ALAN MCKENDRICK (1979 - )
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by Alan McKendrick
Apeneck Sweeney |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Paul-Vincent McInnes | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | One or more musicians | |||
Notes: Adaptation of T.S. Eliot's 'Sweeney Agonistes'. Text reversioned by Alan McKendrick. First presented as part of Arches Theatre Festival 2007 | ||||
Synopsis: Aping TS Eliot's appropriation of antic sources, this modern adaptation of his unfinished play 'Sweeney Agonistes' draws upon the pounding music of The Fall, Japanese animation and fashion, even the Scottish social club scene and karaoke. Even the uncomfortable diversion of a raffle and a performance of Elvis's 'In The Ghetto' serve to further enhance the milieu of vulgarity and trite escapism which anticipates Sweeney's arrival. Alongside the script's ominous use of repetition, the ugly projection of death in life of Sweeney's shiftless appearance, and the numerous allusions to murder and cannibalism, the songs, acting like a grim Greek chorus, really hammer home the sense of impending menace, leaving the spectator feeling woozy. A challenging production of a rarely performed piece. - Jay Richardson, Scotsman | ||||
Bad Drive Well, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Alan McKendrick & Megan Barker | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: First presented in a double-bill with Megan Barker's 'Tongue Lie Tight'. | ||||
Synopsis: Celine and Lenny fast-forward their way through the painful rituals of 21st-century romance among the speed-dating lonely-hearts set. Oddballs with a shared penchant for wrestling magazines, and prone to rattling out a stream of hyper-tense one-liners, they endure awkward exchanges that ease into something which might just resemble a love affair in this peculiar, off-kilter rom-com that's a joy to watch. . . A hilarious motor-mouthed double act who find happiness beyond their solitary dysfunctions. . . Major writers in the making, caught at a crucial stage in their careers. - Neil Cooper, Herald | ||||
Finished With Engines |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Friedman McKendrick Viola | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: First presented as part of Arches Live! 2006. Shortlisted for the 2007 Meyer-Whitworth Award for best script by a new writer | ||||
Synopsis: One of those smart-talking, wisecracking pieces that nudges you into laughing at what is seriously unfunny: nuclear warheads and the question of whose finger is on the Big Red Button. Viola and Friedman are locked in mutual taunting aboard a US Navy observation platform while civil unrest escalates on a nearby island. He's a wannabe writer in search of material, she's his superior in search of... well, she'd like to "tidy up" the world's trouble-spots, but hers is not the finger on the trigger, thank God. Their verbal spats are hilarious, their hollering of bizarre sea-shanties a treat - yet all the time there's this undertow of threat, a sense that their boredom could drive them to do something stupid and dangerous. - Mary Brennan, Herald | ||||
I'm The Happiness Of This Earth |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Theatre 503/Bite-Sized | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Short (20 min) | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | One Offstage Voice, Gender Indeterminate | |||
Notes: Presented as part of 'Bite-Sized', a programme of short works. | ||||
Synopsis: I hate working in record retail. Touched-up by the backward DJ at the Primary School rollerdisco, now selling music in a modern prison, three inmates plot their escape down the brass hatch laundry chute. Also features strong sexual jealousy. | ||||
James Dean Death Scene, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Arches Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | One Female Voice, One Male Voice | |||
Notes: Winner of the Arches Award For Stage Directors In Association With Tron, Traverse And National Theatre Of Scotland 2006. First presented as part of Arches Theatre Festival 2006. | ||||
Synopsis: Not a lot happens in this brilliant, sordid and flawed little drama. . . Apart from the sex and violence, that is. The sex is variously casual, brutal, under-age and paid-for. The violence comes in a variety of guises from casual to premeditated, drunken to domestic. Which is not to say that The James Dean Death Scene is packed with graphic scenes of such events. Indeed, if all that happens to its characters was actually represented onstage, then it would have been banned long ago. Director and writer Alan McKendrick is much more canny than that. He takes the sort of plot that might, in some hands, have been used to create a gruesome video nasty and, instead, uses it to construct the most minimal of theatre pieces imaginable. In so doing, he succeeds in creating a play that is a compelling argument for theatre over film. - Thom Dibdin, Edinburgh Evening News | ||||
Please Don't Be So Such A Brute |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Theatre 503/Bite-Sized | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Presented as part of 'Bite-Sized 2', a programme of short works | ||||
Synopsis: "I can see some signs of civilisation. Also a church." Teenage German girl gives Glaswegian Gaelic teacher a lesson in language and action. Undeniably pornographic without showing much, nonetheless in dubious taste. | ||||