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DAVID GREIG |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
David Greig is one of the leading playwrights of his generation in Scotland and has worked extensively in the Near & Middle East developing the work of young writers.
Plays by David Greig
8000m | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43702 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about a six person Scottish expedition to the Hima;ayan peak of Lhotse | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Airport | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14643 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Translations Javier Sanchez | |||||
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American Pilot, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571229031 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51494 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | soldiers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Architect, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 0413707709 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14644 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bacchae | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | London : Faber & Faber, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571239160 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69575 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Battle Of Will | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | NT Transformation | |||||
| 1st Published: | London : Oberon Books, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840023082 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102290 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Battle of will / by Laurent Gaude ; translated by David Greig from a literal translation by Simon Taylor | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Being Norwegian | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough and Oran Mor | |||||
| 1st Published: | in David Greig Plays 1, Faber and Faber (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78084 | |||
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Genre: | 45 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| 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?" | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bomb a partial history, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Feb 2012 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132692 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
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Notes: | By Lee Blessing, Ryan Craig, John Donnelly, David Greig, Elena Gremina, Amit Gupta, Zinnie Harris, Ron Hutchinson, Diana Son and Colin Teevan | |||||
Synopsis: | The Bomb a partial history is in two parts, and is the political history of the Nuclear Bomb from 1940 to present-day Nuclear proliferation and its implications for the world now. Each of the two parts can be seen on consecutive nights or on an afternoon and evening over the weekend | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brewers Fayre | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in David Greig Plays 1, Faber and Faber (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102103 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of The World is Too Much, Theatre for Breakfast | |||||
| The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours; We have given our heart away, a sordid boon! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Caledonia Dreaming | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14645 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A moving, funny and fantastical look at politics and society at a turning point in history. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Acc.12911/89-90 | |||||
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Caligula | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0571220959 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14646 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Candide 2000 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Fruitmarket,Glasgow | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Suspect Culture | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14647 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Casanova | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Suspect Culture | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0571212786 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14648 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Graham Eatough, David Greig And Nick Powell | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cosmonaut's Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14649 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Creditors | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | London : Faber and Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571246250 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85099 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Damascus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Suspect Culture | |||||
| 1st Published: | London : Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571239177 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69141 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 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? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Danny 306 + Me (4 Ever) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | co-production with Birmingham Rep | |||||
| 1st Published: | Traverse Publishing, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1902378016 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14650 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dr Korczak's Example | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shawlands Academy & Schools Tour | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Tag Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0954520618 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14651 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| about the radical teacher and Holocaust victim Janusz Korczak's declaration of Children's Rights | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dunsinane | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571260218 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104082 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The vision of one man's desire to restore peace in a country ravaged by war. Set in the 11th century at the height of the fight for succession of the Scottish throne | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Europe | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Frontline Intelligence 3, Methuen Drama, London (Jul 1995) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14652 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fragile | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | Reclaim Productions, in association with Meeting Point Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430630 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126110 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Theatre Uncut. Across the country thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to public spending since World War Two. Theatre Uncut is a national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK's leading dramatists. | |||||
| casts the audience as Caroline, a caring mental health worker twisting herself into knots as she attempts to soothe one of her clients, distraught at the closure of the centre he attends | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 292 | |||||
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Futurology - A Global Revue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow, SECC / touring | 2007 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland, Suspect Culture and the Brighton Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55610 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 14 performers | |||||
Notes: | script devised David Greig and Dan Rebellato | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gobbo | ||
| 1st Produced: | N Edinburgh Arts Ctr / touring | 2006 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57205 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised and created by David Greig and Wils Wilson. From an original story by David Greig | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 06 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114049 | |||
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Genre: | guerilla theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by David Greig, Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's the night before the election and Gordon Brown can't sleep. Tomorrow he will go before the public to finally claim victory or accept defeat. In a fitful night of dreams and memories he casts his mind across a political career that spans two decades at the top. Does he deserve to win? What's at stake if he loses? But most important, what is there left to say? Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre will be a "freewheeling exploration of contemporary politics from inside the fractured mind of a Prime Minister on verge of an electoral breakdown." The script will be written during election week to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. The play will then be performed as staged readings on 6 May itself. Eight Scottish playwrights will work together to produce the finished play which will be directed by one of the playwrights, David Greig. Joining Greig will be Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. Speaking about the project, Traverse Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill, said, "Scottish theatre has a tradition of responding through theatre to events in the political world. Gordon Brown himself was a Board member of the famous political theatre company 7:84 which created, amongst others, the masterpiece The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. I've always wanted the Traverse to sit within the immediate cultural and political life of the nation. All theatre is political in that it is about and affects us, the way we live our lives, our position in society and the world." The performances will take place at the Traverse at lunchtime on election day, and again on election night, where the Traverse Bar Cafe will screen the election results throughout. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Greeks, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14653 | |||
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Genre: | Tragedies Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Translated By David Greig, Tom McGrath, Liz Lochhead | |||||
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Herges Adventures Of Tintin | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Young Vic for BITE:05 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47010 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | adaptation by Rufus Norris and David Greig from Tintin in Tibet by Georges Remi (Herge) | |||||
Synopsis: | Tears are shed and oriental mysticism abounds, in an adventure that creator Herge described as a "song dedicated to friendship" | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kyoto | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in David Greig Plays 1, Faber and Faber (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96065 | |||
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Genre: | 40 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of A Play, a Pie and a Pint | |||||
| 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. | |||||
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Local | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | Suspect Culture, Local Group, Castlemilk | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14654 | |||
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Maggie And The Cat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14655 | |||
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Genre: | Short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Mainstream | ||
| 1st Produced: | McRobert, Stirling | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Suspect Culture | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14656 | |||
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Meeting, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50127 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Midsummer | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89050 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Miniskirts Of Kabul | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The great game: Afghanistan, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840029222 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95207 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | 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. . . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Monster In The Hall, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS >>> | 02 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | TAG Theatre in association with Arts & Theatre Trust Fife | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571282876 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122369 | |||
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Genre: | musical play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Duck Macatarsney cares for her biker dad whose MS is getting increasingly bad. Her Dad - Duke - is a spliff smoking (for medicinal reasons you understand), bike riding, heavy metal loving, horror movie loving, pizza eating widower whos brought up Duck since the death of her Mother in a crash. The two of them are just about surviving when one morning the Duke wakes up blind and the Duck hears that the Social Services are coming to take her away. The Monster in the Hall follows Duck as she tries to protect her world from the terrifying prospect of change. A low budget indie comedy musical about a girl on the verge of a nervous breakdown played out by four actors and a big fat motorbike which goes vrrooommm. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oedipus The Visionary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Babel | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 0954962516 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50128 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 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." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Way Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Scotland Plays" Nick Hern Books, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1854593838 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14657 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Flannery tells his life story in the form of a guide to Berlin | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Outlying Islands | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0571217605 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14658 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peter Pan | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Theatre, Glasgow | 23 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105514 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | version of JM Barrie's classic adventure | |||||
Synopsis: | relocating the story to Victorian Edinburgh. Peter's impish arrival into the lives of Wendy, John and Michael is the beginning of a thrilling, deliciously naughty, eerie escapade. Together they take off on a fantastical flight to the colourful wonderful Never Land, an enchanted place of vivid characters. There's a gang of Lost Boys, a horde of pirates and, of course, one of the wickedest villains of all time. Razor-sharp sword fights, virtuoso flying sequences, acrobats, fire-eaters, ticking crocodiles and one great big hook will ensure the whole family is drawn into this distinctly Caledonian other-worldly adventure. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Petra | ||
| 1st Produced: | toured | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Tag Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71728 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Pyrenees | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 057122850X | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49568 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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? | |||||
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Ramallah | ||
| 1st Produced: | May 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848420700 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119500 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of triple bill From The West Bank. First performed as a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court Theatre, London on 13 March 2004 | |||||
| A writer returning home from Palestine to his wife is gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie. 'I wrote the piece after a number of trips to Palestine working with young playwrights,' explains Grieg, 'It tries to capture the awkwardness of return, because the people at home have carried on and are sort of grounded, while you're kind of still in the air.' | |||||
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San Diego | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Tron Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571221943 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14659 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Savage Reminiscence | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14660 | |||
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Speculator, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 0413743101 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14661 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Stalinland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14662 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Revival | |||||
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Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Owen's Bar, Coatbridge, Scotland | Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571282135 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111887 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| the play tells the story of Prudencia Hart, a collector of folk songs, an academic who has devoted her life to the study of folk material. She comes to the village fair in search of songs for her thesis 'Paradigms of Emotional Contact in The Performance and Text of Traditional Folk Song in Scotland 1572 - 1798'. After the fair she finds herself at a "lock-in" with the locals where songs are sung and stories told. That's when she hears of the existence of the lost song, the song beyond song& the original song& the uncollected song. She sets off on a journey into the night to find it. | |||||
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Stronger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14663 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg | |||||
Synopsis: | a chat over hot chocolate in a stylish Edinburgh Cafe bar develops into an altogether more sinister confrontation | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Suspect Culture | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Tron Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40007 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Timeless | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | Suspect Culture | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14664 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Ubu The King | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46477 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfred Jarry | |||||
Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Victoria | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413750907 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14665 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 05 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128612 | |||
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Genre: | election specia | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Peter Arnott, Alan Bissett, David Greig, David Ireland, Rona Munro, Morna Pearson, Alan Wilkins | |||||
Synopsis: | It's election night in the Hotel Caledonia, not that anybody cares. There are two weddings on and one's descending into a fistfight. The bar's littered with exhausted politicians who can't bring themselves to watch the count, the groom's trying to decide which bridesmaid to chat up on the principle of the single transferable vote, and Mr and Mrs Scotland's attempt at a dirty weekend is descending into divorce. At the centre of it all, Svetlana - the Lithuanian receptionist - is trying to decide whether she should stay or go. Can Gavin - the assistant manager with a crush on her the size of a small Baltic Republic - persuade her that Scotlands got a future? Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia will be written in the two days prior to May 5th to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. It will be performed script in hand on the day of the election itself. Some of Scotland's most exciting writers will conjure up a cast of dreamers, ranters, visionaries and street preachers all trying to make sense of a country which just can't seem to make up its mind what it wants. Expect comedy, satire and probably a fair degree of bitterness and rage. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 485 | |||||
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When The Bulbul Stopped Singing | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | book by Raja Shehadeh published by Profile Books, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49713 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | based on the book by Raja Shehadeh | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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Yellow Moon (The Ballad Of Leila And Lee) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Tag Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571239283 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57590 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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. | |||||
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