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PETER ARNOTT (1962 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Peter Arnott was born in Glasgow in 1962. Since his debut as a professional playwright with The Boxer Benny Lynch (Mayfest, Glasgow) and White Rose and El/as Sawney at the Traverse (all in 1 985) he has written plays and songs (with Craig Armstrong), cabaret (with Peter Mullan) as well as the occasional film and TV script. He worked extensively with Wildcat Theatre Company, writing, again with Peter Mullan, the Poll Tax musical Harmony Row among others. His work has often had an historical fqcus, including Muir and The Wire Garden along with comedies like Losing Alec and his versions of modern European classics like Durrenmatt's The Visit and Brecht's Punt/la. More recently, his trilogy of classic adaptations for the Citizens' Theatre's multinational community company have had great acclaim. His play The Breathing House won the TMA Award for best new British play of 2003. His most recent play Cyprus was specially commissioned for Mull Theatre Company and transferred to the Traflagar Studios in London in December 2005 and tours in Scotland in 2007. His plays have also appeared in Cork, New York, Melbourne and Moscow.
Plays by Peter Arnott
Boxer Benny Lynch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Centre, Glasgow | 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 | #1117 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Glasgow boxer's rise and fall | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Breathing House, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | fairplay-breathing-house | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1118 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | winner TMA best new play award | |||||
| set in the 1870;s the play is a mysterious and atmospheric Gothic tale, dealing with sex, death and public health. "As brothels and old-time religion nestle up in the back streets, auld reekie's well-heeled self image is chillingly blighted by death and disease. Obvious gothic antecedents here are Stevenson and Conan Doyle, but there are nods too at David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick. In its brutal depiction of how sexual plague decimates societies great and small, however, it shows that even Trainspotting's darker roots go way back." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Century's End | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
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 | #1119 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Meeting of Freud and Mahler | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Christmas Carol | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Wildcat | |||||
| 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 | #1120 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Charles Dickens | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Citizen Y | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #95861 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A strange night journey into the secrets of the city, identity and beyond. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Court Of Miracles, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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 | #1121 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast 15 - 19 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Cultural diversity show based on Notre Dame De Paris | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cyprus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mull Little Theatre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #264 | |||
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Genre: | Contemporary Thriller Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | "Arnott's fascinating play questions the morality of Britain's spies and the spooky underworld of intelligence agents. Ever since the Iraq war, David Kelly's suicide and that deceptive dossier about weapons of mass destruction, spies and their masters have incurred suspicion about their motives and honesty. Cyprus fuels these anxieties by suggesting that the intelligence services' secret, unaccountable and duplicitous procedures may incite, not diminish, terrorism. The dramatic noose tightens thrillingly as the tables turn to devastating effect, and family ties are frailer than loyalty to the old ministerial firm." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death Of Elias Sawney, The | ||
| 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 | #1122 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | comic history of death | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Delirious | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tour | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Wildcat 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 | #1123 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By David Anderson, David Maclennan, Peter Arnott | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Full Of Noises | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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 | #1124 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast 15 - 19 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Cultural Diversity adaptation of the Tempest | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Genesis Rock, the | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oran Mor | 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 | #51802 | |||
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Genre: | Short Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Oran Mor 2004: a fundamentalist US Astronaut meets a satanic CIA man on a quest to find Noah's Ark in Turkey. True story | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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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 | #114033 | |||
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Genre: | guerilla theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harmony Row | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Wildcat | |||||
| 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 | #1125 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Musical on the Poll tax | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House of Murders | ||
| 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 | #400 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Culturally diverse cast of 17 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Adaptation of Oresteia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hyde | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dundee Rep | 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 | #1126 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from work by R.L. Stevenson | |||||
Synopsis: | This look at the Jekyll and Hyde tale asks what if Hyde survives? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ice Flow, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1992 | ||||
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 | #102996 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.11524/46 (2 drafts) | |||||
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Infamous Brothers Davenport | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Jan 2012 | |||||
Company: | Vox Motus | |||||
| 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 | #127632 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Peter Arnott, conceived, directed and designed by Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds. | |||||
Synopsis: | It is 1862 and the gaslights are flickering. . .Welcome to an evening of magic and illusion with the infamous brothers, Willie and Ira Davenport. Inspired by the true story of the Davenport Brothers, this amazing play promises to be a true theatrical treat. Join us to witness the wonder and mystery of the Davenports' dramatic demonstrations. In their presence, furniture dances, bodies levitate and the voices of the dead resonate through the theatre. Discover the dark undercurrent to their Victorian world as the showmanship and drama of the brothers' onstage presence contrasts with their cruel and curious childhood. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inquisitor, The | ||
| 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 | #96154 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on an episode in "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky | |||||
Synopsis: | A man is sent to interrogate a terrorist suspect | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Rain, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paisley Arts Centre/tour | 2000 | ||||
Company: | 7:84 | |||||
| 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 | #1127 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A pub full of the lost on a wet Glasgow Thursday night | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Losing Alec | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | fairplay-losing-alec | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1128 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| This fine, subtle play allows us to see those things not appreciated by the luckless characters, and perhaps to understand and forgive. The work uses a fantasy situation to dissect reality in a way realism never could, offering a dissection of the inadaquacy if the emotional vocabulary in use in Scotland and voicing a protest against those responsible for that situation. And if it is set in Scotland its resonances can be felt far beyond. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Measure For Measure | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dundee Rep | 2002 | ||||
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 | #1129 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Muir | ||
| 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 | #1130 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | story of Scots lawyer transported at time of French Revolution | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Puntilla And His Man Matti | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dundee Rep | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Gasgow Citizens | |||||
| 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 | #1131 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht, | |||||
Synopsis: | translation into Scots of Brecht's comedy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Salvation | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
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 | #1132 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Short History of the Death of Elias Sawney, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #102997 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10530/33 | |||||
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Silver Darlings, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen | 28 Aug 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 | #103386 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted from Neil Gunn's The Silver Darlings | |||||
Synopsis: | An epic adventure story, and one of the best loved Scottish novels of the 20th Century. Set in the early days of the herring fisheries around the Scottish coast, it combines human emotion with stormy dangerous seas in the story of a boy growing to manhood, of a man and woman finding love in the face of tragedy, and of a community recovering from the Highland Clearances to forge a new way of life from the forbidding, unpredictable ocean. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Swindle And Death | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Mull 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 | #86356 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The central conceit is that a Scottish Arts Council spy posing as an actress has infiltrated the theatre company of Messers Swindle and Death (entertaining Scotland since 1707). | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Visit, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dundee Rep | 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 | #49315 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Friedrich Durrenmatt, adap. Maurice Valancy, tr. Peter Arnott | |||||
Synopsis: | Relocates the action from a post-war Swiss backwater to the deserted airport of a bankrupt town somewhere in 21st century Scotland to allow a warts-and-all view of people in power | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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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 | #128607 | |||
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Genre: | election specia | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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 Scotlands 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 485 | |||||
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White Rose | ||
| 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 | #1133 | |||
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Genre: | Biographical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about the Russian pilot-heroine Lily Litvak | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wire Garden, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Corcadorca Festival | 2002 | ||||
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 | #1134 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Account of the death of Stalin's son in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in 1943. Not as grim as it sounds | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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