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Tramway, Glasgow, UK >>>

2004

Suspect Culture Theatre Company, Scotland >>>

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about a six person Scottish expedition to the Hima;ayan peak of Lhotse

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1996

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Translations Javier Sanchez

Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK >>>

2005

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Faber & Faber, London, 2005

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soldiers

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America's involvement in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. A badly injured pilot drops out of the sky and into a village where the villagers are engaged in a guerrilla struggle to preserve their way of life from a central government that's supported by America.

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1996

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1996

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Leo Black was an architect of his time, a builder of buildings, an idealistic designer, but these days he has an executive role in designing car parks. Has he really sunk so low? His family are falling apart and his buildings are falling down, leaving Leo struggling with the grubby reality of his once magnificent visions.

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, London, EUR >>>

2007

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Adaptation

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chorus

Original Playwright - Euripides. from a literal translation by Ian Ruffell

In the wildest of all Greek tragedies, Dionysus returns home with his cult of female followers to exact revenge for his mother's death. Drawing the townswomen under his hypnotic spell, he unleashes the full force of female sexuality on the city.

Glasgow: Oran Mor, Scotland, EUR >>>

2007

Paines Plough and Oran Mor

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In Being Norweigan, Sean, just out of prison, invites Lisa back to his flat for a drink. Lisa says she's Norwegian. She feels Sean must be Norwegian too. In this dark, funny encounter two outsiders reach out to each other across the deep fjords of the heart. "In Norway we're used to darkness in people's heads. We even prefer it. Because if there is no darkness, then what in heaven's name are you thinking about? We Norwegians think people who are happy are perhaps just a little bit above themselves, don't you?"

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1997

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A moving, funny and fantastical look at politics and society at a turning point in history.

Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London >>>

2003

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Faber & Faber, London, 2003

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Original Playwright - Albert Camus

In this passionate, poetic and darkly comic drama, a charismatic leader is given absolute freedom to challenge social convention in pursuit of personal obsession. Following the death of his beloved sister, Emperor Caligula deserts the Roman Assembly for three days and three nights. He returns with a single objective: to understand the meaning of life.

Old Fruitmarket,Glasgow

2000

Suspect Culture

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Adaptation

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Tron Theatre, Glasgow, UK >>>

2001

Suspect Culture

Faber & Faber, London, 2001

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By Graham Eatough, David Greig And Nick Powell

Suspect Culture's Casanova follows the travels of an internationally renowned artist who is curating the final exhibition of his illustrious career: an account of his life as the world's greatest lover. As the exhibition nears completion and the opening in his home town approaches, a cuckolded husband's plan to avenge the loss of his wife also draws to a close. Raising questions about love, honesty and life lived in the pursuit of pleasure, Casanova is an uncompromising examination of contemporary sex and morality.

Lyric Studio Theatre, Hammersmith, London >>>

1999

Paines Plough Theatre Company, London >>>

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2005

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Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a Russian erotic dancer; a French UFO researcher and an Edinburgh speech therapist in search of her missing husband are brought together through an extraordinary thread of connections, which bring us into contact with both the intimate and the epic.

Donmar Warehouse, London, EUR >>>

2008

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Original Playwright - August Strindberg

Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled. Regarded as Strindbergs most mature work, Creditors is a darkly comic tale of obsession, honour and revenge.

Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>>

2007

Suspect Culture

Faber and Faber

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winner Scotsman Fringe First Award

A brief encounter in a Syrian hotel finds a Scotsman grappling with language and love, meanings and misunderstandings. Welcome to Damascus. The oldest continuously inhabited city on earth, a jewel of the Arab world and the crossroads of the Middle East. Paul is here to sell English language textbooks. It s Valentine's Day and he d rather be at home with his wife. Paul begins negotiations with his Syrian contact, Muna. Can he seal the deal? At first, misunderstandings multiply - then, their presumptions about one another fall away and new possibilities emerge. Meanwhile Zacharia, the hotel porter, fervently hopes that Paul has brought some Scottish girls with him and all the while, in the background, Elena, the Ukrainian cocktail pianist, tinkles away. . .In Damascus, a city of transformations, Paul grapples with language and love, meanings and misconceptions. And as his flight home is delayed by a bomb at Beirut Airport, he begins to wonder - will he ever leave?

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1999

co-production with Birmingham Rep

Traverse Publishing, 1999

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Shawlands Academy & Schools Tour

2001

Tag Theatre Company

Capercaillie Books

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about the radical teacher and Holocaust victim Janusz Korczak's declaration of Children's Rights

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1994

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1996

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Play/Drama

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Europe is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing

Glasgow, SECC / touring

2007

National Theatre of Scotland, Suspect Culture and the Brighton Festival

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script devised David Greig and Dan Rebellato

lt is the 14th UN Conference of the Future, and the subject is climate change. The delegates have gathered at their Perspex desks to hammer out a Kyoto-style agreement. but they seem more interested in national rivalries, free-market enterprise and post-conference sex than saving the planet. Only the poor woman from a sinking Pacific island 465 miles south of Fiji has any sense of urgency, and she is as powerless as the rioting mob on the streets outside the meeting room. What turns a white-collar satire into extraordinary' theatre is the repeated segues into flamboyant cabaret in Graham Eatough's production for Suspect Culture and the National Theatre of Scotland. When the delegates aren't pontificating behind laptops. they are stepping out into tangos, torch songs or gymnastic routines. When they can't settle on a joint manifesto, they break into a rousing sing-along worthy of Chitty Chilly Bang Bang. The procrastination continues while Rome burns, the company presenting a heightened vision of a species running headless into the unknown. uncertain whether to celebrate humanity's gift for artistry and spectacle, or to put an end to mankind for fear of a frightening future. The apocalyptic conclusion shows our egotistical, vainglorious and confused actions for the pathetic gestures they are, though the play's political ambivalence adds more to our eco--confusion than it clarifies.
- Mark Fisher, Guardian

N Edinburgh Arts Ctr / touring

2006

National Theatre of Scotland

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devised and created by David Greig and Wils Wilson. From an original story by David Greig

a perfect - and perfectly silly - modern day fairytale about a goblin with a dislike of adventures who gets drawn into a series of life-and-death escapades on the islands of Skye and Rum. Performed like a children's party, it features farting, grape throwing, a raffle and daft songs.
Mark Fisher, Guardian

Tramway, Glasgow, UK >>>

2000

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Tragedies

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Barbican, London, EUR >>>

2005

Young Vic for BITE:05

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adaptation by Rufus Norris and David Greig from Tintin in Tibet by Georges Remi (Hergé)

Tears are shed and oriental mysticism abounds, in an adventure that creator Herge described as a "song dedicated to friendship"
Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard

Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>>

2009

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The play is political in its subject, but it doesn't take sides: both characters get to have a say. Dramatically it is more interesting in a way to hear Dan's attack on the pessimism of the green movement. Though Lucy got some equally juicy stuff to get her teeth into too.

Tramway, Glasgow, UK >>>

1998

Suspect Culture, Local Group, Castlemilk

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1999

Suspect Culture

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1999

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Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>>

2008

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It's Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. Its raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. He's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld and she's a high powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's out of his league and he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Ever. Ever. Which is why they do. Midsummer is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery.

Tricycle Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2009

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part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1979 - 1996 : Communism, The Mujahideen And The Taliban

David Greig's contribution features an imaginary meeting between a British journalist played by Jemima Rooper and the former President Najibullah (Ramon Tikaram). This takes place as Taliban fighters approach Kabul, terrifyingly for all concerned thanks to an impressive soundscape from Tom Lishman that could easily induce nightmares. The fantasy adds humour without diminishing the powerful story of a man who spent four years leading his country with Russian help and then as many more under house arrest in a UN compound. The discussion paints a picture of the deposed leader while also explaining some of the politics and the surprising fact that the leaders of the various factions (Modernist-Communist/Conservative/Islamist) were all at Kabul University together in 1973. The ending seems gruesome, even if only imagined, but turns out to be as nothing when compared with the last play of the afternoon. . . .
- British Theatre Guide

Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow

2000

Theatre Babel

Capercaillie Books,

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Original Playwright - Sophocles. Part of "The Greeks"

"David Greig's fine adaptation produces a clarity of narrative and a simple, resonant language that renders the epic accessible."
Robert Thompson, Herald

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1995

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in "Scotland Plays" Nick Hern Books, London, 1998

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Flannery tells his life story in the form of a guide to Berlin

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

2002

Traverse Theatre Company

Faber & Faber, London, 2002

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Play/Drama

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Fringe First, Herald Angel

a glimpse of an innocence, a way of seeing and a way of being young that is about to be destroyed forever.

toured

1996

Tag Theatre Company

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Menier Chocolate Factory, London >>>

2005

Paines Plough Theatre Company, London >>>

Faber & Faber, London, 2005

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A man is found lying in the snow at the foot of the Pyrenees. He remembers nothing. He believes he is British. A young woman from the British Consulate is dispatched to confirm his nationality and to try to piece together his identity. When Vivienne, a middle aged woman from Edinburgh arrives, she presents him with a history he doesn't recognise. Is he really who she says he is? As the snow melts on the mountains the man must decide which reality he will enter - Anna's or Vivienne's? Who is he really?

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

2003

Tron Theatre Company

Faber & Faber, London, 2003

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A series of connecting and diverging stories are merged into a single compelling narrative. A surreal, darkly comic journey of discovery through the American dream

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1999

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1999

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Citizens Theatre Stalls, Glasgow, UK >>>

1993

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Original Playwright - August Strindberg

a chat over hot chocolate in a stylish Edinburgh Cafe bar develops into an altogether more sinister confrontation

Tron Theatre, Glasgow, UK >>>

2003

Tron Theatre Company

Faber & Faber, London, 2001

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follows the travels of an internationally renowned artist, who is curating the final exhibition of his illustrious career: an account of his life as the world's greatest lover. As the exhibition nears completion and the opening in his own town approaches, a cuckolded husband's plan to avenge the loss of his wife also draws to a close.

Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London >>>

1998

Suspect Culture

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chorus

Original Playwright - Alfred Jarry

Set at Christmas in a neglected old people's home run by a seedy young male care worker, it finds Dad Ubu and Mum Ubu crashing into senile delusion which lands Dad on the throne of Kazahstan. - Mark Brown, Sunday Herald

The Pit, London

2000

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2000

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A trilogy in one play, Victoria is set in 1936, 1976 and 1996, and tells the story of three generations of rich and poor in the Scottish Highlands. Grasping the huge theme of the spilt in the country's culture between puritan repression and libertarian openness, it revolves around three different Victorias, all played by Neve McIntosh. In 1936, the story begins with deference and revolution. Victoria is a servant who emigrates when she's made pregnant by Oscar, a feckless student. For motives of his own, he joins his communist friend Euan to fight the fascists in Spain. But, before they go, they settle scores with David, owner of the Red House and a cranky admirer of Adolf Hitler. By 1976, the whole landscape has changed. Enter Vicky, an American geologist looking for oil. She marries Oscar's son, while Oscar leads a council bid to buy the Red House and turn it into a school. Meanwhile, its owner, a dippy-hippy aristo, gets into Indian mysticism. In 1996, the hunt for oil has been taken over by the quarrying of rock and Victoria is the spoilt daughter of Vicky, who now lives at the Red House. Hippy counterculture has been replaced by environmental protest, and big business learns to cover exploitation with public relations. Victoria discovers Oscar's past and tries to find her own identity.
Aleks Sierz, Tribune

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

2004

Traverse Theatre Company

book by Raja Shehadeh published by Profile Books, London, 2003

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The Palestinian story has become synonymous with occupation, landlessness and the struggle for nationhood. But what's it like for the individual, when the threat knocks on his own door? Whose home is it anyway? In the spring of 2002, the Israeli Army - the fourth most powerful in the world - invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah and laid siege to its people for one long month. Ramallah, known as the 'Bride of Palestine' for its heritage, internationalism, economy, and vibrant mix of Christian and Muslim traditions, was devastated, and its people killed. Palestinian cultural organisations were singled out for destruction. When the Bulbul Stopped Singing is a tour de force for one actor which documents Raja Shehadeh's determination to withstand invasion and draws a meticulous, quiet picture of sheer ordinariness fighting back: tanks at the end of the street; soldiers camping out in his brother's apartment; crops rotting in the fields; no bread. And still Raja paces his house and wryly attests to the Palestinian secret weapon: 'surmoud', or perseverance.

Glasgow: Citizens Circle, Scotland, EUR >>>

2006

Tag Theatre Company

Faber & Faber, London, 2006

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Taking The Ballad of Stagger Lee, one of the most notoriously macabre blues songs in musical history, as the starting point for a new play for young people isn't an obvious option for a writer. Then again, such leaps of faith have been a constant of David Greig's now substantial back catalogue. This thoroughly contemporised teenage Bonnie-and-Clyde-style yarn is set among the disaffected youth of Linlithgow, and takes in everything from celebrity culture, self-harm, murder, stag hunting and the romantic potency of 1980s Swedish pop group A-Ha's big hit, Take On Me. Out of this emerges a lyrical little tragedy that concerns the ease with which young lives can be wasted when accidents happen and things spiral out of control. An Asbo case in waiting, "Stag" Lee Macalinden has ambitions to be Linlithgow's first pimp. When he meets Silent Leila, the pair become stars of CCIV for all the wrong reasons, finding a story to call their own before heading north in search of Lee's errant father.
Neil Cooper, Herald