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Rona Munro

RONA MUNRO

  (1959 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  

Rona Munro has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television including the award winning plays Iron (Traverse Theatre and Royal Court London), Bold Girls (7:84 and Hampstead Theatre) and The Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre. Other credits include The Last Witch for the Traverse and the Edinburgh International Festival, Long Time Dead for Paines Plough and the Drum Theatre Plymouth, The Indian Boy and Little Eagles for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Pandas for the Traverse in Edinburgh. She is the co-founder, with actress Fiona Knowles, of Scotland's most successful small scale touring theatre company, The Msfits. Their one woman shows have toured every year since 1986. Film and TV work includes the Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird, Aimee and Jaguar and TV DramasRehab (directed by antonia Bird) and BAFTA nominated Bumping the Odds for the BBC. She has also written many other single plays for TV and contributed to series such as Casualty and Dr Who. Most recently, she wrote the screenplay for Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving. She has contributed several radio plays to the Stanley Baxter Playhouse' series on BBC Radio 4.

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         24 Hour Plays: Heroines         Astronaut's 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         Guilty         Haunted         Home         House Of Bernarda Alba , The         I Spy Mrs Peery         Indian Boy, The         Iron         Jackie Kay         James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock         James II: Day of the Innocents         James III: The True Mirror         King's Kilt, The         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         Scuttlers         Secrets         Secrets and Lies and DIY!         Sex and Chocolate         Snake         Special, The         Stick Granny On the Roofrack         Strawberries in January         Touchwood         Tracks Of The Winter Bear         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

24 Hour Plays: Heroines

Synopsis:
In a showstopping festival finale, a handful of leading playwrights stay up all night to create short plays based on women in the headlines, written, directed and performed within 24 hours - offering a first glimpse of brand new works by some of the hottest names in theatre.

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part of 24 Hour Plays: Heroines / Women Centre Stage

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Astronaut's Chair, The

Astronaut's Chair, The
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 Astronaut's Chair, specially commissioned by the Drum theatre, is Rona Munro's 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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1st Produced:
Stage Traffic Theatre Company     1982

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Genre:
One man Show

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Basement Flat, The

Basement Flat, The
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

Synopsis:
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

Organisations:
7:84 Theatre Company

1st Published:
in "First Run 3", Hern, London, 1991   -

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Bus, The

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Scottish Youth Theatre     1984

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Genre:
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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1st Produced:
Howden Park Centre, Edinburgh     25 Mar 2004

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

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Clucking Good Hen Night, A

Synopsis:
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.

Notes:
written Fiona Knowles And Rona Munro

1st Produced:
Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield     28 Apr 2007

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comedy Drama

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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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Paines Plough and Oran Mor

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One Act

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Donny's Brain

Synopsis:
Donny wakes in hospital, unable to recall the car accident, confused because the love of his life, Emma, isn't at his bedside. . . and unable to recognise the strange woman in the room who can't stop weeping. In Rona Munro's 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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-     1986

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Fugue

Fugue
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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Genre:
Ghost story

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Fur Coat and Magic Knickers

Synopsis:
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? She's 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. Rose's last new fashion buy was a set of thermals in 1994. . . Rose's daughter is getting married and she's 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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1st Produced:
Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling     02 Apr 2009

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ghost Story

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Genre:
Community Drama

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Gilt

Gilt
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.

Notes:
collaboration between Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro And Isabel Wright

1st Produced:
Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley     02 Oct 2003

Organisations:
7:84 Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Gordon Brown: A Life in theatre

Synopsis:
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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Genre:
guerilla theatre

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Guilty

Synopsis:
A child murder. A suspect. A police inspector. An interview. Two women face each other in a small windowless room. What is revealed is the nature of innocence.

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A Play, A Pie and a Pint

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Haunted

Synopsis:
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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1st Produced:
Bellshill Cultural Centre, Bellshill     19 Mar 1999

Organisations:
Misfits

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Home

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1st Produced:
48 Logie Place (Aberdeen), Scotland     21 Feb 2006

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Shared Ex

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  15            Other:  -

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House Of Bernarda Alba , The

House Of Bernarda Alba , The
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

1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Oxford     20 Apr 1999

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National Theatre Of Scotland, Aberdeen International Youth Festival

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Genre:
Translation

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I Spy Mrs Peery

Synopsis:
A story of mystery, intrigue and suspense - more violent than a crash diet and more spine chilling than ice cubes down the back of yer nightie! Mrs Peery sees it all from behind her net curtains. She never crosses her own doorstep, but she's plenty to say about the state of her neighbours. What would she do if the big bad world got in through her nets?!

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1st Produced:
Ramshorn Theatre - Glasgow     1995

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Indian Boy, The

Indian Boy, The
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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RSC

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Iron

Iron
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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Traverse Theatre Company

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Nick Hern Books, London, 2002   -

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Jackie Kay

Synopsis:
Written by 20 of Scotland's leading writers. Directed by Joe Douglas and Catrin Evans. The Portrait Gallery will take centre-stage this spring as the National Theatre of Scotland explores their collection through the written word and performance in Dear Scotland. In this unique work, twenty of the country's leading writers will pen short, sharp monologues inspired by the Gallery's celebrated portraits which will be performed as a promenade theatre piece, staged within the galleries.

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Part of "Dear Scotland" : participants include: Peter Arnott; Jo Clifford; Rob Drummond; Janice Galloway; David Greig; Zinnie Harris; Iain Heggie; Stuart Hepburn; Jackie Kay; A L Kennedy; Hardeep Singh Kohli; Liz Lochhead; Iain Finlay Macleod; Nicola McCartney;Johnny McKnight;Linda McLean; Rona Munro; James Robertson; Ali Smith; Louise Welsh

1st Produced:
National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh     24 Apr 2014

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland

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Genre:
monologue

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James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock

Synopsis:
Bold and irreverent storytelling explores the complex character of this colourful Stewart king - a poet, a lover, a law-maker but also the product of a harsh political system. James I of Scotland was captured when he was only 13 and became King of Scots in an English prison. 18 years later he's finally delivered back home with a ransom on his head and a new English bride. He's returning to a poor nation, the royal coffers are empty and his nobles are a pack of wolves ready to tear him apart at the first sign of weakness. But James has his own ideas about how to be a king and, after 18 years, he finally has the chance to realise them. James is determined to bring the rule of law to a land riven by warring families, but that struggle will force him to make terrible choices if he is to save himself, his Queen and the crown.

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh: Festival Theatre, Scotland, Eur     10 Aug 2014

Organisations:
Nation Theatre of Scotland

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London   -

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Genre:
historical play

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Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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James II: Day of the Innocents

Synopsis:
In the second of Rona Munro's dynastical trilogy, innocent games merge with murderous intent in a violent royal playground of shifting realities and paranoia. An eight year old boy is crowned King of Scots. Soon James II is the prize in a vicious game between the country's most powerful families, for whoever has the person of the boy king, controls the state. Seen through a child's eyes, the Scottish court is a world of monsters with sharp teeth and long knives. Growing up alone, abandoned by his mother and separated from his sisters, James II is little better than a puppet. There is only one relationship he can trust, his growing friendship with another lonely boy, William, the future Earl of Douglas. The two boys cling together as they try to survive the murder and mayhem that surrounds them. But the independence and power of young adulthood brings James into an even more threatening world. He has to fight the feuding nobles who still want to control him, he has to make brutal choices about the people he loves best, he has to struggle to keep his tenuous grip on the security of the crown and on his sanity. . .while the nightmares and demons of his childhood rise up again with new and murderous intent.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh: Festival Theatre, Scotland, Eur     10 Aug 2014

Organisations:
Nation Theatre of Scotland

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London   -

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-

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James III: The True Mirror

Synopsis:
Like James III himself, the final instalment of Rona Munro's extraordinary trilogy is colourful, brash and unpredictable. It turns its eye on the women of the royal court, both lowly and high born, who prove to be its beating heart. Queen Margaret, married to James III is played by Sofie Grabol, most known to audiences as Sarah Lund in the Danish TV series, The Killing. James III of Scotland. A man who's irresistible, charismatic, a man of fashion and culture. A man with big dreams. . .and no budget to realise any of them. Obsessed with grandiose schemes that his nation can ill-afford and his restless nobles will no longer tolerate, James is loved and loathed in dangerously unstable proportions. But Scotland's future will be decided by the woman who loves him best of all, his resourceful and resilient wife, Queen Margaret of Denmark. As dreams battle brutal realities and the nation thunders dangerously close to regicide and civil war, her true love and clear vision offer the only protection that can save a fragile monarchy and rescue a struggling people. But the cost for Margaret herself may be too high.

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh: Festival Theatre, Scotland, Eur     10 Aug 2014

Organisations:
Nation Theatre of Scotland

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London   -

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-

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King's Kilt, The

Synopsis:
In 2014 an American academic finds a lost diary of Walter Scott's under the floorboards of his Edinburgh bed and breakfast. In 1822 Walter Scott himself is preparing a reluctant Scotland for the arrival of their monarch, George 4th, the first of his royal house to ever venture north of the border. . .and to greet his Scottish subjects the King must have a kilt. But getting him one becomes an almost impossible task as Edinburgh's best kilt maker flatly refuses to make it

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A Play A Pie & A Pint

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short play

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Last Witch, The

Last Witch, The
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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Traverse Theatre Company

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Let's Play Murder

Synopsis:
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 . . .

Notes:
written Fiona Knowles And Rona Munro

1st Produced:
Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling     01 Sep 1996

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Little Eagles

Little Eagles
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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RSC

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Long Story Short

Synopsis:
-

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

1st Produced:
-     1989

Organisations:
7:84 Theatre Company

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-   -

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-

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Long Time Dead

Long Time Dead
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

Synopsis:
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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-   -

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Maiden Stone, The

Maiden Stone, The
A wild, rumbustious mix of and fable, birth and death, extra hardship and bitter cold.

Notes:
Scottish historical play which won the Peggy Ramsay Award

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-

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

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Mary Barton

Mary Barton
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.

Notes:
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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1st Produced:
Bellshill Cultural Centre, Bellshill     18 May 2001

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-

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-   -

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Off the Road

Synopsis:
Comparing rural and urban life

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1988

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre

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-   -

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-

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Pandas

Pandas
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Soho Poly Theatre, London     1985

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-

1st Published:
in "Plays By Women Vol.5" Methuen, London, 1986   -

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-

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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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-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    -

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-

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Saturday At the Commodore

Saturday At the Commodore
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

Organisations:
-

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

1st Produced:
-     1992

Organisations:
7:84 Theatre Company

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-   -

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-

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Scuttlers

Scuttlers
A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It's 1885 and the streets of Manchester are crackling with energy, youth and violence. As workers pour into Ancoats to power the Industrial Revolution, 50,000 people are crammed into one square mile. The mills rumble thunderously day and night. The air is thick with smoke. Life is lived large and lived on the street. This is the world's very first industrial suburb and the young mill workers form the very first urban gangs, fighting over their territory with belts, fists and knives. Invisible in history, their lives, deaths, loves, lusts and defiant energy tell stories that will repeat and repeat over the decades that follow.

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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.

Notes:
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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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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-

1st Produced:
The Maltings, Berwick-On-Tweed     15 Apr 2006

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comedy Drama

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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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-

1st Produced:
Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling     28 Apr 2000

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comedy thrille

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Snake

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

Notes:
part of A Small Drop of Ink

1st Produced:
Hampstead Theatre, London >>>     04 Feb 1999

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Special, The

Synopsis:
A surprise delivery to an up and coming busy restaurant serves up shocks, challenges and a life-changing experience for everyone in the kitchen. Love, passion, moral choices and fine dining. An exploration of the boundaries between the mundane and the extraordinary, developed by the cast, director and writer from tales of wonder.

Notes:
in UK New Writing Tour - Classical and Contemporary Text students present three brand new works by leading Scottish-based playwrights Platform performances of three exciting and challenging new plays by Scottish-based playwrights in collaboration with Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Masters Acting and Directing students.

1st Produced:
Cockpit Theatre, London     05 Sep 2012

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-

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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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-

1st Produced:
Perth Theatre, Perth     16 Apr 2002

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Strawberries in January

Strawberries in January
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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-

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Childrens Youth Audience

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Tracks Of The Winter Bear

Synopsis:
A forest in winter. A city at night. The first fall of snow. Where do the tracks lead? What waits in the dark? Two plays. One inspiration. A seasonal tale of lovers, loners and carnivores.

Notes:
written by Rona Munro and Stephen Greenhorn

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two short plays

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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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-

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-   -

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Drama

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Watching Waiters

Synopsis:
a woman escaping from depression in bedsit land

Notes:
adapted from radio play

1st Produced:
Offstage Theatre     1985

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-

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-   -

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-

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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!

Notes:
adapted from book by Richard Adams

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Way To Go Home, The

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Theatre Upstairs, London     02 Dec 1987

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Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia

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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

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Young women and gender issues

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-     1987

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Red Ladder Theatre

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Women Behaving Madly

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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 won't 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? Don't 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

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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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Playhouse, Alnwick     30 May 2003

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Your Turn To Clean the Stair

Your Turn To Clean the Stair
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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Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh     13 Sep 1992

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1995   -

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