|
|
DAVID LEDDY |
|
Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
Please send me a biography and information about this Playwright
xxx doollee
Plays by David Leddy |
Home Hindrance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow, David Leddy's flat | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Vanishing Point | |||||
| 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 | #67606 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Home Hindrance is new site-specific theatre piece and web-based film performed in a flat at the top of a Glasgow tower block. Only six people will be allowed in the audience each night, making for an intimate and intense night out as they are led through the flat, finding a different character in each room. This emotionally compelling piece weaves together such diverse themes as chronic sickness, soft porn magazines, weird Japanese food and Abba's 'SOS'. In Home Hindrance, life at the top of a Glasgow tower block becomes melded with life on board the international space station, which can be seen on clear nights from the bedroom window. The play takes a semi-autobiographical look at the writer's own experience of living with a chronically sick partner for the last five years. At the same time, the piece investigates the degree to which any story is 'based on truth' and the ethics of telling stories about the lives of others. Oh, it's a love story too. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
In The Shade | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #51939 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The 'black' music sound, so often referred to as 'urban' is one imitated by whiter than white artists in various genres. And so David Leddy, in a range of cross-dressing attire, brings us a larger than life embodiment of this phenomenon in the form of soul diva LaToya Levine. - Meg Watson, The List. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
On The Edge | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #20385 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Doctor finds himself playing right-hand man to the enigmatic Inspector as they investigate the frightful murder of the Doctor's dear lady wife. The suspects include a stuffy major and a mannish spinster, a blackmailing butler and a fiendish foreigner. So many cliches and so little time. On The Edge reworks the whodunnit in a way that would have Miss Marple turning in her grave. David Leddy brings his eccentric, energetic stage persona and oddball wit to this mischievous one-man pastiche that takes the Cluedo rulebook and buries it six-feet under. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Pater Noster | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Arches festival | |||||
| 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 | #84287 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Reekie | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #56104 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Site Specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Unique avant-garde walking tour on MP3 player and map. Experience Edinburgh's high times and low lives. Sonic art with sex, tourism and Routemaster buses. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Sub Rosa | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Jan 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1906220273 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93858 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | 80 min Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A gothic Victorian promenade show through the secret backstage spaces of the Citizens Theatre. Out of the shadows comes a motley crew of sopranos, hoofers, chorines and wig-masters. They tell a haunting, mournful and darkly comic tale of yet another chorus girl burning to death beneath the stage while the show carried on above her head. Can somebody put a stop to these incidents? Will there be a bloodthirsty coup or a red velvet revolution? The management are literally getting away with murder. . .Sub Rosa has been created especially for the Citizens by David Leddy, who has been described as a 'theatrical maverick' (Financial Times), 'one of the most interesting dramatic writers on the Scottish scene' (Scotsman) and 'the rising star of Scottish theatre' (Observer). The promenade show will take an audience of just 15 people through the secret, backstage areas of the theatre. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Sussurus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly @ Royal Botanic Garden (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) | 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 | #68689 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Internationally acclaimed headphone audio-drama based on 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' while walking in exquisite gardens from 'brilliant site-specific theatre-maker' (Scotsman). | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Through The Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 May 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 | #42067 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A piece about the pop songs you listen to when you have a broken heart. The show is an eccentric and energetic pastiche of celebrity culture, like Cinderella rewritten by the Dalai Lama. Through The Night follows one night in the life of Stella Dustforth, a thoroughly hum-drum middle-aged woman who works in a betting shop. She finds a new job with a dominatrix-cum-record-producer and is thrown into a heady world of fashion stylists, PR girls and media tycoons.It's a tale of missing fingers, headbanging, betting shops, a dead dad left in his bed for weeks on end, Buddhists, wigs, spanking, Gladys Knight singing Help me make it through the night and an awful lot of white elastic. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Tympanic | ||
| 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 | #68690 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Untitled Love Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Jul 2011 | |||||
Company: | Fire Exit Ltd | |||||
| 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 | #129386 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Untitled Love Story- is a contemplative, provocative drama set in Venice. The audience is asked to relax, close their eyes and be guided through a meditative visualisation as an electro-acoustic soundscape surrounds them. This meditation-as-art performance combines ancient Buddhist meditation with modernist texts and Fluxus-inspired instructional artworks. We meet four characters in four different decades who glide along the same silky canals after midnight, but never meet. A priest teaches meditation in a Venetian monastery only to be accused of heresy. A writer moves to Venice only to find her partner disappears. An art historian's serene exterior stands in stark contrast to his terrifying night sweats. A famous art collector eats roasted songbirds that were drowned in cognac. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
White Tea | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Fire Exit and The Tron 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 | #99311 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | White Tea is an absurd, eccentric drama of love and loss, grieving and giving, brutality and beauty. A complex, multi-layered piece of visual theatre where the audience sit within a forest of origami paper birds and huge, colourful projections. they are given japanese tea and watch Naomi on her journey to Kyoto, searching for the mother she hasn't spoken to for ten years. But it turns out that her dying mother isn't quite who she seems. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
