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Grae Cleugh

GRAE CLEUGH

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  represented by Nick Marston

Grae lives and works in Glasgow where he was born and brought up. He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before becoming a playwright. Grae's first short play, Eight Nine Ten Out was short-listed for the Soho Theatre's Westminster Prize. His first full-length play F***ing Gameswas produced at the Royal Court in 2001 and was directed by Dominic Cooke. Grae won the Laurence Olivier Award in 2002 for the UK's Most Promising Playwright. For several years after, Grae was principally working as a professional actor. In 2009, Grae was awarded an AHRC scholarship and gained a Masters degree in playwriting at Royal Holloway, University of London. He subsequently completed a new play Scottish Widows which is being produced at the White Bear Theatre London in May 2014. Grae recently finished his latest play High Risk Red and is now writing his fourth play The Debater. Grae has been an Arts Council England Assessor for New Writing (Theatre) since 2010, and has taught playwriting at the Theatre Royal Windsor and Edinburgh Napier University.

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         Eight, Nine, Ten, Out         Fucking Games         High Risk Red         Patriot, The         Scottish Widows

Eight, Nine, Ten, Out

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Man In the Moon Theatre, London    1998

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Fucking Games

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Terence and Jonah have been together for ten years. Jude is young, good-looking and always chooses boyfriends badly. So, when he brings round his latest, Danny, the games begin. Fucking Games is a sharp, powerful and ironic portrait of contemporary gay relationships in the post-aIDS era.

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won the 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Playwright, was directed by Dominic Cooke

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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High Risk Red

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part of "Courting Drama". Eight handpicked writers and directors speed date to find a new collaborative partner that will help them bring a 20 minute piece of new writing to life.

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Theatre Renegade

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Patriot, The

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Set in the Edinburgh New Town home of a Scottish executive minister called Tom Gordon, it imagines a confrontation between this pillar of the post-devolurtion establishment, and a young SNP activist, Paul. who is enraged by the betrayals and brutalities of recent New Labour policy, and in particular by the death in Iraq of his younger brother, a soldier in the British army: the subject, in other words, could hardly be more timely.
- Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

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Tron Theatre Company

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Scottish Widows

Scottish Widows
Scottish Widows is written as a series of four monologues set in Scotland and based round the theme of widowhood, this is a work - counter-intuitively perhaps - full of humour, as well as one that explores the heartbreak involved in losing a husband or wife. It is also one of those rare modern plays that examines the lives (including the sex lives) of those elderly women and men who increasingly make up such an important part of our world, dealing as it does with profound issues of love, friendship, families and loss later in life. But while Scottish Widows is a play about death - how could it not be - it is also deeply life-affirming: its stories show us how in the face of sometimes terrible grief we must keep going, moving forward. This play takes you on a wondrous journey through the lives of four Scots who lose their partners but come out the other end still fighting. Enjoy their strange, marvellous stories of sex, drugs, crown green bowls, heartbreak and a Turkish adventure!

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Stolen Elephant Theatre

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783191598

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four monologues

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