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KEVIN MACNEIL
Nationality: Scottish
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Award-winning writer from the Outer Hebrides, now resident in London. Novelist, playwright, poet, editor, lyricist, Creative Writing lecturer. Books include Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides (Canongate), The Stornoway Way (Penguin), A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde (Polygon). Plays include Sweetness (Dogstar Theatre). Honorary Writer in Residence at Kingston University - formerly taught on the Creative Writing MSc at the University of Edinburgh and at Uppsala University, where he formed The Third Shoe Drama Group. Keen cyclist, practising Buddhist.
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Callanish Stoned, The SweetnessCallanish Stoned, The
Synopsis:
the BILLING OF the Callanish Stoned as a fast-moving road-movie of a play based around one nights shenanigans during Summer Solstice is accurate, but gives no hint of the painful-for-the-characters and sometimes the actors upcoming journey. Though the surface story is about a midsummer trip to Callanish, the play is really about three experiences common to everyone: family conflict, loyalty to a childhood chum, and first love. Thats a potent mixture, especially when compounded by those three being at odds with one another. Lewis Macleod, played by David Fitzgerald, finds himself at the centre of this fraught triangle, his problems increasing as the plot unfolds.
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ann Palmer, Hi-arts
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1st Produced:
An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis Mar 2006
Organisations:
Theatre Hebrides
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: doubling
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Synopsis:
Two brothers, archie and Murdo, live in the Far North on opposite sides of a field. One brother is shrivelling away, the other eating himself to death on macaroons dipped in jam. these misfit siblings haven't spoken for years, although they share a cat. Kate is snowed in with archie after he puts her up for the night. In the days that follow, Kate is drawn in to the tissue of lies and self-deception that keeps the brothers alive in a bond of mutual loathing, leading them to their fate with profound, funny and touching results.
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adapted from novel by Torgny Lindgren
1st Produced:
An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis 24 Feb 2011
Organisations:
Dogstar Theatre Company
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Genre:
adaptation comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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