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Siege Perilous

SIEGE PERILOUS

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Siege Perilous is a Community Interest Company operating from Leith Edinburgh. It is a professional Theatre production company which was founded in 2000 by Artistic Director Andy Corelli and Producer Tina Finch. the company champions new writing. Its Avalon Mentorship is a comprehensive mentoring programme for talented, emerging playwrights which has the potential for their previously unseen work to be professionally staged. Unsolicited scripts are also welcome. As well as producing new work, we like to stage contemporary adaptations of classic texts.

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         Burke         Desk Job         Farmhouse, The         King Arthur         Lower Depths, The         Millennium Measure of Measure for Measure         Night Duty         One Elliot Park         Pericles         Respect         Rose Garden, The         Signs Of Life         Standing Stanes         Still         Suspicious Minds         Too Long the Heart         Turning To the Camera

Burke

Synopsis:
It may be 33 years since Elvis shuffled off his mortal coil, but his sequinned spirit lives on, making regular appearances in theatre, film and cabaret. the King haunts the latest piece of new writing brought to the stage by Edinburgh-based theatre company Siege Perilous. Suspicious Minds, by emerging writer Caroline Dunford, focuses on the tangled personalities of four friends, moving between past and present to explore the notion that who we are as adults is shaped by who we were as children. Dunford, who is a member of the Crime Writers association, has spun her yarn in the form of a mystery, and with sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and the death of a life-log Elvis fan thrown into the mix for good measure, a compelling night of theatre is on the cards.
- http://www.list.co.uk/

Notes:
written by Caroline Dunford

1st Produced:
The Grv, 37 Guthrie St,. Edinburgh Eh1 1Jg    16 Nov 2010

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Desk Job

Synopsis:
dark take on heartless bullying: over a couple of days, a foul, manipulative and abusive boss reduces an employee to a hapless wreck
- Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
written by Paul Bishop

1st Produced:
The Grv, 37 Guthrie St, Edinburgh    15 Feb 2009

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Farmhouse, The

Synopsis:
Expecting their first child, heavily pregnant Claire and her partner Anthony break down in their car near a remote farmhouse. the congenial owner, Lachlan a farmer in his sixties, comes to their rescue. But along with the help comes a bizarre offer. A tense, claustrophobic and unsettling Drama.

Notes:
written by John C Gilmour

1st Produced:
Malmaison, 1 Tower Place, Leith, Edinburgh Eh6 7Bz    12 Oct 2012

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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King Arthur

Synopsis:
This highly experimental new writing by Lucy Nordberg was showcased at a performed reading at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008 at the Bedlam theatre. King Arthur' illuminates aspects of today's big political questions, including the contradictions involved in imposing democracy on other cultures and the alienation of immigrant youth. Ambitiously, it has been written using modern English in iambic pentameter.

Notes:
written by Lucy Nordberg

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Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lower Depths, The

Synopsis:
An adaptation of Gorkys The Lower Depths incorporating live music, choral overtures and a nod to Russian folk-dancing. With sound and light piercing through the dark dank flophouse, this classic play gives a glimpse of the life that dehumanised social derelicts are forced to endure.

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1st Produced:
Hidden door, Edinburgh    22 May 2015

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Millennium Measure of Measure for Measure

Synopsis:
This adaptation is a fast-paced concoction of sharp suits, sex and satire wrapped up in a biting soundtrack. Business leaders, management consultants and all who work with them and for them, take note.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2000

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Genre:
90 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Night Duty

Synopsis:
set in a mental hospital where the inmates are involved in therapeutic re-enactments of contemporary politics
- Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
written by Mark Russell

1st Produced:
The Grv, 37 Guthrie St, Edinburgh    15 Feb 2009

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Genre:
One Act dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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One Elliot Park

Synopsis:
Chloe lives at One Elliot Park. Her neighbours in the block of flats are Debs, Douglas & Mark. the neighbours have reported a burglary so the police are investigating. Chloe is the main suspect; but nothing was stolen. Is Chloe trying to get information on her neighbours? Are her neighbours conspiring against her? Do we really know who our neighbours are? What goes on behind closed doors? Is there a truth in your reality?

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written by Lindsay Miller

1st Produced:
Malmaison, 1 Tower Place, Leith, Edinburgh Eh6 7Bz    14 Jun 2012

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Genre:
60 min piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pericles

Synopsis:
Join Shakespeare's time-travelling Prince on his fantastical voyages, energetically and movingly expressed with pulsating music, slick dance moves, one brothel and a game show! A sensory experience. Bad child? Worse father? You decide.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Sweet Eca, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    03 Aug 2007

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Genre:
75 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  with doubling

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Respect

Synopsis:
a dark, disturbing thriller which reflects on how the excitement of a one-night stand can so easily and quickly twist in the sobering reality of daylight.

Notes:
written by Anita Gallo

1st Produced:
The Grv, Edinburgh    23 Jun 2009

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Genre:
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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rose Garden, The

Synopsis:
Michael is a writer. Possibly a great writer. But he can't remember much since Dilys ran him over. Dilys thinks Michael is an angel sent to save her son. and Rosie tells him she's his daughter. But every time Michael thinks his memory's returning, characters from his books appear for one last adventure to save them all.

Notes:
written by Simon Jackson. Shortlisted for Eileen Eckhart Award 2009 (Canada) And the Diana Raffles New theatre Publlications Award 2010 (UK).

1st Produced:
Grv Studio, Edinburgh    Aug 2010

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1st Published:
the Play Depot, 2009   978-1-894910-93-4

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Signs Of Life

Synopsis:
Signs of Life' is a playful, philosophical meditation on the effects of isolation on two astronauts as they carry out a series of psychological tests. In a new land are we the same, do we belong together, is our concept of life too narrow, do you need a body to be conscious? Adam and Christopher may be going insane, may only have each other or may have made contact with the soul of the universe.

Notes:
written by Cormac Quinn in a collaborative partnership with Andy Corelli called CorCor! theatre.

1st Produced:
Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow    25 Jun 2008

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Genre:
35 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Standing Stanes

Synopsis:
Standing Stanes' is a wry political comedy. It centres on a young man who, fired with entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to improve his community, endures a tireless journey as he comes face-to-face with the bureaucracy of larger-than-life, verging on cartoonesque officials. Set in the 1980s when it was originally penned, it has a charming retro appeal. there are many similarities between the UK political and economic landscape at that time and today; recession, austerity, unemployment, a Tory (led) Government. the play also talks of the Cold War between the East and West and though that no longer exists, there is a potential battle looming in the UK between North and South as the country debates the issue of Scottish independence.

Notes:
written by Robert Ballantine

1st Produced:
Malmaison, 1 Tower Place, Leith, Edinburgh Eh6 7Bz    03 May 2012

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Genre:
60 min piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Still

Synopsis:
Still' is a heartbreaking Drama about the memories that make us and the lines that divide us. Ach and Agus are together, trapped in a place they don't know, needing each other to help define who they are - but as they remember, as they build a picture of the past, the boundaries between love and hate, injustice and revenge, victim and perpetrator, threaten their existence.

Notes:
written by Cormac Quinn in a collaborative partnership with Andy Corelli called CorCor! theatre.

1st Produced:
Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow    25 Jun 2008

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Genre:
35 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Suspicious Minds

Synopsis:
On one level, Suspicious Minds' is a murder mystery about the death of a life-long Elvis fan. Deeper though, it shows how who we are as adults is shaped by who we were as children.

Notes:
written by Caroline Dunford

1st Produced:
Edinburgh: Grv    25 May 2010

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Too Long the Heart

Synopsis:
a Drama set in the aftermath of the Irish Troubles. A mans fishing holiday in County Cork is shattered when he is abducted and taken hostage. But there is confusion  do they have the right man? What past wrong is fuelling his captors thirst for revenge? Forgive and forget?

Notes:
written by David Hutchinson

1st Produced:
Malmaison, 1 Tower Place, Leith, Edinburgh Eh6 7Bz    21 Feb 2013

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Genre:
75 min one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Turning To the Camera

Synopsis:
a tightly-written fact-based thriller originally based on the true account of defenestration of the ex-head of Egypt's secret service in London. A paparazzo claims to have witnessed a terrifying murder. As he is being interrogated about his version of events, you glimpse into the state of his mind through filmic elements projected on giant screens. Did he witness an act of terrorism? Is he involved? Or is he just a fantasist?

Notes:
written by Simon Jackson

1st Produced:
Unit Le2, Ocean Terminal, Ocean Drive, Leith, Edinburgh Eh6 6Jj    28 Nov 2011

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Genre:
noir thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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