RACHAEL MCGILL   


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Scottish
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Plays by Rachael McGill

RACHAEL MCGILL
Butter Fish Parrot Fish
1st Produced:
Stoke Newington Festival
2000
Company:
Street Furniture
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A theatre poem for three voices: a man who takes his baby daughter to the pub, a girl who has got tangled up in a life that frightens her and an old lady who can't make sense of it all anymore.
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RACHAEL MCGILL
Lemon Princess, The
1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK
2005
Company:
Caird Company/W Yorks Playhouse
1st Published:
Oberon, London
2005
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
written by Rachael McGill from an original idea by Ruth Carney
Synopsis:
Mad cow disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalophy. I mean who thinks these names up? I prefer Mad Cow, at least you can still say it when you're pissed. Me daughter says you can get it from mechanically recovered meat products. I asked if that meant the RAC scraping up roadkill and selling it on. Despite their bickering stage double act on the Leeds pub circuit, Mike and his seventeen year old daughter Becky are close. She pretends not to laugh at his jokes, he pretends not to encourage her singing career, they nick each other's fags and moan about their non-existent love lives. Then Becky's behaviour starts to become very unusual. A fictional play based on a true story.
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RACHAEL MCGILL
Marieluise
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Gate Theatre
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
2004
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
Original Playwright - Kerstin Specht
Synopsis:
Marieluise Fleisser (1901-1974) is the author of Purgatory in Ingolstadt and Pioneers in Ingolstadt. Both plays were directed in Berlin in the 1920s by Bertolt Brecht. After a brief moment of glory, Fleisser's second play met with damning disapproval and outrage. Ostracized by the literary establishment, her family and the men in her life, Fleisser suffered a devastating personal and creative collapse, coming perilously close to suicide. Her work as a playwright would only receive recognition and success decades later.
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RACHAEL MCGILL
Round Jamie's
1st Produced:
National Youth Arts Festival, Ilfracombe
2002
Company:
Stoke Newington School
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
Play for young people
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Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Developed with and performed by ten GCSE drama students at Stoke Newington Media Arts College. The story of Jamie, whose father is cold and whose mother's behaviour is increasingly erratic and disturbing, who turns his back on his old gang when he meets Sean, a boy who makes up his own rules.
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RACHAEL MCGILL
Storeys
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
The Steam Industry
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An urban fairytale about a community and the fantasies and fears they project onto an empty building at the centre of their neighbourhood: a manic- depressive artist, an overworked doctor, a naïve banker, a down and out, a woman desperate for a baby, a man with Alzheimers, a wheeler-dealer and a nine year old boy.
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RACHAEL MCGILL
Ten Fingers and Ten Toes
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
The Steam Industry
1st Published:
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-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A play about a woman who makes monsters out of bits of rubbish and looks for love at bus stops.
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RACHAEL MCGILL
Time Of The Tortoise, The
1st Produced:
Theatre 503, London
2006
Company:
Oblique House
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes:
Original Playwright - Kerstin Specht
Synopsis:
tale of two illegal immigrants. The bodies of its main protagonists lie discarded under plastic sheets on stacking pallets in a greenhouse in Southern Europe. Both are dead but that doesn't stop them swapping recriminations.
Robert Shore, Metro London
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