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Sue Glover

SUE GLOVER

  (1943 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  

Sue Glover was born in Edinburgh and lives in the east Neuk of Fife. She writes for radio, television and Theatre. as well as Sacred Hearts, her Theatre work includes the Bubble Boy, the Straw Chair, Bondagers, the Seal Wife, artist Unknown, and Shetland SagA. the Traverse Theatre revived its production of Bondagers three times, and took it to London, and CanadA. Several of her plays have been translated and produced in europe and the United States. Her television work includes Homefront, the Bubble Boy, the Spaver Connection, Dear Life, Mrs Miller and MAdame Montand, and work for Take the High Road and Strathblair. Radio work includes adaptations as well as original work, the most recent an adaptation of Tove Jansson's Fair Play.

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         Artist Unknown         Bear On A Chain         Blow-Outs, Wrecks & Almanacs         Bondagers         Bubble Boy, The         Dream Plays (Scenes From A Play ILl Never Write): Catterline         Island In Largo, An         Marilyn         Sacred Hearts         Seal Wife, The         Shetland Saga         Straw Chair, The

Artist Unknown

Artist Unknown
Sue Glover's short play is an absorbing account which not only offers colourful vignettes of Mackintosh and eardley's quite different lives and styles of work but also makes cogent parallels with the work of women artists today . . .By focusing on fascinating personal details Glover abstracts individual experiences to the general, thus addressing the marginalisation of women artists with sweeping effective strokes.
- Sara Villiers, the Herald

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1st Produced:
T.a.G. (Citizens' Theatre about Glasgow)    1995

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One act

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bear On A Chain

Synopsis:
a play about alexander Selkirk: sailor, navigator, castaway, black sheep - and the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.

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a Play a Pie and a Pint

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Blow-Outs, Wrecks & Almanacs

Synopsis:
Turn of last century newspaper editor, his wife, and his printer, write up the shipping, fishing, and junketing of the east Neuk villages.

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1st Produced:
Pittenweem    2001

Organisations:
Pittenweem Arts Festival

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bondagers

Bondagers
Bondagers, winner of the LWT Plays on Stage award 1990, draws out the shadowy figures of women exploited as cheap agricultural labour in the Border country of the last century, evoking the rich sounds of a way of life, lived in servace to the gentry

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also published in 'Bondagers & the Straw Chair', Methuen

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Methuen Drama    978-0413691804

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Bubble Boy, The

Bubble Boy, The
Inside this bubble lives Tuscan, who as a baby survived an industrial accident which removed all his natural immunities, and condemned him to a sterile life as the bubble boy of the title. Now 17, he is posing enormous problems for the research team who look after him. the headlines have died away, the glamour has faded, hopes of a cure have dwindled, and the boy is now rebellious. In the short length of the play Sue Glover sketches with considerable skill many of the issues raised by the boy - industry's indifference to its casualties, news values, the compromising of ethical standards, and the responsibilities and limits of freedom.
- Trevor Griffiths, the Scotsman 1981

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Organisations:
Glasgow Theatre Club

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dream Plays (Scenes From A Play ILl Never Write): Catterline

Synopsis:
In the early 1960s, Joan eardley created a small, eccentric artists community at Catterline, an isolated village on the North-east coast of Scotland, south of Aberdeen. In these scenes from a larger work, Sue Glover gives viewers a glimpse of lesbian Jock, as she was known to at least one follower, and a pair of acolytes.

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Curated And Directed by Traverse Artistic Director, Orla O'Loughlin And Associate Artist, David Greig. theatre At breakfast is back on the menu At the Traverse. Grab A breakfast roll And A coffee, And dive into the dream world of some of the UK's most gifted writers. Writers including Janice Galloway, Sue Glover, Andrew Greig, David Ireland, Douglas Maxwell, Nicola McCartney, Johnny McKnight, Lynda Radley, Gerda Stevenson And Alan Wilkins open up their imaginations in A series of specially commissioned short new works. staged script in hand, first thing in the morning. Read About Sabrina Mahfouz, our latest Dream Plays writer, here. It's your chance to discover something completely new, so in the spirit of this, we will only Announce the next day's writer At the end of each Dream Plays performance, on our twitter feed And the news section of this website. expect the unexpected.

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Genre:
short script in hand reading

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Island In Largo, An

Synopsis:
about alexander Selkirk (the original Crusoe) and how he coped with 'civilisation' after life as a castaway

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1st Produced:
Byre Theatre, St andrews    1981

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Play/Drama

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Marilyn

Synopsis:
Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret stay at the same Hollywood Hotel. Friends - or rivals?

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Co-production: Citizens, Glasgow, & Royal Lyceum, edinburgh.

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Sacred Hearts

Sacred Hearts
Sacred Hearts is not what you expect from the title - thank God for that. It's about five prostitutes who occupy the local church to protest about their conditions, especially police indifference to the predations of a serial killer. Sue Glover's new play is based on a prostitutes' strike in Lyons in 1975, the year of the Yorkshire Ripper's first murder. . .the girls take possession of the Church, and out come the fags and the wine. they are safe, looked after by the priest and the ambivalent caretaker, "God's House belongs to everyone. Or does it? Despite the sharp Glaswegian patter, these words always sound sinister. the play reveals the precariousness of their existence and hypocrisy of society's attitudes to them, the dangers they run and the risks they take.
- Joy Hendry, the Guardian 1994

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Communicado Theatre Company

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Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Seal Wife, The

Seal Wife, The
a riveting and magical piece of theatre that takes as its premise the legend of the Silkies, a race of seals who are known to come ashore, take on human form, marry unsuspecting humans, bear them children and then go back to the sea. In Sue Glover's wonderful interpretation of this folk-story we are transported, body and soul to a fishing community steeped in such superstitions.
- the London Fringe

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Shetland Saga

Shetland Saga
When a crew of Bulgarian sailors find themselves stranded in a Shetland harbour, few can predict the skullduggery, hostility and passion set to follow.

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Nick Hern Books (24 aug 2000)   978-1854596079

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Genre:
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Straw Chair, The

Straw Chair, The
In the Straw Chair, set in the first half of the eighteenth century (1735-40), seventeen-year-old Isabel and her minister husband arrive from Edinburgh on the remote island of Hirta (St Kilda). their encounter with the island's isolated inhabitants, and especially the outspoken and fearless Rachel of Grange, will change their lives for ever.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Traverse Theatre Company

1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-0413712103

Music:
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Genre:
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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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