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Graham McLaren

GRAHAM MCLAREN

  
Nationality:    British
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Graham McLaren's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Christmas Carol, A         Demon Barber, The         In Time O' Strife         Tin Forest, The

Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
Charles Dickens' immortal tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, tormented by the ghosts of his Past, Present and very fateful Future, is brought to eerie life. Featuring a cast of haunting puppets and a set that will bring you closer to Scrooge's world than you've ever been, this unique boutique production plays this Christmas in Govan's Film City.

Notes:
adapted from book by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Film City Glasgow, Scotland    01 Dec 2011

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Demon Barber, The

Synopsis:
new version of Sweeney Todd's adventures with razors.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Perth, Scotland    2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Time O' Strife

In Time O' Strife
Graham McLaren's adaptation uses fragments of Corrie's other plays, poems and songs. Intensely physical, driven by explosive choreography and an original live soundtrack performed by leading Scottish musicians, the National theatre of Scotland's IN TIME O' STRIFE is a powerful re-imagining of Joe Corrie's rarely performed classic.

Notes:
Joe Corrie was a miner. He wrote IN TIME O' STRIFE in Cardenden, Fife in 1926, while on strike. He wrote to lift the spirits of the local community and to support the soup kitchens that were feeding the starving families. This is an intimate and fiercely emotional production about the Common Man, about workers and gaffers, about families, lovers, despair and triumph.

1st Produced:
Pathhead Hall, Kirkcaldy    02 Oct 2013

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland, produced in association with ON at Fife

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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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. . .

Notes:
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.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
A Puppet Theatre Experience

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

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