LIZ LOCHHEAD   (1947 - )


Liz Lochhead
   Nationality:
Scottish
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Plays by Liz Lochhead

LIZ LOCHHEAD
Among Broken Hearts
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Beauty and the Beards
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Theatre Babel
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Play/Drama
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Female
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Big Picture, The
1st Produced:
Glasgow
1988
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Female
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Blood And Ice
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
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1st Published:
Salamander Press, Edinburgh
1982
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: Traverse Edinburgh, 1982
Synopsis: On Mary Shelley
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Britannia Rules
1st Produced:
1998
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Genre:
Childrens Play
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: developed from Shanghaied
Synopsis: About a group of children growing up during WW 2
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Bunch Of Fives, A
1st Produced:
Glasgow
1983
Company:
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1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Tom Leonard, Dave Anderson, Dave McLennan and Sean Hardie
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Carmen
1st Produced:
Wildcat Theatre Production
1997
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Female
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Notes: -
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Complete Alternative History Of The World, Part One
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1st Published:
in Bagpipe Muzak
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Genre:
Revue
Show
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Male
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Female
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Notes: -
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Consuming Passions
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1987
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Female
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Notes: -
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Cuba
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
BT New Connections season
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1997
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
14
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes: -
Synopsis: this play is particularly popular with school and youth groups. CUBA is set in 1962 at an all-girls grammar school at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. The story is narrated by Barbara, now grown up, and recalls how she and her friend Bernadette felt they were living on the brink of a nuclear war and were moved to form their own protest.
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Disgusting Objects
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Notes: -
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Dracula
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
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1st Published:
Penguin, London
1989
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: from novel by Bram Stoker
Synopsis: shrugs off all those fanged Hammer spoofs and restores the real tragedy
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Educating Agnes
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
Theatre Babel
1st Published:
2008
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
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Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere. Version of School For Wives
Synopsis: works Moliere's playful rhymes into robust, clever and hilarious Scots-English
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Fancy You Minding That
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Good Things
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Borderline Theatre
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
Romantic Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: Susan, suddenly single and with the dreaded 5-0 glaring her in the face, has an Old Dad in his second childhood, a daughter in the throes of aggravated adolescence and an ex who, unfortunatley, still has the power to wound. . . Set in the charity shop where Susan's a volunteer, Good Things is a poignant, hilarious play with a lot to say about finding love later in life.
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Greeks, The
1st Produced:
2000
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Genre:
Tragedies
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Notes: Translated By David Greig, Tom McGrath, Liz Lochhead
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Jock Tamson's Bairns
1st Produced:
Glasgow
1990
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Notes: written with Gerry Mulgrew
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Magic Island, The
1st Produced:
Arts, London
1993
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Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare; Music By Stephen Neff
Synopsis: A version of Shakespeare's play THE TEMPEST for young people in which the story is told from Miranda's perspective and we learn that Prospero was a successful stage magician until his brother, manager of the Empire Theatre, decided to banish live performance in favour of films.
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
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1st Published:
Penguin, London
1989
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Male
4
Female
4
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Synopsis: Mary. . . uses the mythology that has grown up to surround Mary and her life to draw dramatic and uncomfortable parallels between the sacrifices of Mary in her day and the myriad sexual, political and religious preoccupations which still inform the Scottish psyche
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Medea
1st Produced:
Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow
2000
Company:
Theatre Babel
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2000
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides. Part of "The Greeks"
Synopsis: the kind of interpretation - brave, visionary, risky - that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light.
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Miseryguts
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2002
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere
Synopsis: bitter comedy about a worldly sophisticate who cannot help telling uncomfortable truths about his fellow men - and women, with one of whom, despite himself, he is deeply and painfully in love. Lochhead transmutes the characters into media rats in present-day Scotland, injecting the zest and vigour of her own comedies - with an added layer of savage satire.
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Not Changed
1st Produced:
2006
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Genre:
11 min monologue
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: part of Spend A Penny, a series of short plays based on an idea by Andy Arnold
Synopsis: Imagine that there are two half-hour shows, one played out in the Ladies toilet, the other in the Gents. Imagine that each show consists of four five-minute monologues, written and performed by some of the finest theatre artists in Scotland. And then imagine that you experience each of these snippets alone, face to face with a single actor, either in a toilet cubicle, or somewhere around the wash-basins. This is the Arches 15th anniversary show Spend A Penny; and it makes an extraordinary, intense and challenging 21st-century theatre experience, sometimes as rich and intimate as a private moment with a sister or best friend, sometimes as grotesque and vivid as a trip to the underworld, in a painting by Brueghel or Bosch.
Joyce McMillam, Scotsman
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Patter Merchant
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1989
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Perfect Days
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
1998
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Genre:
Romantic Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: celebrity hairdresser deafened by ticking of her biological clock until she meets a 26 year old stranger
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Pie Of Damocles, The
1st Produced:
Glasgow
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches
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Genre:
Revue
Show
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Notes: written with Tom Leonard, Alisdair Gray and Jim Kelman
Synopsis:
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Pinball
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1st Published:
(Methuen Theatrefile Volume 4) Methuen, London
1985
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Quelques Fleurs
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Scotland Plays" Nick Hern Books, London
1998
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Play/Drama
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Male
1
Female
1
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Set at Christmas, as Derek travels home from the rig to Verena, his shopaholic wife, this is a play in which two sides of marriage tell their separate stories and reveal the comic but rather sad state of their relationship and their individual lives. The horror of their childless partnership is slowly and systematically revealed.
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Red Hot Shoes
1st Produced:
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1983
Company:
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1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches
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Genre:
Tron Theatre Club Christmas Show
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Rosaleen's Baby
1st Produced:
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1984
Company:
Scottish Youth Theatre
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Same Difference
1st Produced:
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1984
Company:
Wildcat Theatre Company
1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Scotland Matters
1st Produced:
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1992
Company:
7:84 Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Notes: written by John Binnie, Iain Heggie, Liz Lochead, Ann-Marie Di Mambro, Gurmeet Mattu, Rona Munro and Jimmy Reid
Synopsis: An exploration of life in Scotland; class and culture, war and love, sex, politics and football.
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Shanghaied
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: A children's play, written for Boerderline Theatre. Expanded in 1998 for the Royal Lyceum into Britania Rules
Synopsis: About a group of children growing up during WW 2
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Silver Service
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Salamander Press, Edinburgh
1984
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Sugar And Spite
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Marcella Evaristi
Synopsis:
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LIZ LOCHHEAD
Tartuffe
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Polygon, Edinburgh (an edition of 1750)
1985
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