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Hamish MacDonald

HAMISH MACDONALD

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Hamish MacDonald has been involved in touring productions as producer, writer and performer in the Highlands and Islands since the mid-1980s. He has written for BBC Scotland and the Comedy Unit, including sketches for Naked Video, Velvet Cabaret & the Daily Sketch. He became a full-time writer in 1998. Published in poetry, short story and fiction, works include acclaimed novel The Gravy Star (11:9 Publishing 2001), and a novella in Scots, The Girnin' Gates (ItchyCoo 2003). Plays include Redcoats, Turncoats & Petticoats , The Captain's Collection, The Strathspey King, Seven Ages, The Heretic's Tale, Singing Far Into The Night, Slainte Mhath Mr Capone. He was the inaugural Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association 2003-06. He has also written two series for BBC Radio Scotland: an adaptation of The Captain's Collection, and the original radio version of The Strathspey King, both of which won awards at the Celtic Film & TV Festival (2000 & 2001).

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below is a list of Hamish MacDonald's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Captain's Collection, The         Factor 9         Heretic's Tale, The         Redcoats, Turncoats And Petticoats         Seven Ages, The         Singing Far into the Night         Strathspey King, The
Captain's Collection, The

Synopsis:
A potent blend of history, drama, music and humour, featuring the best of Scotland's dramatic and musical talent, The Captain's Collection tells the story of Highland composer Captain Simon Fraser. As he is transported back through his turbulent existence he is visited by the ghosts and dreams dwelling within the pages of his collection of Jacobite music and song.

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1st Produced:
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh     27 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Dogstar Theatre Compamy

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Factor 9

Synopsis:
Through personal testimony, video diaries, scientific imagery and soundscape, the play tells the story of the blood products tragedy, where many thousands of haemophiliacs and others were infected with HIV, Hepatitis and CJD through the administration of contaminated blood products. This is the greatest disaster in the history of the NHS and one which affected many countries across the world

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as part of the city's celebration as 2014 European Capital of Culture. Taken from the testimonies of Bruce Norval and Rab Mackie

1st Produced:
Profilteatern, Umea Sweden     11 Mar 2014

Organisations:
Dogstar Theatre Compamy

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Music:
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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  female voice

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Heretic's Tale, The

Synopsis:
elspeth Buchan an 18th Century heretic. She formed a cult that believed they would ascend directly to Heaven at the millennium

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1st Produced:
Strathpeffer Pavilion     2007

Organisations:
Dogstar Theatre Compamy

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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Redcoats, Turncoats And Petticoats

Synopsis:
an American agent is in pursuit of a human clone - Seannachie who has been created using Highland DNa and has second sight

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1st Produced:
-     1998

Organisations:
Dogstar Theatre Compamy

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Seven Ages, The

Synopsis:
Against a coastal Highland backdrop, comedy, tragedy and celebration follow a cast of newborn babes, fanatics, scholars, lovers, soldiers, navvy heroes, exiles and Death himself: seven acts from cradle to grave.

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Organisations:
Dogstar Theatre Compamy

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Singing Far into the Night

Synopsis:
A stylish, profound and moving play based on real lives and events. Connal MacNab, able seaman and naval boxing champion, comes home on leave to find Glasgow in the grip of political and industrial strife. When the government threaten drastic wage cuts in the armed services, the consequences are dire. British authority is shaken by an uprising within the Atlantic Fleet at Invergordon. Connal is thrown into events leading to and beyond the mutiny as the world changes beyond recognition. This play is about courage, identity, separation and loss, showing what can happen when the high hand of authority is ultimately disobeyed.

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1st Produced:
Mull Theatre, Dervaig     09 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Mull Theatre

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Strathspey King, The

Synopsis:
the life of composer and tune collecter Captain Simon Fraser

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1st Produced:
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness     24 Apr 2003

Organisations:
Dogstar Theatre Compamy

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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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