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Borderline Theatre Co

2001

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Fairplay Press, Edinburgh (2008)

9781906220174

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Christopher Deans' play Another Space is a fast moving multi-character drama about the lives of young people from a variety of backgrounds. The play focuses on the various communications and identities (real and fabricated) that young people use in daily life and in the virtual environment. The title reflects a number of situations within the play: the freedom and danger of virtual contact; the struggle of an agoraphobic to leave her house; the trans-national communication made possible through the internet; and the cosmic event of a solar eclipse which frames the timeframe of the play. The play tracks the journey of numerous young people searching for new ways of being or expressing themselves. Teenage runaway Eve tries to make sense of her broken relationship with her mother by going online as a failing 40 year old mother. Her mysterious friend and co-resident in the homeless hostel, Viv, is leading a double life as a prostitute and attempting to cope with the reality of being pregnant at such a young age. Meanwhile Hannah, the agoraphobic, having been forced to leave the house due to a theft of her computer, begins to discover a real life friendship with Pip. Alongside these scene are comic interludes between virtual soul mates Monkey Boy and Monkey Girl who discover their kinship online and slowly inch towards an actual meeting. All the journeys beautifully reflect the awkwardness and exploration that form part of the teenage process of making sense of the world. The play is a challenging and varied piece that creates layered characters for a large number of young performers, tackling personal dilemmas within a complex and exciting framework."
Lorenzo Mele

Paisley Arts Centre

2005

7:84 Theatre Company

Fairplay Press, Edinburgh (2008)

9781906220143

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novel by Christopher Brookmyre

A world premiere adapted from the novel by Christopher Brookmyre. Boiling a Frog is a dark, satirical, edge-of-your seat political thriller that sweeps through the corridors of power, up to its knees in spin. Jack Parlabane, an investigative journalist not afraid to bend the law for the sake of a good story, follows his nose as it leads him into a world of sleaze, conspiracy and murder. Scathingly truthful and worryingly believable Boiling a Frog unravels the world of PR, ambitious MSPs, corruption and the Catholic Church.

Scottish Tour

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Fairplay Press, Edinburgh (2008)

9781906220167

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adaptation of The Barber of Seville

Here's a cheeky modern take on a classic of 18th century theatre that swaps the elegant interiors of Seville for down-market 21st century Benidorm. And the way Beaumarchais' densely packed language is replaced by a rip-roaring West of Scotland twang is pure dead brilliant. Based on The Barber of Seville, Christopher Deans' Cut to the Chase is aimed at youngsters. But I'll defy anyone over 20 not to enjoy the sheer pace and comedy of this show."
- Kenneth Speirs, The Mail on Sunday

Paisley Arts Centre / touring

2006

7:84 Theatre Company

Fairplay Press, Edinburgh (2008)

9781906220136

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explores the effect of the now 25-year-old "right to buy" policy and how it has transcended into family life and Scottish values in the 21st century.

Set in an unspecified Scottish town ... Christopher Deans' new work Free Fall explores the effects of the now 25 year old right to buy" policy and how it has [resulted in] . . . pensioners being evicted from their family home as a result of not maintaining mortgage payments on their ex-council house ... it will always find a forum which inspires and prompts topical discussion and Debate"
- Louisa McEwan, The Herald

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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

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about land reform

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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mct & Drill Hall's Introduction Festival

1997

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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rehearsed readings at Tron Theatre, Glasgow

2000

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Male psyche and violence in a sauna

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1998

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Fairplay Press, Edinburgh (2008)

9781906220150

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The pope is dead. The race to replace him, led by a corrupt Scottish Cardinal, is on. Christopher Deans' play Smells and Bells ... is a long, dark, bitter cry of rage against the attitude of the Catholic Church in Scotland to gay sexuality. Its thesis seems to be that the Catholic faith - with its powerful, sensuous imagery of pierced bodies, bleeding hearts, and flesh transfigured into spirit - has a way of penetrating with exceptional power, into the erotic imagination of vulnerable men, and then twisting it into a nightmare of denial, self-hatred and lies ... It's immensely potent and evocative: but what it evokes is an atmosphere dictated by those who equate gay sex with sleaze and bad endings, now and Forever.
- Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

reading by the Caird Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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