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DUNCAN MCLEAN (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Duncan was born in Aberdeenshire in 1964, and has lived in Orkney since 1992. While based in Edinburgh in the 1980s, he started writing songs, stand-up routines and plays for the Merry Mac Fun Co, a Street theatre and comedy act with agit-prop tendencies. The Merry Macs won various awards, and were twice nominated for the Perrier. They were able to perform in a great range of venues from community halls in Shetland to West End theatres in London, and from unemployed workers' centres in Rutherglen to the Wogan show on BBC1. In 1992 he published his first book, a collection of short stories called Bucket of Tongues, and since then has published several more ncluding two novels and a first collection of plays, imaginatively entitled Plays: One. Around this time he also set up and ran the Clocktower Press, a small but influential publishing house, which helped bring a new generation of Scottish writers to wider attention. In recent years he has divided his time between writing, music and selling wine and whisky in his wife's family business in Orkney. In 2006 he won the prestigious trade award UK Restaurant Wine Supplier o the Year. In spring 2007 he returned to writing as his full time occupation (more or less) for the first time since 1997.
Plays by Duncan McLean
Aalst | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland, Victoria and Tramway | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61632 | |||
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Genre: | new Scottish version Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Dimitri Verhulst and Pol Heyvaert | |||||
Synopsis: | A young couple check into a hotel with their two small children. A week passes before the police make a chilling discovery. In 1999, in the suburban town of Aalst, two parents murdered their children. The ensuing high profile and dramatic trial led to much soul searching in the Belgian media. In 2005 Belgian theatre company, Victoria, dramatised the case, working from source material including statements and interviews, TV footage of the trial and a documentary on the murder investigation. Produced in theatres and festivals across Europe, Aalst has built a reputation as a powerful and complex piece of modern theatre which raises disturbing questions - questions that have no easy answer. Aalst is a production based on real events, born in Europe, re-worked, re-shaped and re-imagined for a Scottish audience by a brilliant and eclectic creative team. | |||||
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Blackden | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | Castlemilk | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays 1", Methuen, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23488 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | From His Novel | |||||
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Highland Shorts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Traverse Publishing, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41127 | |||
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Genre: | Shorts One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | George Gunn, Marjory Callander, Duncan McLean, Grace Barnes, Iain F Macleod, Gordon Urquhart, Carol I Walker | |||||
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I'd Rather Go Blind | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays 1", Methuen, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23489 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Julie Allerdyce | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Made In Scotland: An Anthology Of New Scottish Plays" Methuen, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23490 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Long Gone Lonesome | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cromarty hall, Orkney | 06 Oct 2009 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97974 | |||
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Genre: | musical seance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Created by Duncan McLean and The Lone Star Swing Band. A musical seance, to conjure up through songs and story-telling, the extraordinary life and times of the legendary Shetland musician Thomas Fraser | |||||
Synopsis: | Thomas Fraser of Burra Isle, Shetland, a fisherman and crofter, died in 1978 aged 50. During his life he recorded thousands of bluegrass songs at home using a reel-to-reel recorder. His tapes were only discovered 25 years later by his grandson who compiled and released them as the album Long Gone Lonesome Blues in 2002. The critics called it "one of the most remarkable stories in recording history" and "some of the greatest American music you will hear". Three further compilations have subsequently been released; You and My Old Guitar (2003), Treasure Untold (2005) and That Far Away Land (2008). Thomas Fraser is now acknowledged as a country music legend. The Thomas Fraser Memorial Festival is held in Burra Isle each November, and in December 2008, Thomas's life was the subject of a major BBC TV documentary Shetland Lone Star. A fifth and final posthumous CD is due for release in 2010. | |||||
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Never been in Baghdad | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61624 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Abel Neves | |||||
Synopsis: | Rogerio and Gloria have just moved flat in the city. Everything's still in boxes, but they've managed to unpack the telly, allowing them to have it on in the background while they sort out their life and belongings from the mounds of boxes. As they search for the shower attachment and try and locate the new water heater, the 2003 invasion of Iraq silently plays in the background. Those first stages of the invasion, when dolphins were used to clear the underwater mines from the ports and somehow it seemed that the war would not last long. . . | |||||
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One Sure Thing | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays 1", Methuen, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23491 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young God | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104736 | |||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.9285/103 | |||||
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Rug Comes To Shuv | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays 1", Methuen, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23492 | |||
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