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Iain Heggie

IAIN HEGGIE

  (1953 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Julia Tyrell Management  represented by Julia Tyrrell

Iain Heggie was born in Glasgow. After many jobs and training as an actor in London he started teaching acting and in his spare time he started writing. He returned to live and write in his home town in 1987. After several years of concentrating on his 'other job' as an improvisation specialist at the Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland he has now given up teaching altogether and is writing full time. His plays include Wholly Healthy Glasgow (Royal Exchange, Royal Court, Edinburgh International Festival, Mobil Award, television), American Bagpipes (Royal Exchange, Royal Court, Mayfest, John Whiting Award), Wiping My Mothers Arse (Traverse, Fringe First), An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (Royal Exchange, Royal Lyceum), Politics In The Park (Liverpool Playhouse, Tron, Traverse), Sex Comedies (Traverse, Tron, Old Red Lion), King Of Scotland (Assembly Rooms, Scottish tour, Fringe First), and The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer (Oran Mor, Scottish tour, Assembly Rooms, Radio.).

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         Adventures Of Mummy's Boy, The         American Bagpipes         Bad Words         Bus Up the Nile         Cake         Clyde Nouveau         Commuter         Don Juan         Education of a Gentle Pervert, The         Experienced Woman Gives Advice, An         Face To Face         False Teeth         Global Warming Is Gay         Hanson         Hollywood         James VI + I         Joan Of HR         King Of Scotland, The         Lavochkin - 5         Lodger         Love Freaks         Lower Depths         Lust         Modern Dramatist         Nothing To Confess         Politics In the Park         Queen Of Lucky People         Reading Room         Road to Heaven, The         Sauchiehall Street         Scotland Matters         Sex Comedies, The         Tin Forest, The         Tin Forest, The         Tobacco Merchant's Daughter, The         Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer, The         Total Strangers         Tourist Variations         Tragic (When My Mother Married My Uncle)         Waiting for Shuggie's Ma         Wholly Healthy Glasgow, A         Wide Asleep         Wiping My Mother's Arse

Adventures Of Mummy's Boy, The

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American Bagpipes

American Bagpipes
Sandra Michigan has returned home to Glasgow from New Jersey. She wants to take her mother Rena Nauldie away with her. Her Father Willie is a blokish police constable who bellows offstage for his tea and calls his wife 'Bridget' to his but nobody else's amusement. Her brother Patrick comes home after seven years in prison and a brief stint in the south england. He wants to see if he can stay in the same room as his Father without hitting him.

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Bad Words

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Bus Up the Nile

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Cake

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Clyde Nouveau

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Commuter

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Words Beyond Words    1988

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Don Juan

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Don Juan is a man whose charm, money brains and devastating good looks make him irresistible to any woman he meets. He denies God and laughs at society, and like the Devil, has all the best tunes. But Don Juan's deeds are catching up with him. He's abandoned his first wife Elvira, who insists on seeing him at his palace. He's also murdered her father, who now accepts an invitation to dinner. Can Don Juan's faithful servant Sganarelle save him, or do the gates of hell await? Written by Iain Heggie after Moliere

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Musselburgh: Brunton Theatre    17 Apr 1998

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Theatre Babel

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adaptation

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Education of a Gentle Pervert, The

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Experienced Woman Gives Advice, An

Experienced Woman Gives Advice, An
Set in the back garden of a block of flats on two Sunday mornings, an experienced Woman Gives advice is a sharply observed comic tale of experience and innocence, insecurities and prejudices, all explored in Heggie's trademark raw and eloquent style

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Modern Comedy Comedy

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Face To Face

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Jack Howden with his funny and subversive remarks about love, death and his work colleagues, is a big hit on the internet but why does the real man not tally with his internet personna? Who exactly is Jack Howden? Face to Face is a thrilling and surprising comedy about the joys and dangers of the Internet from the writer of the hugely successful Tobacco Merchants Lawyer, which garnered nine four star reviews. "there is no one in Scotland - with the exceptions, perhaps, of Liz Lochhead and John Byrne - who write such wonderful and substantial stage comedies as Heggie." the Telegraph on 'the Tobacco Mercant's Lawyer.'

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False Teeth

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a play set in the sixties

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Global Warming Is Gay

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at saving the planet you're a slow starter. But once you get the green bug, will being drop-dead gorgeous help with the expense? See Fringe First winner Iain Heggie's biting new comedy, and prepare to be bitten.

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Off Message Theatre Company

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Hanson

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Hanson charts the public and private disintegration of a chat show host, Ross Hanson. It is an audacious re-imagining of Coriolanus, Shakespeare's tragedy of a proud man's downfall. It promises, like The Don, his disturbing adaptation of Moliere's Don Juan, to eviscerate contemporary popular culture as well as detail the self-induced destruction of an individual.

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Final Year BA (Acting Students)

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Hollywood

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a play adapted from the novel by Charles Bukowski. What happens when the movie industry tries to take a filthy alcoholic low-life to its filthy bosom. a raddled satire on a helter-skelter business

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Reading At Tristan Bates Theatre, London    26 Jan 2007

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Operating Theatre Company, London

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James VI + I

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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

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National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh    24 Apr 2014

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Joan Of HR

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a play set in a drama school!

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King Of Scotland, The

King Of Scotland, The
King of Scotland is an award-winning, dark comedy and a free adaptation of Gogol's a Diary of a Madman. Long term unemployed Tommy McMillan joins a government funded retraining scheme 'Up the Ladder'. Cited as a shining example of the government's employment policies and chosen for a media profile, Tommy is taken on by the Department of Upward Mobility. the department gets more than they bargained for when they discover just how far up the ladder Tommy is expecting to go.

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Lavochkin - 5

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Lodger

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Love Freaks

Love Freaks
this "ferociously filthy and cuttingly contemporary Drama" presents Celine Mcanespie, an employee of the Costly Coffee global empire is dragged off to a weekend training course just days before she's started her new job. Her eco-warrior boyfriend is furious with her for taking the job - partly because he's about to spend the weekend at the company's global HQ demonstrating against them. Weaving sex, intrigue, greed and protest, Love Freaks asks whether the course of true love can survive the ravages of transnational business interests.

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Original Playwright - Marivaux (Double Inconstancy)

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Tron Theatre Company

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Lower Depths

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the first Scottish version of Maxim Gorki's Lower Depths

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Lust

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Modern Dramatist

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Nothing To Confess

Nothing To Confess
, a bitter piece about violence and denial, you are the priest listening in horrified helplessness [to the character's] justifications for beating up his girlfriend
- Mark Fisher, Guardian

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part of "I Confess" A series of monologues. these monologues reflect A growing interest in the theme of confession And the subject of other people's lives in contemporary Drama And television, including the so-called reality' shows which Abound in today's programme schedules. In A live context the experience of direct one to one contact can be Alarming And exhilarating by turns. Funny, moving, disturbing And challenging, these monologues will be of interest to Actors in search of An Audition piece As well As directors on the lookout for A new And highly flexible way of making theatre.
- Hugh Hodgart, Head of Acting RSaMD

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Politics In the Park

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What do little old ladies talk about on park benches? Meet sisters Jinty and Effie, and take a peek into their world of love, sex and farting! a light comedy that gradually begins to unveil and dissect questions of social certainty.

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Queen Of Lucky People

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Taking early retirement and discovering the joys of social networking, the shine comes off Patrice French's new life when her technophobic pal Helen goes into hospital with Patrice's old laptop and is short of things to do. Iain Heggie's new comedy The Queen Of Lucky People finds human nature wanting in old familiar ways. Come and meet Patrice, Helen, a dog with a severe barking addiction, a chronically constipated, morbidly obese locksmith, a tough-talking Eastern European nurse and a middle-aged alcoholic who seems to be having an on/off relationship with Patrice's female neighbour upstairs.

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A Play A Pie & A Pint

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Reading Room

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Road to Heaven, The

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Ewan Reekie, late forties, flies in from above, tumbling. Being prodded, and soaked, terrified and ridiculed from all sides. He screams and screeches, before finally being let down gently to the ground, only to discover it is blisteringly hot. He is in hell. But Ewan can't believe he's dead. He can't remember dying or how. Then God asks to hear Ewan's life story.

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Lust for Life - Staged readings by first year BA (acting) students

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Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street
Pravda is an epic comedy - part the Front Page, part arturo Ui - in which a press baron resembling Rupert Murdoch . . . does battle with over 30 characters as he conquers Fleet Street journalism and by implication, liberal england's soul - Frank Rich, New York Times

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Comedy

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Scotland Matters

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

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

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7:84 Theatre Company

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Sex Comedies, The

Sex Comedies, The
six sleazy sketches about sexual anticipation

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Tin Forest, The

Synopsis:
The Tin Forest is the story of a crabbit wee man who dreams of a better world and decides hell just have to build it himself. Graham McLarens adaptation entices audience members (in gaggles of ten at a time) behind the walls of a magically transformed South Rotunda, on a walk through the old mans weird and wonky world. An oddball cast of lovable bampots and eccentric puppets guide brave punters through manky wee howffs and wide windswept places alike. . .

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piece adapted by Graham mcLaren with a script by Iain Heggie from the book by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson

1st Produced:
Glasgow, South Rotunda    24 Jul 2014

Organisations:
Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.

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Music:
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Genre:
A Puppet Theatre Experience

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  aerial performers

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Tin Forest, The

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1st Produced:
South Rotunda In Glasgow    -

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland

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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tobacco Merchant's Daughter, The

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Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer, The

Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer, The
Merchant City 1780. Glasgow is booming but the American war is looming and the city's wealth is dependent on the import and export of American tobacco. Will the great port survive? This pressing question is NOT addressed by enoch Dalmellington, resident of Virginia Street. He is more concerned about marrying off his dreich pious humourless daughter euphemia, being able to afford his pew at the Tron Kirk, and what to do about Mistress Zapata's scurrilous predictions about Glasgow in 2008. apparently "women will be attending university, the poor will all have water closets and his beloved Virginia Street will become a hotbed of sodomy!".

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Retrograde

1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-1408156445

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Total Strangers

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Tourist Variations

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1st Produced:
-    1989-93

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Genre:
Various drafts

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.11524/29-30

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Tragic (When My Mother Married My Uncle)

Synopsis:
a hilarious, exciting and moving one-man adaptation of Hamlet that clears away the fog and brings the great story to vivid, pulsating life.

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adaptation

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Waiting for Shuggie's Ma

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Wholly Healthy Glasgow, A

Wholly Healthy Glasgow, A
Charley and Donald''s scams at the Sparton Health Club are jeopardised by the arrival of a new instructor

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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-0413772060

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-

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Wide Asleep

Synopsis:
Iain Heggie brings his hilarious monologues and music to the Tron. there's the everyday horror of friends and neighbours such as 70 year-old serial suicidalist, Ann Marie, and middle aged Norman, who wears powder blue eye contacs to prove he is German.

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Organisations:
Open Book

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Wiping My Mother's Arse

Wiping My Mother's Arse
When Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to meet his family. Derek's mother is in a nursing home, resentful of June, the patient with no arms and legs, who gets all the attention. the only saving grace is her care assistant Larry - a camp, ageing clubber. However, what Derek and Kath don't know is that Larry holds the key to a few secrets that are perhaps best left in the closet. . .

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Organisations:
Traverse Theatre Company

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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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