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ALAN BISSETT (1975 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: A M Heath & Company |
Alan Bissett is from Falkirk and now lives in Glasgow. He is author of the novels Boyracers (Polygon, 2001), The Incredible Adam Spark (Headline, 2005), and the forthcoming Death of a Ladies' Man (Hachette 2009). He was short- or longlisted for the prestigious Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short-Story Competition four years in a row. He is also a former lecturer in Creative Writing at the Universities of Leeds and Glasgow. Alan has recently adapted his novel Adam Spark as a stageplay, and has written a series of monologues, Times When I Bite, which he will be performing himself onstage in the new year and is also in production as a film. April 09 will feature a script for The Arches New Director Award-winner, Sacha Kyle, entitled The Library. He is also a regular performer at Discombobulate, a monthly literature/comedy night which runs at the CCA in Glasgow. Alan writes the occasional academic criticism, as well as an intermittent blog for The Guardian. In 2007 he featured alongside Malcolm Middleton (ex Arab Strap) on the critically-acclaimed music-literature crossover album Ballads of the Book. He is highly in demand as a live performer - in schools, at book festivals, and, increasingly, as a support act for indie bands.
Plays by Alan Bissett
Ching Room, The | ||
| 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 | #95865 | |||
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Genre: | 50 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of ̉ran Mor's groundbreaking lunchtime theatre programme, A Play, A Pie and A Pint | |||||
Synopsis: | When you've got to go, you've got to go. But not if you're Rory, and there's a mysterious stranger in the cubicle who seems to know too much about the secrets you've been hiding. Can Rory escape before the stranger tempts him into acting on them? An extended riff on Zen and the art of drug taking | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Confidant, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre 2, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 15 Mar 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 | #122786 | |||
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Genre: | short adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Gilberto Pinto | |||||
Synopsis: | ̉ran Mor's A Play, A Pie and A Pint spring season at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, presented in association with the National Theatre of Scotland, will feature five plays from South America, adapted by Scottish playwrights. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Library, The | ||
| 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 | #96564 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 9 | |||||
Notes: | by Sacha Kyle. Text for The Library has been created in collaboration with Scottish writer Alan Bissett | |||||
Synopsis: | Containing our desires to be more than what we are. Filing away that which has already taken place. Holding on to instruction to prevent us from losing ourselves. The mind is a library. Working with a cast of nine, Sacha Kyle, invites you to a darkly humorous, multi-sensory experience which explores the stories that exist within all of us. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Moira Monologues, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Feb 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 | #109225 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by Sacha Kyle and Alan Bissett | |||||
Synopsis: | Bisset himself plays a chain-smoking Falkirk cleaning woman confessing all to her best pal Babs. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pinocchio | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, Scotland >>> | 03 Dec 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 | #124260 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A new version of the classic fairytale, adapted by Alan Bissett and Julie Brown and featuring music, song, dance and puppetr | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Times When I Bite | ||
| 1st Produced: | GlenClub, Hallglen, Falkirk | 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 | #96651 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Turbo Folk | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Apr 2010 | |||||
Company: | A Play A Pie and A Pint | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111773 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | dark political comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Cameron, A Scottish rock star is touring an unnamed country in the developing world. Bored one night, he escapes his corporate hotel into the local bar, in an attempt to find the 'soul of the country' and, hopefully, a sound for the next album. With him is a translator, Moka, supplied by the record company, wearying of Cameron's endless need for stimulation. Cameron discovers in the bar not only the exciting, native 'Turbo Folk' music - which he wants to record - but a threatening, taciturn local, Gradd. Attempting jollity, Cameron compliments Gradd on his shirt, only for Gradd to interpret it as flirtation. Moka translates the misunderstanding, and, in order to avoid danger, Cameron buys Gradd a drink. But now he is trapped, helplessly dependent upon Moka to translate with charm enough to save him from this bruiser. Over the next half hour, Gradd unloads his hatred of the West onto an increasingly terrified Cameron, who realises that, though the war in this country may be over, many still nurture dark grievances, waiting for the right time to exploit them. Soon it is Moka's role as 'neutral' translator that is compromised, as Gradd begins to exert a slow pull over his countryman that could have terrible consequences for Cameron. "Turbo Folk" is a tight, three-hander, about cultural misunderstandings, the legacy of war, and, most importantly, language. Power bounces, in flux, between Cameron and Gradd, before Moka realises that - as go-between - he alone can direct the outcome. What characters say is not what the audience reads, in translation, onscreen behind them, a gap of misapprehension which could prove fatal for our flamboyant, and hopelessly out-of-his-depth, hero. | |||||
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 | #128608 | |||
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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 Issue 09 Page 485 | |||||
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