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Marcella Evaristi

MARCELLA EVARISTI

  (1953 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Johnson and Alcock  

MarcElla Evaristi has written extensively for the theatre, tv and radio. Her plays have been produced in theatres across the UK including the Traverse, Edinburgh, the Tron, Glasgow, the Lyric Studio, Hammersmith, and the Crucible Sheffield. She has also been a writer-in-residence at St Andrews, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Sheffield universities. BBCR4 has recently broadcast the third series of her comedy drama The Gobetweenies.

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         Breach Of the Peace         Checking Out         Commedia         Cry Wolf         Dorothy And the Bitch         Friends of Miss Dorian Gray         Hard To Get         Mouthpieces         Nightflights         Offski Variations, The         Purgatoria         Scotia's Darlings         Sugar And Spite         Terrestrtrial Extrs         Thank You For Not         This Time I Promise         Trio For Strings         Visiting Company         Wedding Belles And Green Grasses         Works, The

Breach Of the Peace

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Checking Out

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Glaswegian chambermaids in a London hotel and both coping with big city life with more zest than sense.

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Commedia

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Sheffield    1982

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Salamander Press, Edinburgh, 1983   -

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10577/19
Theatre Record Vol III (1983) Page 0236 - [Theatre: Lyric Studio - Hammersmith]

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Cry Wolf

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10365/40

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Dorothy And the Bitch

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Edinburgh    1976

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.9830/14

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Friends of Miss Dorian Gray

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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.' Oscar Wilde. In this ingenious and witty retelling of Oscar Wilde's story, two middle aged friends, Dolores and Daisy puzzle over the unblemished looks of their strangely youthful contemporary, the gorgeous Miss Dorian Gray. To the upbeat Daisy, Dorian represents the heady possibility of eternal youth without invasive surgery, but Dolores remains deeply sceptical of Dorian's explanations . . . A blackmailed scientist, a murdered painter, aesthetic theories and moral consequences - MarcElla Evaristi has deftly reassembled all the elements of the famous story into a sharply original dark comedy.

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a Play, a Pie and a Pint

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short play

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Hard To Get

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Edinburgh    1980

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Mouthpieces

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St. andrews    1980

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Nightflights

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Dundee Rep    2002

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Offski Variations, The

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Glasgow    1990

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Purgatoria

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a little group of penitents have escaped from Dante's Purgatorio and landed in the 21st century where sin has had a disorienting overhaul. It's bewildering. Human failure has a whole new vocabulary. Instead of sinfulness people have issues and therapy, pathologies and 12 step programmes. Judgemental is a term of insult here and moral relativism rules. Some things just don't change, despite the passing of time, and not everything is new for the returnees. Conscience still stabs them, and falling in love feels as confusing and divine a comedy as ever. . .

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Central School of Speech and Drama, Weber Douglas Studio, London    31 Jul 2012

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Scotia's Darlings

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Edinburgh    1978

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Sugar And Spite

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written with Liz Lochhead

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Edinburgh    1978

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Terrestrtrial Extrs

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Glasgow    1985

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Thank You For Not

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in Breach of the Peace

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London    1982

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This Time I Promise

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Trio For Strings

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in 3

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Glasgow    1987

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Visiting Company

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Glasgow    1988

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Wedding Belles And Green Grasses

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Works, The

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Edinburgh    1984

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in "Plays without Wires", Sheffield academic Press, Sheffield, 1989   -

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