ALASDAIR GRAY (1934 - )
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by Alasdair Gray
Dialogue |
| 1st Produced: | Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Scottish Theatre Press | 1971 | ||
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| Genre: | Short Sexual Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Fall Of Kelvin Walker, The |
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow Art School Drama Society | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | http://www.alasdairgray.co.uk/plays/kelvin_play002.htm | - | ||
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| Genre: | Fable of the Sixties | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Goodbye Jimmy |
| 1st Produced: | Oran Mor leisure centre, Glasgow | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Play, Pie and Pint Series | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Homeward Bound |
| 1st Produced: | Pool Lunch Hour Theatre, Edinburgh | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Bloomsbury in 'Ten Tales Tall and True' | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | Trio for Female Chauvanists | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Lanark |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1995 | ||
| Company: | TAG Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: based on Alasdair Gray's book | ||||
Synopsis: Lanark is about love, longing and loneliness; art, madness, freedom and God. The story unravels the destinies of its twin heroes:Lanark - at war with the uncaring politics of his strange future-world; and Duncan Thaw - at war with himself in post-war Scotland | ||||
Loss of the Golden Silence |
| 1st Produced: | Pool Lunch Hour Theatre, Edinburgh | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Short story version published by Bloomsbury under the same title in Grays collection Tell Tales Tall and True | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | Sexual Duet | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Mavis Belfrage |
| 1st Produced: | at a conference in Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. | 1975 | ||
| Company: | Scottish Society of Playwrights | |||
| 1st Published: | Bloomsbury as Mavis Belfrage with 5 shorter tales. | 1996 | ||
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| Genre: | Romance of the Sixties | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
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McGrotty and Ludmilla |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | as novel by Dog and Bone, Glasgow | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | Political Pantomime or the Modern Aladdin | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: A Political Pantomime of the Thatcher Era | ||||
Pie of Damocles |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Review | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written in collaboration with Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard and James kelman | ||||
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Sam Lang and Miss Watson |
| 1st Produced: | Rutherglen Repertory Company | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Revised as fifth chapter of Something Leather, a novel published by Jonathan Cape | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | Sexual Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Tickly Mince |
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance, Edinburgh | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Review | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written in collaboration with Liz Lochhead and Tom Leonard | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Working Legs |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | Birds Of Paradise Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Dog and Bone Press, Glasgow | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | Play for People Without Them | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: music by David Young | ||||
Synopsis: following an accident disabled man finds he can walk, a drawback in a society geared to its disabled majority, he is denied work and social contact | ||||