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Raymond Ross

RAYMOND ROSS  (1953 - )

 Nationality:    Scottish
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below is a list of Raymond Ross's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Beautiful Gemme, The         Burns For Breakfast         Chasing Perfection         Chopin in Midcalder         Cry Witch!         Deil's Merk, The         Haunting of Billy Marshall, The         Hibs Story, The         Jock Stein Story, The         Josef         King of the Witches         Massacre of Tranent         Promised Land, A         Scots Wahi!         Shale Bairns         Sin Bin, The         Sleeping Dogs Wake         Trainers         Waiting For Baby         WARP         We Are The Hibees         Wee Magic Stane         Wojtek The Bear

Beautiful Gemme, The

Synopsis:
Scottish football

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Netherbow Arts Centre, Edinburgh    1989

Organisations:
Gallus Stage Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Gallus Stage Productions - Acc.12662/1-2

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Burns For Breakfast

Synopsis:
Robert Burns

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    1996

Organisations:
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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Gallus Stage Productions - Acc.12662/16

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Chasing Perfection

Synopsis:
Perfection - the first cloned human being

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1st Produced:
-    1998

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Chopin in Midcalder

Synopsis:
1848. The composer flees Paris for Scotland. Haunted by love, regret, anger, beauty and sadness. The Polish patriot's last nocturne. Or is he already dead? Visual, physical, kinetic theatre.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh Festival    2003

Organisations:
Theatre Objektiv

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Cry Witch!

Synopsis:
Witch hunt in the Seventeenth Century

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    1991

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Deil's Merk, The

Synopsis:
Witch persecutions in Scotland

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1995

Organisations:
Shoestring TIE

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Haunting of Billy Marshall, The

Synopsis:
King of the Galloway Gypsies

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    1991

Organisations:
Gallus Stage Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Gallus Stage Productions - Acc.12662/9-10

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Hibs Story, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1996

Organisations:
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Genre:
Epic

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Jock Stein Story, The

Synopsis:
Jock Stein Scottish football manager

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1st Produced:
Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow    1997

Organisations:
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Josef

Synopsis:
Josef is a retired Polish-Scottish shopkeeper. He is arrested for shop lifting. Josef has a dark secret

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King of the Witches

Synopsis:
King James VI and the witch hunts in North Berwick

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Massacre of Tranent

Synopsis:
The true story of the massacre of striking miners in 1791

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1st Produced:
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh    1991

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Promised Land, A

Synopsis:
Post-Holocaust, Britain continues its war against Jewish insurgents in Palestine. Rivka Feldman, Holocaust survivor, friend to Jane Haining, Scottish missionary murdered in Auschwitz, enters Scotland illegally. With a gun. Tense psychological drama

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Scottish Storytelling Centre (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)    2009

Organisations:
Theatre Objektiv

1st Published:
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Music:
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Scots Wahi!

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Merlin Theatre, Budapest, Hungary    1993

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Genre:
Satire

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Gallus Stage Productions - Acc.12662/14

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Shale Bairns

Synopsis:
The stike of shale workers in 19th Century West Lothian

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Sin Bin, The

Synopsis:
School exclusions

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Moray House College

1st Published:
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Music:
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Sleeping Dogs Wake

Synopsis:
Bikers, drugs and fire-raising

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    1997

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Black comedy

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Trainers

Synopsis:
Responsible behaviour in the classroom

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

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Waiting For Baby

Synopsis:
Fathers in the maternity waiting room

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Netherbow Arts Centre, Edinburgh    1990

Organisations:
Gallus Stage Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Gallus Stage Productions - Acc.12662/5-6

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WARP

Synopsis:
Anti-racism

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Short play

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We Are The Hibees

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
King's, Edinburgh    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Gallus Stage Productions - Acc.12662/15

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Wee Magic Stane

Synopsis:
The Stone of Destiny

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Wojtek The Bear

Synopsis:
The extraordinary story of the loveable Polish soldier bear who fought at Monte Cassino and died in Edinburgh Zoo. The story of a man who mothers a bear and how they go to war together and how they survive in post-war Britain. An emotive journey from the Soviet Gulag and Persia to the Middle East, Italy and Scotland. A story of love and loyalty, war and peace, heroism and hope. Total theatre with live music. An ensemble production written by Raymond Raszkowski Ross and directed by Corinne Harris. www.universalartsfestival.com.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2012

Organisations:
Theatre Objektiv

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
contemporary, drama

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