 'for all the family'! The family, Katy, a teenager with attitude, Graham, once the love of Marie's life, now 15 years past his sell by date, and. . . his Mum! Take one everyday family, heat to 36 degrees, leave in hired car to cook, then stand back! | |||||
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Strawberries in January | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Aug 2006 | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #55924 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Evelyne de la Cheneliere, from a literal translation by Christopher Campbell | |||||
| Do you ever wish love could be more like the movies? Francois does. A cafe bar tender - frustrated screenwriter, he uses every event in his life as inspiration. He casts Sophie, his ex-flatmate-turned-lover-turned-friend, opposite Robert - a cafe regular and university professor. Outside the city, Sophie's childhood friend Lea, runs a B & B. She's drowning in "too much fresh air and boredom". A surprising, passionate encounter provokes her to seek out Sophie for a reunion. Their stories colllide and interweave with intriguing serendipity. Strawberries in January is a biting, heart warming comedy about four romantically challenged singletons who stumble through contemporary Montreal in search for love. Originally written in Quebec French, the play won the Masque Award for Best Original Script. | |||||
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Touchwood | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guizer Theatre Company | 1984 | ||||
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 | #25213 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
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Walking on the Roof | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld | 27 Jun 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 | #140180 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written Fiona Knowles and Rona Munro | |||||
Synopsis: | Nail-biting drama about a newcomer with secretsl | |||||
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Watching Waiters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Offstage Theatre | 1985 | ||||
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 | #25214 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adapted from radio play | |||||
Synopsis: | a woman escaping from depression in bedsit land | |||||
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Watership Down | ||
| 1st Produced: | Poole: Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), 21 Kingland Road, Poole BH15 1UG >>> | 03 Oct 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 | #58945 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation TYA | |||||
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Notes: | adapted from book by Richard Adams | |||||
Synopsis: | Join a band of rebel rabbits for the ultimate adventure! When Fiver senses danger, a small band of rabbits make a hurried escape in search of safety - a high place, where they can spot enemies for miles around. They must stick together, be quick and be cunning. But the real threat to their future is greater than a thousand enemies, and they will risk their lives confronting the terrifying General Woundwort to overcome it! | |||||
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Way To Go Home, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Upstairs, London | 02 Dec 1987 | ||||
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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 | #25215 | |||
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Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 05 May 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 | #128617 | |||
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Genre: | election specia | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Peter Arnott, Alan Bissett, David Greig, David Ireland, Rona Munro, Morna Pearson, Alan Wilkins | |||||
Synopsis: | It's election night in the Hotel Caledonia, not that anybody cares. There are two weddings on and one's descending into a fistfight. The bar's littered with exhausted politicians who can't bring themselves to watch the count, the groom's trying to decide which bridesmaid to chat up on the principle of the single transferable vote, and Mr and Mrs Scotland's attempt at a dirty weekend is descending into divorce. At the centre of it all, Svetlana - the Lithuanian receptionist - is trying to decide whether she should stay or go. Can Gavin - the assistant manager with a crush on her the size of a small Baltic Republic - persuade her that Scotland's got a future? Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia will be written in the two days prior to May 5th to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. It will be performed script in hand on the day of the election itself. Some of Scotland's most exciting writers will conjure up a cast of dreamers, ranters, visionaries and street preachers all trying to make sense of a country which just can't seem to make up its mind what it wants. Expect comedy, satire and probably a fair degree of bitterness and rage. | |||||
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Winners | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Red Ladder Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #25216 | |||
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Synopsis: | Young women and gender issues | |||||
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Women Behaving Madly | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Maltings, Berwick-on-Tweed | 08 May 2010 | ||||
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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 | #140181 | |||
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Synopsis: | Ever felt mad enough to kill someone? The queue jumper, the ex who made you feel small and shabby, the council official who cuts your services then wont take your calls, the people who never listen to a word you say? Joyce, a carer, doesn't give in to those feelings, even when provoked by mad old irritating bats like Bella. Her client, Rita, doesn't either, she hasn't a bad bone in her body. But Bella does... surely a frail little old lady doesn't have it in her to be a killer? Dont dig up the shrubbery! Caring and compost in this topical and hilarious one-woman comedy from the award winning duo who brought you Women on the Verge of a T-Junction, Fur Coat & Magic Knickers and more: | |||||
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Women On The Verge Of A T Junction | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Alnwick | 30 May 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 | #54831 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Fame, friendship and family come under the spotlight. Three women from three backgrounds and three generations who collide at a T Junction. Their lives become as entangled as their bumpers in a comic tour de force. | |||||
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Your Turn To Clean The Stair | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh | 13 Sep 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25217 | |||
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| About the tensions among the residents in a Edinburgh tenement. Your Turn to Clean the Stair starts as a comedic slice of life examination of the funny and dramatic tensions among of residents in a tenement block. It develops nicely into a tense whodunnit when a woman thinks she has witnessed a murder. Or has she? | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XII (1992) Page 0429; Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 1251 | |||||
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