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Liz Lochhead

LIZ LOCHHEAD

  (1947 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  

Liz Lochhead's plays are performed around the world and she is currently the Scottish National Poet. Described by Candia McWilliam in the Observer as "a powerful broadcaster with an intimate touch. . . [an] energetic, richly sympathetic poet", Liz travels the country, broadcasting and performing her poetry. She has a commission with the RSC where she was Writer in Residence in 1988.

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         Among Broken Hearts         Beauty And the Beards         Between the Thinks Bubble and the Speech Balloon         Big Picture, The         Blood And Ice         Britannia Rules         Bunch Of Fives, A         Carmen         Complete Alternative History Of the World, Part One         Consuming Passions         Cuba         Disgusting Objects         Dracula         Educating Agnes         Edwin Morgan's Dreams - And Other Nightmares         Fancy You Minding That         Good Things         Greeks, The         Jock Tamson's Bairns         Lochhead & Laula - Love, Love, Love         Magic Island, The         Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off         Medea         Miseryguts         Mortal Memories         Not Changed         Patter Merchant         Perfect Days         Pie Of Damocles, The         Pinball         Quelques Fleurs         Red Hot Shoes         Rehearsing La Ronde: Or What Goes Around Comes Around         Robert Burns         Rosaleen's Baby         Same Difference         Scotland Matters         Shanghaied         Silver Service         Sugar And Spite         Tartuffe         Thebans - Oedipus Jocasta Antigone         Them Through the Wall         Thon Man Moliere 'or Whit got him intae aw that bother. . .'         Three Sisters         Tickly Mince         What Goes Around         York Cycle Of Mystery Plays, The

Among Broken Hearts

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Beauty And the Beards

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Theatre Babel

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Between the Thinks Bubble and the Speech Balloon

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Mark finally knows what he wants to do with his life. He is a writer, he's committed, (mibbe he should be committed?) he's sure he's Got Something To Say. He's just not sure about this pricey poncey Creative Writing Course. Would rather use his fertile imagination to get inside the heads of various characters he sees around him. To tell their stories in their own -- or is it his own -- voices?

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play by Liz lochead with scripts by Tom Leonard, William Letford, Grace Cleary and Henry bell

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Big Picture, The

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Glasgow     1988

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Blood And Ice

Blood And Ice
On Mary Shelley

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Traverse Edinburgh, 1982

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Salamander Press, Edinburgh, 1982
Nick Hern Books, London (2009) >>>    978-1848420618

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Britannia Rules

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about a group of children growing up during WW 2

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developed from Shanghaied

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Dundee : Learning + Teaching Scotland, 2003   1859559883

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Childrens Play Youth audience

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Bunch Of Fives, A

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written with Tom Leonard, Dave Anderson, Dave McLennan And Sean Hardie

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Glasgow     1983

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selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches,    -

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Carmen

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Wildcat Theatre Production     1997

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Complete Alternative History Of the World, Part One

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Consuming Passions

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Cuba

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this play is particularly popular with school and youth groups. CUBa is set in 1962 at an all-girls grammar school at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. the story is narrated by Barbara, now grown up, and recalls how she and her friend Bernadette felt they were living on the brink of a nuclear war and were moved to form their own protest.

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BT New Connections season

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Faber and Faber, London, 1997   -

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Disgusting Objects

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Dracula

Dracula
shrugs off all those fanged Hammer spoofs and restores the real tragedy

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from novel by Bram Stoker

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Penguin, London, 1989
Nick Hern Books, London (2009) >>>    978-1848420298

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Educating Agnes

Synopsis:
works Moliere's playful rhymes into robust, clever and hilarious Scots-english

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Original Playwright - Moliere. Version of School For Wives

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Theatre Babel

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2008   978-1854595331

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Edwin Morgan's Dreams - And Other Nightmares

Synopsis:
edwin Morgans last room in a nursing home in the West end of Glasgow. everythings reduced to the barest essentials of just a bed, a wheelchair and a desk: Do you ever wonder whether a person could lead two utterly different lives without either self being aware of the other? On a dark ordinary Friday afternoon in winter, middle-aged James, the poets biographer, his friend and helper, there to do routine admin with the frail eightyseven-year old, hears this urgent question from a deeply disturbed Morgan. Who then recounts a series of vivid dreams  nightmares  which have been afflicting him. Images, poems, remembered lovers, regrets, rough trade, propositions accepted or propositions avoided, truths, desires, lives, surround this bed, a Secret Gay History of Glasgow. and James, the listener, is disturbed too, stuck there like a reluctant interpreter/psychiatrist/amateur Freudian, trapped in his task. . .

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Fancy You Minding That

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Good Things

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Susan, suddenly single and with the dreaded 5-0 glaring her in the face, has an Old Dad in his second childhood, a daughter in the throes of aggravated adolescence and an ex who, unfortunatley, still has the power to wound. . . Set in the charity shop where Susan's a volunteer, Good Things is a poignant, hilarious play with a lot to say about finding love later in life.

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Borderline Theatre

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Romantic Comedy Comedy

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Greeks, The

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Translated By David Greig, Tom McGrath, Liz Lochhead

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Tragedies Tragedy

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Jock Tamson's Bairns

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written with Gerry Mulgrew

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Glasgow     1990

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Lochhead & Laula - Love, Love, Love

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Sweet, sad, old, new, romantic, raunchy. Spoken word and soaring notes, two friends who love to sing! Feel it, hear it, taste it, love it! 'Poems which sparkle' (Scotsman). 'stunningly brilliant singer' (Telegraph).

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Assembly @ George Street (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)     2009

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Liz Lochhead & Carol Laula

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Magic Island, The

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a version of Shakespeare's play the TeMPeST for young people in which the story is told from Miranda's perspective and we learn that Prospero was a successful stage magician until his brother, manager of the empire theatre, decided to banish live performance in favour of films.

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Original Playwright - Shakespeare; Music By Stephen Neff

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Arts, London     1993

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Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

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Mary. . . uses the mythology that has grown up to surround Mary and her life to draw Dramatic and uncomfortable parallels between the sacrifices of Mary in her day and the myriad sexual, political and religious preoccupations which still inform the Scottish psyche

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Penguin, London, 1989
Nick Hern Books, London (2009) >>>   978-1848420281

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Medea

Medea
the kind of interpretation - brave, visionary, risky - that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light.

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Original Playwright - Euripides. Part of "the Greeks"

1st Produced:
Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow     2000

Organisations:
Theatre Babel

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2000   1854596020

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Miseryguts

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bitter comedy about a worldly sophisticate who cannot help telling uncomfortable truths about his fellow men - and women, with one of whom, despite himself, he is deeply and painfully in love. Lochhead transmutes the characters into media rats in present-day Scotland, injecting the zest and vigour of her own comedies - with an added layer of savage satire.

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Nick Hern Books, London, 2002   1854596802

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Mortal Memories

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Mortal Memories' is a bittersweet comedy about three quirky old characters with not a lot in common, except that they all live in the same Sheltered Housing Complex -- and someone-in-charge is determined they've to co-operate in putting on a Burns Supper. they are, all three, supposed to be, in their different ways, Burns Daft, aren't they? these days, though, Nettie's memory is proving all too mortal, and recently-widowed John finds he's flooded with ones that hurt too much. . .

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A Play, a Pie and a Pint

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Not Changed

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Imagine that there are two half-hour shows, one played out in the Ladies toilet, the other in the Gents. Imagine that each show consists of four five-minute monologues, written and performed by some of the finest theatre artists in Scotland. and then imagine that you experience each of these snippets alone, face to face with a single actor, either in a toilet cubicle, or somewhere around the wash-basins. This is the arches 15th anniversary show Spend a Penny; and it makes an extraordinary, intense and challenging 21st-century theatre experience, sometimes as rich and intimate as a private moment with a sister or best friend, sometimes as grotesque and vivid as a trip to the underworld, in a painting by Brueghel or Bosch.
Joyce McMillam, Scotsman

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part of Spend A Penny, A series of short plays based on An idea by Andy Arnold

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Patter Merchant

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Edinburgh     1989

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Perfect Days

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celebrity hairdresser deafened by ticking of her biological clock until she meets a 26 year old stranger

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1998   1854594192

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Romantic Comedy Comedy

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Pie Of Damocles, The

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written with Tom Leonard, Alisdair Gray And Jim Kelman

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Glasgow     1983

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selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches,    -

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Revue Show

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Pinball

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(Methuen theatrefile Volume 4) Methuen, London, 1985   -

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Quelques Fleurs

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Set at Christmas, as Derek travels home from the rig to Verena, his shopaholic wife, this is a play in which two sides of marriage tell their separate stories and reveal the comic but rather sad state of their relationship and their individual lives. the horror of their childless partnership is slowly and systematically revealed.

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in "Scotland Plays" Nick Hern Books, London, 1998   1854593838

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Red Hot Shoes

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selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches,    -

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Tron theatre Club Christmas Show

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Rehearsing La Ronde: Or What Goes Around Comes Around

Synopsis:
A sophisticated, new, sex-comedy taking as its model Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. End of day one of rehearsals of that play which shocked the Vienna of 1900. One older, married actor, one young, single actress. He's just missed his train. . .Cue a daisy-chain succession of paired sexual partners -- next: actor-and-his wife, wife-and-builder, builder-and-ex etc.

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part of TalkFest at the Tron 2015

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sex comedy 90 min

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Robert Burns

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.

Notes:
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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Rosaleen's Baby

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     1984

Organisations:
Scottish Youth Theatre

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-   -

Music:
-

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Same Difference

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1984

Organisations:
Wildcat Theatre Company

1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches,    -

Music:
-

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Revue Show

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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

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Shanghaied

Synopsis:
about a group of children growing up during WW 2

Notes:
a children's play, written for Boerderline theatre. expanded in 1998 for the Royal Lyceum into Britania Rules

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Short Play One act

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Silver Service

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1st Published:
Salamander Press, Edinburgh, 1984   -

Music:
-

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Sugar And Spite

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Notes:
written with MarcElla evaristi

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-    

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1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches,    -

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-

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Tartuffe

Synopsis:
Liz Lochhead's interpretation of the Moliere classic goes much further than just translation. Steeped in everyday and proverbial Scottish rhythms, the action is translated to modern day edinburgh. and in Lochhead's new creation, the masterpiece retains its classical basis and black comedy whilst retrieving the explicit political satire which bland english translations have long since eradicated.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

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1st Published:
Glasgow Third eye Centre Edinburgh Polygon 1985 (an edition of 1750)   -

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-

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Thebans - Oedipus Jocasta Antigone

Synopsis:
epic love and war stories based on Oedipus and antigone myths.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles And Euripides

1st Produced:
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival     2003

Organisations:
Theatre Babel

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2003   1854597574

Music:
-

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adaptation

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Them Through the Wall

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Kyra Dietz, music by Wagner-Regeny

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Thon Man Moliere 'or Whit got him intae aw that bother. . .'

Synopsis:
Welcome to Paris at the time of Louis XIV. Come backstage and meet the King's theatre company - a troupe of, grande dames, old hams, ingénue's and of course, their leading man. Right at the centre, author of their dramas and cause of all their troubles - Thon Man Moliere. In constant threat of debtor's prison, in big bother with church and state and - worst of all - disastrously in love with the wrong wife, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere writes brilliant comedies inspired by a desperate life. But telling the truth is a dangerous business and getting his latest drama on stage could be the death of him! Thon Man Moliere is a brand new original play about the great theatrical comedian Moliere; his scandalous marriage, his scurrilous plays and the irresistible creation of his infamous and celebrated satire Tartuffe.

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trgi-comedy

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Three Sisters

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Tickly Mince

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Tom Leonard, Alisdair Gray And Jim Kelman

1st Produced:
Glasgow     1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
selections published in True Confessions and New Cliches,    -

Music:
-

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What Goes Around

Synopsis:
It's been day one of rehearsals of La Ronde, that sophisticated, worldly, once-forbidden hundred-year-old classic, oft called 'a sexual daisy chain'. An actor and an actress, strangers till this morning, sit down together for a drink to break the ice. One thing leads to another. . .Sex? The most fun you can have without laughing. Well, when it comes to human beings, you've got to laugh. Two actors play seven characters in this sparkling contemporary sex comedy. A game of consequences and connections, a riff on modern mores and manners that'll entertain and make you think. Before you make that move? Aye mibbe!

Notes:
Adapted by Liz Lochhead from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde.

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Genre:
sex comedy

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York Cycle Of Mystery Plays, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, York     1992

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-

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5 hours in length Play/Drama

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