DAVID GREIG
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by David Greig
8000m |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: about a six person Scottish expedition to the Hima;ayan peak of Lhotse | ||||
Airport |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Translations Javier Sanchez | ||||
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American Pilot, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | soldiers | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: America's involvement in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. A badly injured pilot drops out of the sky and into a village where the villagers are engaged in a guerrilla struggle to preserve their way of life from a central government that's supported by America. | ||||
Architect, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1996 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Leo Black was an architect of his time, a builder of buildings, an idealistic designer, but these days he has an executive role in designing car parks. Has he really sunk so low? His family are falling apart and his buildings are falling down, leaving Leo struggling with the grubby reality of his once magnificent visions. | ||||
Bacchae |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides. from a literal translation by Ian Ruffell | ||||
Synopsis: In the wildest of all Greek tragedies, Dionysus returns home with his cult of female followers to exact revenge for his mother's death. Drawing the townswomen under his hypnotic spell, he unleashes the full force of female sexuality on the city. | ||||
Being Norwegian |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Paines Plough and Oran Mor | |||
| 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: | 45 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: In Being Norweigan, Sean, just out of prison, invites Lisa back to his flat for a drink. Lisa says she's Norwegian. She feels Sean must be Norwegian too. In this dark, funny encounter two outsiders reach out to each other across the deep fjords of the heart. "In Norway we're used to darkness in people's heads. We even prefer it. Because if there is no darkness, then what in heaven's name are you thinking about? We Norwegians think people who are happy are perhaps just a little bit above themselves, don't you?" | ||||
Caledonia Dreaming |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A moving, funny and fantastical look at politics and society at a turning point in history. | ||||
Caligula |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2003 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Albert Camus | ||||
Synopsis: In this passionate, poetic and darkly comic drama, a charismatic leader is given absolute freedom to challenge social convention in pursuit of personal obsession. Following the death of his beloved sister, Emperor Caligula deserts the Roman Assembly for three days and three nights. He returns with a single objective: to understand the meaning of life. | ||||
Candide 2000 |
| 1st Produced: | Old Fruitmarket,Glasgow | 2000 | ||
| Company: | Suspect Culture | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Casanova |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | Suspect Culture | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | Devised | Piece | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: By Graham Eatough, David Greig And Nick Powell | ||||
Synopsis: Suspect Culture's Casanova follows the travels of an internationally renowned artist who is curating the final exhibition of his illustrious career: an account of his life as the world's greatest lover. As the exhibition nears completion and the opening in his home town approaches, a cuckolded husband's plan to avenge the loss of his wife also draws to a close. Raising questions about love, honesty and life lived in the pursuit of pleasure, Casanova is an uncompromising examination of contemporary sex and morality. | ||||
Cosmonaut's Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a Russian erotic dancer; a French UFO researcher and an Edinburgh speech therapist in search of her missing husband are brought together through an extraordinary thread of connections, which bring us into contact with both the intimate and the epic. | ||||
Creditors |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled. Regarded as Strindbergs most mature work, Creditors is a darkly comic tale of obsession, honour and revenge. | ||||
Damascus |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Suspect Culture | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: winner Scotsman Fringe First Award | ||||
Synopsis: A brief encounter in a Syrian hotel finds a Scotsman grappling with language and love, meanings and misunderstandings. Welcome to Damascus. The oldest continuously inhabited city on earth, a jewel of the Arab world and the crossroads of the Middle East. Paul is here to sell English language textbooks. It s Valentine's Day and he d rather be at home with his wife. Paul begins negotiations with his Syrian contact, Muna. Can he seal the deal? At first, misunderstandings multiply - then, their presumptions about one another fall away and new possibilities emerge. Meanwhile Zacharia, the hotel porter, fervently hopes that Paul has brought some Scottish girls with him and all the while, in the background, Elena, the Ukrainian cocktail pianist, tinkles away. . .In Damascus, a city of transformations, Paul grapples with language and love, meanings and misconceptions. And as his flight home is delayed by a bomb at Beirut Airport, he begins to wonder - will he ever leave? | ||||
Danny 306 + Me (4 Ever) |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | co-production with Birmingham Rep | |||
| 1st Published: | Traverse Publishing | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Dr Korczak's Example |
| 1st Produced: | Shawlands Academy & Schools Tour | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Tag Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Capercaillie Books | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: about the radical teacher and Holocaust victim Janusz Korczak's declaration of Children's Rights | ||||
Europe |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1996 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: Europe is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing | ||||
Futurology - A Global Revue |
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow, SECC / touring | 2007 | ||
| Company: | National Theatre of Scotland, Suspect Culture and the Brighton Festival | |||
| 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: | - | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 14 performers | |||
Notes: script devised David Greig and Dan Rebellato | ||||
Synopsis: lt is the 14th UN Conference of the Future, and the subject is climate change. The delegates have gathered at their Perspex desks to hammer out a Kyoto-style agreement. but they seem more interested in national rivalries, free-market enterprise and post-conference sex than saving the planet. Only the poor woman from a sinking Pacific island 465 miles south of Fiji has any sense of urgency, and she is as powerless as the rioting mob on the streets outside the meeting room. What turns a white-collar satire into extraordinary' theatre is the repeated segues into flamboyant cabaret in Graham Eatough's production for Suspect Culture and the National Theatre of Scotland. When the delegates aren't pontificating behind laptops. they are stepping out into tangos, torch songs or gymnastic routines. When they can't settle on a joint manifesto, they break into a rousing sing-along worthy of Chitty Chilly Bang Bang. The procrastination continues while Rome burns, the company presenting a heightened vision of a species running headless into the unknown. uncertain whether to celebrate humanity's gift for artistry and spectacle, or to put an end to mankind for fear of a frightening future. The apocalyptic conclusion shows our egotistical, vainglorious and confused actions for the pathetic gestures they are, though the play's political ambivalence adds more to our eco--confusion than it clarifies. - Mark Fisher, Guardian | ||||
Gobbo |
| 1st Produced: | N Edinburgh Arts Ctr / touring | 2006 | ||
| Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: devised and created by David Greig and Wils Wilson. From an original story by David Greig | ||||
Synopsis: a perfect - and perfectly silly - modern day fairytale about a goblin with a dislike of adventures who gets drawn into a series of life-and-death escapades on the islands of Skye and Rum. Performed like a children's party, it features farting, grape throwing, a raffle and daft songs. Mark Fisher, Guardian | ||||
Greeks, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| 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: | Tragedies | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Translated By David Greig, Tom McGrath, Liz Lochhead | ||||
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Herges Adventures Of Tintin |
| 1st Produced: | Barbican, London | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Young Vic for BITE:05 | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: adaptation by Rufus Norris and David Greig from Tintin in Tibet by Georges Remi (Hergé) | ||||
Synopsis: Tears are shed and oriental mysticism abounds, in an adventure that creator Herge described as a "song dedicated to friendship" Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard | ||||
Local |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | Suspect Culture, Local Group, Castlemilk | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Maggie And The Cat, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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: | Short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Mainstream |
| 1st Produced: | McRobert, Stirling | 1999 | ||
| Company: | Suspect Culture | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Meeting, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1999 | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Midsummer |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| 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 with Songs | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre | ||||
Synopsis: It's Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. Its raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. He's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld and she's a high powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's out of his league and he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Ever. Ever. Which is why they do. Midsummer is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery. | ||||
Oedipus The Visionary |
| 1st Produced: | Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow | 2000 | ||
| Company: | Theatre Babel | |||
| 1st Published: | Capercaillie Books | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Sophocles. Part of "The Greeks" | ||||
Synopsis: "David Greig's fine adaptation produces a clarity of narrative and a simple, resonant language that renders the epic accessible." Robert Thompson, Herald | ||||
One Way Street |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Scotland Plays" Nick Hern Books, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Devised | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Flannery tells his life story in the form of a guide to Berlin | ||||
Outlying Islands |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Fringe First, Herald Angel | ||||
Synopsis: a glimpse of an innocence, a way of seeing and a way of being young that is about to be destroyed forever. | ||||
Petra |
| 1st Produced: | toured | 1996 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Pyrenees |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A man is found lying in the snow at the foot of the Pyrenees. He remembers nothing. He believes he is British. A young woman from the British Consulate is dispatched to confirm his nationality and to try to piece together his identity. When Vivienne, a middle aged woman from Edinburgh arrives, she presents him with a history he doesn't recognise. Is he really who she says he is? As the snow melts on the mountains the man must decide which reality he will enter - Anna's or Vivienne's? Who is he really? | ||||
San Diego |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | Tron Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2003 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A series of connecting and diverging stories are merged into a single compelling narrative. A surreal, darkly comic journey of discovery through the American dream | ||||
Savage Reminiscence |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Speculator, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1999 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Stalinland |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| 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 | |||
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