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JOHN MCGRATH   (1935 - 2002)


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Plays by John McGrath

JOHN MCGRATH
Albannach, The
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1985
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
from novel by Fionn MacColla, music by Eddie McGuire
Synopsis:
A play about the constraints of highland life and finding the joyful side of life in the face of controversy.
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JOHN MCGRATH
All The Fun Of The Fair
1st Produced:
Half Moon, London
1986
Company:
7:84
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Chris Bond and others
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Angel Of The Morning
1st Produced:
-
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Baby And The Bathwater: The Imperial Policeman
1st Produced:
Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire
1984
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A blistering satire about the widespread fear of communism.
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JOHN MCGRATH
Bakke's Night Of Fame
1st Produced:
London
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Davis Poynter, London, 1973
ISBN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from novel A Danish Gambit by William Butler
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Basement In Bangkok
1st Produced:
Bristol
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
music and songs by Dudley Moore
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Behold The Sun
1st Produced:
Duisburg, West Germany
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Opera Libretto
Opera
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Written in collaboration with Alexander Goehr, music by Goehr
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Big Square Fields
1st Produced:
Bradford
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
music by Mark Brown
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Bitter Apples
1st Produced:
Liverpool
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Mark Brown
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Blood Red Roses
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1980
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
in "Two Plays For the Eighties", People's Press, Aberdeen, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Political Drama
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Parts:
Male
8
Female
8
Parts Other:
musicians
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
All that glistens is not gold; questioning the truth behind improving standard of living for working class people.
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JOHN MCGRATH
Boom
1st Produced:
Gospie, Sutherland
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "New Edinburgh Review, August, 1975
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Border Warfare
1st Produced:
Glagow
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Six-Pack: Plays For Scotland" Polygon, 1996
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
2
Parts Other:
musicians
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Catch, The
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1981
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Mark Brown
Synopsis:
A play examining local desires versus central government.
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JOHN MCGRATH
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The
1st Produced:
Liverpool
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
38
Female
11
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:
an Old Chinese Legend, a cruel town governor murdered, wife escapes leaving baby. Returns to try and 'drag the baby out of the Chal Circle'
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JOHN MCGRATH
Cheviot, The Stag, And The Black, Black Oil
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
West Highland Publishing, Kileakin, Isle of Skye, 1973
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
musicians
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Comrade Jacob
1st Produced:
Falmer, Sussex
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from novel by David Caute
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun
1st Produced:
London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
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Tragedy
Parts:
Male
11
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Fish In The Sea
1st Produced:
Liverpool
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pluto Press, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Mark Brown
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Game's A Bogey, The
1st Produced:
Aberdeen, Scotland
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Edinburgh University Student Publications, Edinburgh, 1975
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Half the Picture
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
From The Scott Inquiry By R Norton Taylor
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Hebrides, The
1st Produced:
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
1970
Company:
The Edinburgh Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
set in contemporary Scotland
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JOHN MCGRATH
Hover Through The Fog
1st Produced:
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1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Hyperlynx
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Monologue 90 min
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Parts:
Male
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Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
McGrath's final work. One act version performed at Edinburgh festival 2001
Synopsis:
first part is a cogent attack on the power of multinationals, the second, written after 11 September, links suicide bombers with anti-globalisation protesters
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JOHN MCGRATH
If You Want To Know The Time
1st Produced:
London
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Invasion, The
1st Produced:
Oxford
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Arthur Adamov; Written in collaboration with Barbara Canning
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Joe's Drum
1st Produced:
Aberdeen, Scotland
1979
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
People's Press, Aberdeen, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Political Drama
-
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
musiciams
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A historical - political story told with punch and zest and most importantly the power of conviction.
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JOHN MCGRATH
John Brown's Body
1st Produced:
Glagow
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Last Of The Maceachans, The
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Solo
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Lay Off
1st Produced:
Lancaster
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
also produced Unity Theatre, London, 1975. (7:84 England)
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Life And Times Of Joe Of England, The
1st Produced:
Basildon, Essex
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Little Red Hen
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1975
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
Pluto Press, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
What can we learn from the past that can help us build a better Scotland today?
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JOHN MCGRATH
Mairi Mhor - The Woman from Skye
1st Produced:
-
1987
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Using Gaelic song, one woman's story of imprisonment in the nineteenth century unfolds.
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JOHN MCGRATH
Man Has Two Fathers, A
1st Produced:
Oxford
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Nightclass
1st Produced:
Corby, Northamptonshire
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
music by Rick Lloyd
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
On The Pig's Back
1st Produced:
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with David MacLennan
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Oranges And Lemons
1st Produced:
Amsterdam
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Out Of Our Heads
1st Produced:
Aberdeen, Scotland
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Six-Pack: Plays For Scotland" Polygon, 1996
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
musicians
Notes:
music by Mark Brown
Synopsis:
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JOHN MCGRATH
Out Of Sight
1st Produced:
-
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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