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Jo Clifford

JO CLIFFORD  (1950 - )

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  represented by Lisa Foster


Jo Clifford (formerly known as John Clifford) is an award-winning playwright, translator, poet and performer, who has also worked as a journalist and academic. She was instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Traverse Theatre Company in the 1980s. Jo Clifford is the author of over 70 works in every dramatic medium. Her work has been translated into many languages and has been performed all over the world. Her plays include THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Traverse Theatre), SEX, CHIPS AND THE HOLY GHOST (Oran Mor), EVERYONE (Royal Lyceum Theatre), AN APPLE A DAY (Oran Mor/Traverse Theatre), LOSING VENICE, PLAYING WITH FIRE, INES DE CASTRO, LIGHT IN THE VILLAGE (all for Traverse Theatre), TCHAIKOVSKY & THE QUEEN OF SPADES and CHARLES DICKENS: THE HAUNTED MAN (both for Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Also for the stage, Jo has adapted FAUST PARTS 1 & 2 and ANNA KARENINA (both for the Royal Lyceum Theatre), GREAT EXPECTATIONS (TAG), LA VIE DE BOHEME and WUTHERING HEIGHTS and has translated SCHISM IN ENGLAND, LIFE IS A DREAM, CELESTINA, THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA and BINTOU. For radio, Jo has written SPAM FRITTERS, WRITING HOME TO MOTHER, MADELEINE and AIN'T IT GREAT TO BE BLOOMIN' WELL DEAD and has adapted BALTASAR & BLIMUNDA. Jo's adaptation of Charles Dickens GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Beckman Unicorn) is currently touring the UK. Jo is under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland and is also working on a short film based on SEX CHIPS AND THE HOLY GHOST which has been commissioned by Channel 4 and The Alpha Fund.. She lives in Edinburgh and is a former Professor of Theatre at Queen Margaret University

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 Anna Karenina         Anna: A Chamber Opera         Apple A Day, An         Archduke, The         Bazaar         Between Worlds         Bintou         Blood Wedding         Celestina         Charles Dickens : The Haunted Man         Crossing, The         Dark Night's Dawning, A         Doctor Of Honour, The         Dreaming         Every One         Faust PArts 1 And 2         Force Of Destiny, The         Girl Who Fell To Earth, The         God's New Frock         Gospel According To Jesus Queen Of Heaven, The         Great Expectations         Hansel And Gretel         Heaven Bent, Hell Bound         House Of Bernarda Alba, The         House With Two Doors, The         How Like An Angel         Ines De Casrto         Jesus Queen Of Heaven         La Nuova Tonica Di Dio         Leave To Remain         Life Is A Dream         Light In The Village         Losing Venice         Lucy's Play         Macbeth         Magic Flute, The         Magic Theatre, The         Opera Pour Terezin, Un         Playing With Fire         Queen Of Spades, The         Romeo And Juliet         Schism In England         Seagull, The         Sex, Chips And The Holy Ghost         Tchaikovsky And The Queen Of Spades         Ten Minute Play         Tieresias         Tree Of Knowledge, The         Tree Of Life, The         Vie De Boheme, La         What's In A Name         World, The         Wuthering Heights         Yerma

Anna Karenina

Synopsis:
a huge novel filletted to two and half hours. Beautifully distills the romance to the four main characters, an aatonishing insight into the double nature of the couple bond, the way it is both the arena for our most intensely private dreams and longings, and a profoundly social institution which cannot survive the trauma of parenthood, boredom, ageing and the thoUSAnd other banalities of everyday life without the rich webeb of other people's needs and expectations to sustain it. - MacMillan, Scotsman

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novel by Leo Tolstoy

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Anna: A Chamber Opera

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.11524/27-8

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Apple A Day, An

Synopsis:
a transsexual prostitute is waiting for her client. First he's late, then he's too afraid to tell her what he wants: her to eat an apple. a Cox's Orange Pippin. Nothing else will do. and then come close up to his face. and burp. a hard day at the office. . .

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part of Oran Mor's groundbreaking lunchtime theatre programme, A Play, A Pie And A Pint

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One act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Archduke, The

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-    1988

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.11524/41

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Bazaar

Synopsis:
In an attempt to be famous for a day Hassan, the owner of a bric-a-brac shop, enlists his neighbour anton to help make a video for a You've Been Framed style TV programme. In the process, poisoned undercurrents of racism rise to the surface.

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Original Playwright - David Planell

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in Spanish Plays, Nick Hern Books, London, 1998   -

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Between Worlds

Synopsis:
The play presents a hotel lobby as an afterlife cliche, where the spirits of coma victims await an elevator to take them up to death or back down to their bodies

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Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt

1st Produced:
Union Theatre, London    2006

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Melmoth Productions

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Genre:
Translation

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Bintou

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Original Playwright - Koffi Kwahule

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Translation

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Blood Wedding

Jo Clifford
Garcia Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

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Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

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Genre:
translation

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Male:  3            Female:  8            Other:  extras

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Celestina

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Celestina is a delicious paella of a production. It is a show that pulsates with the rythms of Catalonia, and not just because of the band playing hip-swinging rumba in the degenerate style bar that forms the set. - Fisher, Sunday Times

Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando de Rojas

1st Produced:
King's, Edinburgh    2004

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Birmingham Rep and Teatre Romea, Barcelona

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adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Charles Dickens : The Haunted Man

Synopsis:
Portrayal of the great novelist and glimpses of the inner workings of that astonishing creative mind.

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Pitlochry Festival    2001

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Solo Play/Drama

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Crossing, The

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a dance with text performance on Peat And The Memory of the Earth being created in collaboration with Claire Pencak And Tabularasa Dance Company. (Development Week April 16th-22nd, 2007)

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Work In Progress    -

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Genre:
Dance Drama

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Dark Night's Dawning, A

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Zenana Theatre Company    1993

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Doctor Of Honour, The

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Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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St. andrews    1983

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Dreaming

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Edinburgh Puppet Theatre    1994

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Every One

Jo Clifford
Explores the lives of an ordinary family who are aware that they are part of a story, and initially bemused by all the attention. The everyday concerns and events of their lives form the early part of the play - raising children, growing up, growing old. But all of this changes when Death comes calling. Plunged suddenly into a reality where they can no longer rely on the 'certainties' of existence, Joe, Mary, Kevin and Mazz must reassess their lives. Perspectives change and the things they cherish and regret are stripped of all the usual distractions and confusions. The play presents a warm and uplifting look at how ordinary people deal with tragedy. It's a story that will resonate with anyone who has lost someone they love - and suggests that when we grieve it's for the good times that are past rather than the pain we feel now.

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Play/Drama

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Faust PArts 1 And 2

Synopsis:
Tale of the bored and rebellious academic who sells his soul to the devil in return for a life of extreme human experience.

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Original Playwright - Goethe. Nominated for four Scottish Critics Awards: Best play, Best production, Best Actor, And Best technical presentation

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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  extras, doubling

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Force Of Destiny, The

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(Duque de Rivas) Runner up in Gate Theatre's translation competition

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-    2006

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Girl Who Fell To Earth, The

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Great Eastern Stage national Tour

1st Produced:
Grantham, Lincolnshire    1991

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God's New Frock

Synopsis:
Billy wants to be a girl and wear frocks but he is not allowed to. God has a closet full of frocks that He dare not tell anyone about so he has locked them up and thrown away the key

Notes:
La nuova tonica di Dio (Italian translation of God's New Frock) in Teatro scozzese, Intercity Festival And Ubulibri , Milano 2007. To be produced by Teatro della Limonaia, Florence, As part of their Intercity festival in October 2007.

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Teatro Do Mundo

1st Published:
in The Sexual Theologian, Marcella althAus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, SCM Press, 2007   -

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Solo Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gospel According To Jesus Queen Of Heaven, The

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part of Tranny Hotel, organised by Mandy Romero, is A weeklong celebration of transgender Arts that will be At the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool from 11 to 13 November And is Also A part of Liverpool's Annual Homotopia LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual And transgender) festival.

1st Produced:
adelphi Hotel, Liverpool    11 Nov 2011

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Great Expectations

Jo Clifford
A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to help him escape, his life takes a series of unexpected turns. Invited to the house of the mysterious Miss Havisham, he falls in love with her adopted daughter, the beautiful but cold-hearted Estella. Then the generosity of an unknown benefactor sends him to London to become a gentleman. But the truth behind his change of fortune, once revealed, is not what Pip expects...Eminently actable and stageable, this version is also ideal for schools and amateur theatre companies.

Notes:
novel by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Chandler Studio, RSAMD, Glasgow    10 May 1988

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Glasgow Mayfest

1st Published:
in "Frontline Drama 4: adapting Classics" Methuen, London, 1996
Nick Hern Books, London (2012) >>>    -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hansel And Gretel

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musical Adaptation by Pete Stollery

1st Produced:
Theatre Workshop    2000

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Blue Tiger Music Theatre

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Childrens Youth audience

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Heaven Bent, Hell Bound

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Original Playwright - Tirso de Molina

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aTC, London >>>    1987

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House Of Bernarda Alba, The

Synopsis:
Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression. When Bernardas husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house. But locks cant hold back the growing tide of desire.

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Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

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Male:  -            Female:  11            Other:  extras

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House With Two Doors, The

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Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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Edinburgh    1980

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How Like An Angel

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1st Produced:
Theatre Co-opEdinburgh    1987

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Ines De Casrto

Synopsis:
Doomed love affair between Pedro, heir to the Portuguese throne and a woman.

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also An opera.

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in "First Run 2", Hern, London, 1990   -

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Genre:
Tragedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.9454/22

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Jesus Queen Of Heaven

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Glasgay! Festival

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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La Nuova Tonica Di Dio

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see God's New Frock (listed Above)

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Leave To Remain

Synopsis:
a performance/ritual on death and the recovery from mourning

Notes:
Devised And performed by John Clifford And Suzanne Dance

1st Produced:
Scottish Storytelling Centre    2007

Company:
Teatro Do Mundo

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Genre:
Piece

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  musician

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Life Is A Dream

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Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca

1st Produced:
Edinburgh International Festival    1998

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Light In The Village

Synopsis:
about a poor Third World family and their corrupt masters, one of whom commandeers the village electricity supply

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1991   -

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Genre:
Parable Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10180/79

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Losing Venice

Synopsis:
a noble Duke does things because. . .that's what Dukes do.

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in "Scot-Free", Hern, London, 1990   -

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Male:  9            Female:  8            Other:  -

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10180/21

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Lucy's Play

Jo Clifford
"John Clifford uses the story of St. Lucy who, in Syracuse in 300 aD is said to have put out her eyes rather than submit to a Roman general, as a jumping off point in all kinds of directions . . . Clifford looks at the way self-deception, ambition and manipulation are used by the Church to secure their position 'at a time of darkness before the red dawn'. and he goes on to deal with the warmongers, the futility of conflict and the ability of the human spirit to surmount impossible odds, ending on a high note of forgiving optimism."
- Richard Mowe, Theatre Scene

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Capercaillie Books, 2007   fairplay-lucy-play

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10530/18; Theatre Record Vol VI (1986) Page 0757

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Macbeth

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-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Perth Theatre Company    1991

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adaptation

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Magic Flute, The

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Blue Tiger Music Theatre    1998

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-   -

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-

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Magic Theatre, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
from Cervantes

1st Produced:
Winged Horse Touring Theatre Company, Edinburgh    1989

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Opera Pour Terezin, Un

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-

Notes:
Translated with the help of the Beaumarchaise Foundation

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-    1996

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-   -

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Translation

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Playing With Fire

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-

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Original Playwright - August Strindberg.

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Play One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.9454/9

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Queen Of Spades, The

Synopsis:
It is in 1917 in St Petersburg and old Russia's last days are come; war rages and revolution waits in the wings.

Notes:
from the novella by Pushkin And the opera by Modest And Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1st Produced:
Pitlochry    2002

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-

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-   -

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-

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Romeo And Juliet

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-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare

1st Produced:
TaG Theare Company, Glasgow    1984

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-

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-   -

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Schism In England

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-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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Seagull, The

Synopsis:
This open air production of the Russian genius's great work has been especially adapted by the celebrated Scottish playwright Jo Clifford. It is as though this masterpiece was written for alba at Duddingston overlooking the loch. Magical drama. --

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Theatre alba

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-   -

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-

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Sex, Chips And The Holy Ghost

Synopsis:
A transsexual nun, a gay priest, a bag of chips. . ...a miracle. . .Jo Clifford's playful, tender and provocative new play takes us to a world where love is sacred, between no matter who, pleasure is holy, and a chip is the key to the Kingdom. And the key to the kingdom tastes delicious.

Notes:
this play was created collectively by Jo Clifford with SUSAn Worsfold and David Walshe and with the help of Playwrights Studio Scotlandand the Citizens Theatre

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a Play, a Pie and a Pint

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-   -

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-

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short play

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Tchaikovsky And The Queen Of Spades

Synopsis:
Clifford's idea is to find in Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades a key to the composer's own life. Thus the aged Countess who, in the story, possesses the secret of the fortune-creating three cards, transmogrifies into the real-life Madame von Meck who bankrolled the composer. and, just as the fictional Hermann is torn between money and love, so the composer himself battles with the pull of art and sex. Mean-while, a ghostly Tchaikovsky surveys events from the vantage point of 1917.
- Michael Billington, Guardian

Notes:
from story by Alexander Pushkin. Revived with Russian And British Actors At the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton (10th- 26th May, 2007)

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Ten Minute Play

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-

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-

1st Produced:
English Shakespeare companyLondon    1991

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-

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-   -

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Tieresias

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-

Notes:
a narrative/performance piece exploring Archetypes of Androgyny

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Work In Progress    -

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-

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-   -

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Piece

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Tree Of Knowledge, The

Jo Clifford
Philosopher, David Hume and father of modern economics, adam Smith awake in Edinburgh in the early 21st Century. To their bewilderment, joy and horror, it is a prerevolutionary world where all the knowledge they ever dreamt of is at everyone's fingertips and the utopia of a free market economy is a reality. But at what cost to the planet and to humanity? With their fellow traveller, Eve, a Scottish everywoman, Hume and Smith embark on an extraordinary journey of enlightenment - from the concrete New Towns of Scotland's central belt, to Silicon Glen, Ecstasy and the gay clubs of Edinburgh.

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Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tree Of Life, The

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Brunton Theatre    2002

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-

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-   -

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Vie De Boheme, La

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-

Notes:
From The Novel By Henri Murger

1st Produced:
Pitlochry    1993

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-

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-   -

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What's In A Name

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Prithvi Theatre, Bombay    1993

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-

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World, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
co-production between the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews, And Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

1st Produced:
-    2005

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-

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-   -

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Wuthering Heights

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-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Pitlochry    1995

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-

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-   -

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-

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Yerma

Jo Clifford
Written in 1934, Yerma is set in rural Southern Spain, where Lorca grew up. as in his other masterpieces, Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda alba, the play's main character falls victim to an overwhelming passion they cannot control. In Yerma - which means 'barren' - a woman longs to have a child by her reluctant husband. although remaining faithful to him despite her attraction to another man, she eventually murders him in a climactic frenzy.

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Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

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Translations

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Male:  8            Female:  19            Other:  extras

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