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Chris Dolan

CHRIS DOLAN

  
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Award-winning poet, author and playwright Chris Dolan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His first play, The Veil, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1991. His other plays include Sabina! (1998), a bittersweet comedy set in Glasgow, which won an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First in 1996, and which he adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2000. Sabina! has had nine productions to date. The Reader, an adaptation of the novel by Bernard Schlink, was first staged in 2000 by Borderline Theatre, as was a further play, The Angel's Share (2000). He also translates and adapts drama from Spanish, including Short Spin and Wheesht, and translates his own work into Spanish. He writes regularly for radio, including two original plays and several adaptations, and an adaptation of Eco's The Name of the Rose was broadcast in 2006. He writes and presents radio features and documentaries for Radio Scotland and for BBC Radio 3 and 4. He writes screenplays which have included Poor Angels. A TV drama documentary, An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald, was broadcast by the BBC in 2006. His writing for television includes episodes of Taggart and River City. His journalism includes features, reviews and travel pieces for various newspapers and magazines, including The Independent and Scotland on Sunday. He has been Literary Reviewer and Features Writer for The Herald since 2002. In 1999, he won the Canongate Prize for Journalism. His short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and have been broadcast on BBC Radio and Radio Scotland. He is a former winner of the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition, and his book Poor Angels and Other Stories (1995) was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His first novel, Ascension Day, was published in 1998, and won the McKitterick Prize. Chris Dolan is an experienced tutor working throughout the UK, and in Spain. He has recently written a new short play, Hephaistos, with composer Gerry Rossi, the mythical story of the god of Fire.

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below is a list of Chris Dolan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Angels' Share, The         Double Shot         Hephaistos         Pitiless Storm, The         Reader, The         Sabina!         Short Spin and Wheesht         Veil, The

Angels' Share, The

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Cumbernauld/ Tour    2000

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Borderline Theatre Company

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Double Shot

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Hephaistos

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the mythical story of the god of Fire

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composer Gerry Rossi

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Pitiless Storm, The

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The eve of Scotland's referendum. A left-wing trade unionist endures a crisis of conscience as he is forced to question his political and moral beliefs in the face of a sea-change in his country's political life. Loved and respected Bob Cunningham (David Hayman) has devoted his life to the party he loves but is forced by the voices of his past and his conscience to re-evaluate everything he holds dear. A widower with a dicky ticker and an estranged son, Cunningham makes a decision that may change his life and affect the future course of his country.

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The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 2014

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Fair Pley

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Reader, The

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account of a relationship between a boy and an older woman which becomes a metaphor for post-war Germany's relationship with the crimes of its past.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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from the novel by Bernhard Schlink As translated by Donal McLaughlin

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adaptation

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Sabina!

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about escapism, and cultural misunderstanding

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Pleasance, London    1998

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Borderline Theatre Company

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Short Spin and Wheesht

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Veil, The

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh    1991

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