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Rona Munro

RONA MUNRO  (1959 - )

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  


Rona was born in Aberdeen, 07 Sep 1959, and is currently Senior Playwriting Fellow for the Traverse. Credits for the Traverse include: Strawberries in January, Iron, Fugue, Your Turn to Clean the Stair. Other theatre credits include The House of Bernarda Alba (translation for Shared Experience); Snake (Hampstead Theatre); The Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre & Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; Peggy Ramsay Memorial Award Winner); Gilt (Co-Writer), Bold Girls (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award, Plays International Award, Critics Circle and Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award), Saturday Night at The Commodore (7:84); The Way to Go Home (Paines Plough! Royal Court); Piper's Cave (Paines Plough Workshop & Boilerhouse).Film credits include Ladybird Ladybird directed by Ken Loach (FilmFourlParallax Pictures Ltd); Aimee and Jaguar (Senator Film Production). For television, recent credits include Rehab (BBC2); Almost Adult (Channel 4). Rona wrote two of the plays in the latest Stanley Baxter Playhouse series for Catherine Bailey Ltd/BBC Radio 4.

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 Astronauts Chair, The         Bang And The Whimper, The         Basement Flat, The         Biggest Party In The World         Bold Girls         Bus, The         Catch A Falling Star!         Clucking Good Hen Night, A         Dirt Under The Carpet         Donny's Brain         Dust And Dreams         Fugue         Fur Coat and Magic Knickers         Ghost Story         Gilt         Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre         Haunted         Home         House Of Bernarda Alba , The         I Spy Mrs Peery         Indian Boy, The         Iron         Last Witch, The         Let's Play Murder         Little Eagles         Long Story Short         Long Time Dead         Love and Money         Maiden Stone, The         Mary Barton         Misfits - Love and Money, The         Off The Road         Pandas         Piper's Cave         Salesman, The         Saturday At The Commodore         Scotland Matters         Secrets         Secrets and Lies and DIY!         Sex and Chocolate         Snake         Stick Granny On The Roofrack         Strawberries in January         Touchwood         Walking on the Roof         Watching Waiters         Watership Down         Way To Go Home, The         Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia         Winners         Women Behaving Madly         Women On The Verge Of A T Junction         Your Turn To Clean The Stair

Astronauts Chair, The

Rona Munro
A thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space. She's the gritty, glamorous aviator; the fastest, highest, bravest woman in the world, but with one last race to go: to dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable stars. If NASA will let her - and Congress plays ball. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. . .because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one that we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win- President Kennedy, 1961.

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he Astronauts Chair, specially commissioned by the Drum Theatre, is Rona Munros second space play following Little Eagles, about the space race in Russia, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company last year

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Bang And The Whimper, The

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Stage Traffic Theatre Company    1982

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One man Show

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Basement Flat, The

Rona Munro
The Basement Flat features Fiona and Stephen, whose domestic life, if ever it was idyllic, is rapidly shading into a horror-movie nightmare. In a globally warmed london full of lush vegetation, "hot, dirty rain", creeping fungus and feral teenagers, they cower in the rented basement flat of the house they once owned but have had to sell, too frightened even to search for their teenage daughter, who seems to be living somewhere in the jungly garde.
- Joyce McMillan, Guardian

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part of The World is Too Much, Theatre for Breakfast

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Biggest Party In The World

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Bold Girls

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The dramas of everyday life in Belfast are but off-stage events in this stirring play about the lives of three women whose men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities, but where bread must still be bought between explosions. In spite of its chilling theme there are many humorous and heart-warming moments - a play about people, not politics, which offers excellent acting opportunities. Rona Munro received the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for 1991 for Bold Girls.

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1st Produced:
Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld    1990

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7:84 Theatre Company

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Bus, The

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Scottish Youth Theatre    1984

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Mystery

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Catch A Falling Star!

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Following the demise in her 50's of the world famous Scottish Rock & Roll singer Chrissie Star, former band member Jerry, doesn't answer to Marjorie, tries to reignite her own career by enlisting the help of Chrissie's older sister Chicken Farmer Helen and Chrissie's eighteen year old daughter TW. Only problem is... Helen and TW have other ideas. . .and none of them can sing!

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Howden Park Centre, Edinburgh    25 Mar 2004

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Clucking Good Hen Night, A

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Gale force winds, a river at bursting point and the feathers are flying at the Riverside Function Suite! Two Hen Nights! When events take an unexpected turn the three heroines have to fight for survival or nobody's getting married in the morning! Life, love, marriage, mothers and daughters are all swept in to the spotlight in this comedy from the award-winning duo.

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written Fiona Knowles And Rona Munro

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Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield    28 Apr 2007

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Dirt Under The Carpet

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In The Dirt Under the Carpet, cleaners Lorraine and Muriel find Mr. B, face down in a pool of his own blood, making a hell of a mess on the mushroom carpeting. Wielding squeegies, our fearless private detectives must find the killer before he finds them in this gritty Scottish thriller. "I thought dirt was what you got in the Sunday papers, I thought dust was a class A drug, I thought I knew what I was in for but I didn't have a clue. . ."

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Donny's Brain

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Donny wakes in hospital, unable to recall the car accident, confused because the love of his life, Emma, isnt at his bedside& and unable to recognise the strange woman in the room who cant stop weeping. In Rona Munros funny and poignant love story, Donny might get a second chance to follow his heart - if only his head will let him.

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Dust And Dreams

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Fugue

Rona Munro
Concerns a young woman and her alter ego. Tells the story of Kay, found in a state of shock wandering a hillside wearing only a dressing gown. A young psychiatrist tries to piece together Kay's jumbled memories, only to find unsettling parallels with her own life.

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Ghost story

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Fur Coat and Magic Knickers

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The clock is ticking... Maggie is a compulsive shopper with more cards than Hallmark. She just has to buy buy BUY! How far will she go to satisfy her obsession? Will Personal Shopper Jenny cope? Shes at breaking point anyway and she might just be forced to suffocate Maggie, with a rather fetching 100% cashmere fuchsia pink v-neck... and matching belt. But then she still has Second Hand Rose to contend with. Roses last new fashion buy was a set of thermals in 1994... Roses daughter is getting married and shes been forbidden to go anywhere near a Charity Shop. Alarm bells ring, but which one of our retail victims is about to crash the Emergency Exit?

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MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling    02 Apr 2009

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Ghost Story

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Community drama

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Gilt

Rona Munro
Gilt is the result of an innovative and possibly unique collaboration. Three of Scotland's best writers have worked together on the one play, creating seven characters whose worlds collide and interweave to create a modern mosiac about money and love. Each of the characters is traying to work out the best currency in which to conduct their dealings with the outside world. They are all guilty victims of love or money or both.

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collaboration between Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro And Isabel Wright

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Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley    02 Oct 2003

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7:84

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National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Acc.12911/127; Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 1470

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Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre

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It's the night before the election and Gordon Brown can't sleep. Tomorrow he will go before the public to finally claim victory or accept defeat. In a fitful night of dreams and memories he casts his mind across a political career that spans two decades at the top. Does he deserve to win? What's at stake if he loses? But most important, what is there left to say? Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre will be a "freewheeling exploration of contemporary politics from inside the fractured mind of a Prime Minister on verge of an electoral breakdown." The script will be written during election week to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. The play will then be performed as staged readings on 6 May itself. Eight Scottish playwrights will work together to produce the finished play which will be directed by one of the playwrights, David Greig. Joining Greig will be Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. Speaking about the project, Traverse Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill, said, "Scottish theatre has a tradition of responding through theatre to events in the political world. Gordon Brown himself was a Board member of the famous political theatre company 7:84 which created, amongst others, the masterpiece The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. I've always wanted the Traverse to sit within the immediate cultural and political life of the nation. All theatre is political in that it is about and affects us, the way we live our lives, our position in society and the world." The performances will take place at the Traverse at lunchtime on election day, and again on election night, where the Traverse Bar Cafe will screen the election results throughout.
- British Theatre Guide

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written by David Greig, Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins And David Ireland.

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guerilla theatre

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Haunted

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Annie and Kate are inseparable..wild and wacky they can't get a flat, a decent job or a man between them, but they have got each other.

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Bellshill Cultural Centre, Bellshill    19 Mar 1999

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Misfits

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Home

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48 Logie Place (Aberdeen), Scotland    21 Feb 2006

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Shared Ex

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House Of Bernarda Alba , The

Rona Munro
When Bernarda Alba's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughers to sew and be silent. "There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house." But not even the tyranny of Bernarda's repressive rule can cool the passion and desire that smoulder darkly within the household.

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Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

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The Playhouse, Oxford    20 Apr 1999

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National Theatre Of Scotland, Aberdeen International Youth Festival

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Translation

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I Spy Mrs Peery

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Ramshorn Theatre - Glasgow    1995

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Indian Boy, The

Rona Munro
A play about the discovery of a 'wild child', examining our mythic struggles with the wilderness inside ourselves. A 'wild child' is found in the last clump of woodland left on a building development. The builder, Peter, wants him out of the way. The psychologist, Julius, wants to protect him. His wife, June, wants to understand him and all the time something even wilder seems intent on escaping from the forest. The Indian Boy was written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and was inspired by the 'little changeling boy' who is the source of Oberon and Titania's quarrel in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Written in response to A Midsummer Night's Dream, [Rono Munro]'s The Indian Boy is set in An Ancient forest.

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Iron

Rona Munro
Josie is visiting her mother Fay for the first time in 15 years. She's never walked into a prison before. Fay is serving life for the murder of her husband, Josie's father. Iron is an intense psychological drama in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them. But between them lies the fact of murder. A murder Josie cannot remember and Fay has always tried to forget. Uncovering the memories they share is more dangerous than either of them can imagine.

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Nick Hern Books, London, 2002   -

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Last Witch, The

Rona Munro
Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer, a woman's apparent ability to manipulate the power of land and sea stirs suspicion. Janet Horne can cure beasts, call the wind and charm fish out of the sea. Or can she? As her refUSAl to refute their claims of sorcery incenses the local community, her magnetic allure continues to captivate and destroy. The Last Witch is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland. She was sentenced to death by burning in her home town, accused by friends and neighbours who believed she had made a pact with the devil. Rona Munro is one of Scotland's leading playwrights and The Last Witch has been specially commissioned by the Festival. Munro explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart, and vividly illustrates the destructive potential of fear in a small village.

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Let's Play Murder

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Hilarious and loving story of three women, a small girl and several motives for murder ... single parents, the Child Support Agency, wives, mistresses, small town crooks and a child from hell &

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written Fiona Knowles And Rona Munro

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MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling    Sep 1996

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Little Eagles

Rona Munro
Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin's first orbit around the Earth, Little Eagles tells the fascinating and little-known story of Sergei Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the Soviet space programme. Under Korolyov's leadership the 'little eagles' of the USSR beat the Americans in the early stages of the space race, achieving a series of firsts, including the first human in space. Rona Munro's gripping play illuminates the life and work of a brilliant engineer who struggled to meet the military demands of his ruthless political masters, whilst devoting as much time as possible to his real passion, exploring outer space.

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Long Story Short

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Written by Donald Campbell, James Graham, Tom Leonard, Aonghas Macneacoil, Ann-Marie Di Mambro, Gureet Mattu, Rona Munro, Ricky Ross And Ann Samuel.

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7:84 Theatre Company

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Long Time Dead

Rona Munro
A gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers. Grizzly, Dog and Gnome live to climb mountains. They're good at it. They're not looking for death. They love what they do and they do it to the limit. But they're climbing up to places where death is only one mistake away. Suffused with black humour, Long Time Dead is an expedition into ghosts frozen in time, immediate bonds of camaraderie and horizons yet to be discovered.

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Love and Money

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A funny and heart-warming fairy story for grown-ups, especially women! Susie is a middle-aged divorcee fed up with life. Business is bad, her daughter's deserted here and her husband's run off with the lollipop lady. In the best fairy story tradition, a mysterious stranger gives her three wishes, but as with all the best fairy stories, you have to be careful what you wish for, because it might just come true!

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Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline    21 Jun 2001

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Maiden Stone, The

Rona Munro
A wild, rumbustious mix of and fable, birth and death, extra hardship and bitter cold.

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Scottish historical play which won the Peggy Ramsay Award

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1995   -

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Mary Barton

Rona Munro
Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England. Manchester in the 1840s. By day, Mary Barton works in a dress shop making gowns for the daughters of the newly moneyed mill owners. By night, Mary aspires to join their class. As she strives to better herself, murder, intrigue and romance take over her life and the lives of those she loves. Fast-paced, epic and exciting, Mary Barton presents a panorama of Manchester life from the mill owners' new prosperity to the thoUSAnds of ordinary people living and dying in their factories.

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from the novel Mary Barton by Elizabeth Barton (1848)

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Misfits - Love and Money, The

Synopsis:
Wish on a moon, I dare you! It's midnight, Susie MacGregor is all alone chopping onions in the Blue Moon Cafe and wishing for a better life. Business is bad, her daughter's deserted her, her husband ran off with the lollipop lady. She's nothing but wishes to keep her warm. Then out of nowhere something happens that will change her life forever! Imagine if every time you said 'I wish' it came true!! What you wish for Love, Money a second chance? Think...carefully. . .

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Bellshill Cultural Centre, Bellshill    18 May 2001

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Off The Road

Synopsis:
Comparing rural and urban life

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-    1988

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Red Ladder Theatre

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Pandas

Rona Munro
A romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives. Lin Han and Jie Hui have exchanged 536 emails and 72 jpegs, though they've only just met. She's sure he's the man she could fall in love with, if only he'd do it first. But Jie Hui's a little distracted. When his business partner gets shot, things start to get very complicated  especially when he realises his heart is broken. Meanwhile, Madeleine finds herself falling for James, the most attractive man she's met in years. And the feeling seems to be mutual. It's just a pity he's the policeman questioning her about the shooting of her ex-boyfriend. . .

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romantic-comedy-thriller

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Piper's Cave

Synopsis:
landscape and character fuse in the story of a woman's metamorphosis. Set in a remote Scottish coastline we look at 24 hours during which two people struggle for survival and learn about themselves and the place of violence.

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1st Produced:
Soho Poly Theatre, London    1985

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-

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in "Plays By Women Vol.5" Methuen, London, 1986   -

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Salesman, The

Synopsis:
Daisy and her husband have a perfect marriage. After five years of bliss they are still completely unfaithful. It wasn't easy at first but fidelity can be overcome by the practice of self-control

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1st Produced:
Stage Traffic Theatre Company    1982

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-

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Currency Press, Sydney,    -

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-

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Saturday At The Commodore

Rona Munro
a very subtle tale of lesbianism so tactfully dealt with that the majority of the audience missed the point

Notes:
part of Long Stroy Short

1st Produced:
Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle Of Skye    1989

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-

1st Published:
in "Scot-Free", Hern, London, 1990   -

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-

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Monologue Play/Drama

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Scotland Matters

Synopsis:
An exploration of life in Scotland; class and culture, war and love, sex, politics and football.

Notes:
written by John Binnie, Iain Heggie, Liz Lochead, Ann-Marie Di Mambro, Gurmeet Mattu, Rona Munro And Jimmy Reid

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-    1992

Company:
7:84 Theatre Company

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-   -

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Secrets

Synopsis:
An ex-lover shows up on the doorstep of a married woman. He disappeared two years ago without warning and she has built a new life without him. His reappearance threatens to shatter her new existence and rekindle their romance. But first she wants the truth about why he left her.

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Written by Lin Weiran, adapted by Rona Munro

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A Play, a Pie and a Pint

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-   -

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short play

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Secrets and Lies and DIY!

Synopsis:
Pat has finally snapped! Her husband started to put a new kitchen sink in years ago and she's had it with washing up on the loo. Downstairs neighbour 72-year old Mary is caught between Barley White and Coffee Cream, but what is her obsession with Acrylic Matt and Gloss? Single mum Katerina thinks her job as a decorator, is her passport to independence. A DIY disaster brings together three very different women and unearths more than dry rot under the floorboards!

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The Maltings, Berwick-on-Tweed    15 Apr 2006

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Sex and Chocolate

Synopsis:
A comedy thriller about life, love, mobsters and Maltesers! Jan has just turned 50, its a holiday weekend and she is alone. Faced with defrosting the fridge she decides to go on an adventure!

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MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling    28 Apr 2000

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Snake

Synopsis:
A play in four distinct sections following the experiences of five local people whose lives are connected.

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part of A Small Drop of Ink

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Stick Granny On The Roofrack

Synopsis:
The good news. . . 'Holiday of a Lifetime', Marie won it on a scratch card. The bad news. . . 'for all the family'! The family, Katy, a teenager with attitude, Graham, once the love of Marie's life, now 15 years past his sell by date, and. . . his Mum! Take one everyday family, heat to 36 degrees, leave in hired car to cook, then stand back!

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Perth Theatre, Perth    16 Apr 2002

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Strawberries in January

Rona Munro
Do you ever wish love could be more like the movies? Francois does. A cafe bar tender - frustrated screenwriter, he uses every event in his life as inspiration. He casts Sophie, his ex-flatmate-turned-lover-turned-friend, opposite Robert - a cafe regular and university professor. Outside the city, Sophie's childhood friend Lea, runs a B & B. She's drowning in "too much fresh air and boredom". A surprising, passionate encounter provokes her to seek out Sophie for a reunion. Their stories colllide and interweave with intriguing serendipity. Strawberries in January is a biting, heart warming comedy about four romantically challenged singletons who stumble through contemporary Montreal in search for love. Originally written in Quebec French, the play won the Masque Award for Best Original Script.

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Original Playwright - Evelyne de la Cheneliere, from A literal translation by Christopher Campbell

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Touchwood

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-

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1st Produced:
Guizer Theatre Company    1984

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Childrens Youth Audience

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Walking on the Roof

Synopsis:
Nail-biting drama about a newcomer with secretsl

Notes:
written Fiona Knowles And Rona Munro

1st Produced:
Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld    27 Jun 1997

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Watching Waiters

Synopsis:
a woman escaping from depression in bedsit land

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adapted from radio play

1st Produced:
Offstage Theatre    1985

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Watership Down

Synopsis:
Join a band of rebel rabbits for the ultimate adventure! When Fiver senses danger, a small band of rabbits make a hurried escape in search of safety - a high place, where they can spot enemies for miles around. They must stick together, be quick and be cunning. But the real threat to their future is greater than a thoUSAnd enemies, and they will risk their lives confronting the terrifying General Woundwort to overcome it!

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adapted from book by Richard Adams

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Way To Go Home, The

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-

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-

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Theatre Upstairs, London    02 Dec 1987

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Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia

Synopsis:
It's election night in the Hotel Caledonia, not that anybody cares. There are two weddings on and one's descending into a fistfight. The bar's littered with exhausted politicians who can't bring themselves to watch the count, the groom's trying to decide which bridesmaid to chat up on the principle of the single transferable vote, and Mr and Mrs Scotland's attempt at a dirty weekend is descending into divorce. At the centre of it all, Svetlana - the Lithuanian receptionist - is trying to decide whether she should stay or go. Can Gavin - the assistant manager with a crush on her the size of a small Baltic Republic - persuade her that Scotland's got a future? Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia will be written in the two days prior to May 5th to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. It will be performed script in hand on the day of the election itself. Some of Scotland's most exciting writers will conjure up a cast of dreamers, ranters, visionaries and street preachers all trying to make sense of a country which just can't seem to make up its mind what it wants. Expect comedy, satire and probably a fair degree of bitterness and rage.

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written by Peter Arnott, Alan Bissett, David Greig, David Ireland, Rona Munro, Morna Pearson, Alan Wilkins

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election specia

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Winners

Synopsis:
Young women and gender issues

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-

1st Produced:
-    1987

Company:
Red Ladder Theatre

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-   -

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-

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Women Behaving Madly

Synopsis:
Ever felt mad enough to kill someone? The queue jumper, the ex who made you feel small and shabby, the council official who cuts your services then wont take your calls, the people who never listen to a word you say? Joyce, a carer, doesn't give in to those feelings, even when provoked by mad old irritating bats like Bella. Her client, Rita, doesn't either, she hasn't a bad bone in her body. But Bella does... surely a frail little old lady doesn't have it in her to be a killer? Dont dig up the shrubbery! Caring and compost in this topical and hilarious one-woman comedy from the award winning duo who brought you Women on the Verge of a T-Junction, Fur Coat & Magic Knickers and more:

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The Maltings, Berwick-on-Tweed    08 May 2010

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Women On The Verge Of A T Junction

Synopsis:
Fame, friendship and family come under the spotlight. Three women from three backgrounds and three generations who collide at a T Junction. Their lives become as entangled as their bumpers in a comic tour de force.

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1st Produced:
Playhouse, Alnwick    30 May 2003

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Your Turn To Clean The Stair

Rona Munro
About the tensions among the residents in a Edinburgh tenement. Your Turn to Clean the Stair starts as a comedic slice of life examination of the funny and dramatic tensions among of residents in a tenement block. It develops nicely into a tense whodunnit when a woman thinks she has witnessed a murder. Or has she?

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-

1st Produced:
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh    13 Sep 1992

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-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1995   -

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Play/Drama

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