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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1981

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3 Plays

One Act

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Who Are You Anyway?, Very Important Business, and Moondog

Synopsis:

Edinburgh

1978

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Edinburgh

1979

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Synopsis:
a Jane Goodall-type primatologist inhabits the jungle world of chimpanzees and baboons. Her presence adds a new dimension to the social structure of the apes, as seen through the eyes of Blue, a chimpanzee who narrates the onset of human aggressive traits amongst his fellows.

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1993

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Play/Drama

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1999

Magnetic North, Scotland, UK >>>

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Finnish translation published in 2003; German and French translations also available

Synopsis:
man who hasn't slept properly for 20 years finds it hard to distinguish between his dreams and reality. The play is based around the structure of Bach's Goldberg Variations

Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow

2000

Theatre Babel

Capercaillie Books

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Euripides. Part of "The Greeks"

Synopsis:
"As a dramatist, Tom McGrath's great strength is to pare things down to the fewest possible words, the sparsest settings, only the most elemental action. His extraordinary stroke with Electra is to seize on the brevities of Greek tragedy and whittle them down even further. The result: a lethal little piece, bristling with menacing meanings and consequences, representing a total minefield. We watch in horror as the characters blunder through it. His Electra is self-righteously correct, mad and disastrous. His Orestes, rather than god-enlightened, is a hesitant teenager blinded by a vision of new beginnings. All the characters have a dubious mixture of self-deluding, self-interested and high-minded motives. All are fatally credulous, believing messengers and messages even less reliably credentialed than CNN, Fox or the BBC. This piece zings with more compressed meaning than many ten times its length. It resonates powerfully for all of us watching similar stories unfolding in the Middle East, Congo, Rwanda, the USA and Northern Ireland."
Bob Tait, theatre reviewer and literary critic

Tramway, Glasgow, UK >>>

2000

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Tragedies

Tragedy

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Translated By David Greig, Tom McGrath, Liz Lochhead

Synopsis:

Edinburgh

1977

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Canongate, Edinburgh

1977

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Play/Drama

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written with Jimmy Boyle

Synopsis:
based on the life of Jimmy Boyle, is a searing attack on society in general and the Scottish penal system in particular

London

1979

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Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1994

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From Robert Louis Stevenson

Synopsis:

Edinburgh

1986

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Edinburgh

1976

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Capercaillie Books

2005

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aka Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy

Synopsis:
Part biographical drama, part-staging of some of Stan and Ollie's most fondly remembered cinema scenes. A charming theatrical work.

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1992

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst

Synopsis:

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1981

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part of 1-2-3 Plays

Synopsis:

Tron Theatre, Glasgow, UK >>>

2005

Magnetic North, Scotland, UK >>>

Capercaillie Books

2005

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis:
A partially autobiographical piece which arose out of the stoke he suffered in 2003, McGrath has put himself in the picture via the character of sam McCredie, a troublesome old bugger who'll go anything but gently into the good night.

Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire

1984

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on tour

1983

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Childrens

Youth Audience

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Edinburgh

1987

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written with Mhairi Grealis

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London

1978

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1995

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Translation

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Original Playwright - Daniel Danis

Synopsis:

Glasgow

1986

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Edinburgh

1988

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1981

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part of 1-2-3 Plays

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1981

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part of 1-2-3 Plays

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