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Louise Welsh

LOUISE WELSH

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd  

Louise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room and Plague Times Trilogy. Her previous plays include The Importance of Being Alfred and Memory Cells. She has written libretti for four operas, including the Southbank Award winning Ghost Patrol and the critically acclaimed The Devil Inside (music by Stuart MacRae). Louise and Stuarts new opera Anthropocene premieres at Glasgows Theatre Royal in January 2019. Louise is also co-director (with Jude Barber) of the Empire Cafe, an award winning collective exploring Scotlands relationship with empire. Louise Welsh is Professor of Creative Writing at University of Glasgow @louisewelsh00

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

         Cutting Room, The         Devil Inside, The         Ghost Patrol         Importance Of Being Alfred, The         In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol         King Keich         Mary Queen Of Scots         Memory Cells         Panic Patterns         Tamburlaine Must Die
Cutting Room, The

Synopsis:
Rilke is a gay Glaswegian auctioneer who stumbles across a cache of disturbing pornographic photographs from the late 1940s while clearing the antique-stuffed house of a rich dead man. Do the photographs show what they seem to? Or are they an elaborate construct? Rilke s empathy towards the anonymous victim in these photographs develops into an obsession that takes him on a quest through every stratum of the city of Glasgow: a journey into the past that leads towards the present and some kind of truth.

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adapted by Tam Dean Burn from the book by Louise Welsh. The Cutting Room is Scotland's latest literary success. Inspired partly by hard-boiled American crime fiction and partly gothic literature, it is currently being translated into 12 languages and made into a feature film. It has been awarded the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger, BBC's Underground 2003 Award and shared The Saltire First Book Award. It was also nominated for the Orange Prize.

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Devil Inside, The

Synopsis:
The Devil Inside is a gritty, glittery, Faustian folktale, set firmly in the twenty-first century. Inspired by The Bottle Imp, a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, this brand-new opera echoes his most famous tale The Strange Case Of Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde. Two friends stumble upon a bottle that will change their lives, a bottle that can grant any wish. But there's a catch and the bottle demands a payment. . .Will the pair find their happy-ever-after or will the bottle be their undoing?

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Lyrics Louise Welsh. Music Stuart MacRae

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Glasgow: Theatre Royal     23 Jan 2016

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opera

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Ghost Patrol

Synopsis:
Ghost Patrol sees three people, who have been trying to escape their past, collide, uncovering a terrible secret and unleashing inevitable tragedy.

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music by Stuart McRae, lyrics by Louise Welsh

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Glasgow: Theatre Royal     06 Sep 2012

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Scottish Opera.

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Opera

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Importance Of Being Alfred, The

Synopsis:
In 1918 Hugh Pemberton Billing, MP for East Hertfordshire was sued for criminal libel by Maud Allen, a dancer. She was accused in a newspaper article of being being a lesbian German agent corrupting prominent members of society and thus undermining the war effort. Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) was one of Billing's keenest supporters.

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part ofA Play, A Pie And A Pint

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short play. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol

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A locked door that sparks an obsession so strong that the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to blur.A modern-day bar where three people who are trying to escape their past collide, uncovering a terrible secret and unleashing tragedy. Since 2009, Scottish Opera and Music theatre Wales have regularly presented productions of contemporary opera at the Traverse. This double bill brings together the creative energies of both companies for the first time, exploring the capacity of the mind to shape our lives through the potency of imagination and the overwhelming power of memories. Huw Watkins and Stuart MacRae hail from a generation who are rapidly establishing themselves amongst the leading composers in the UK. Watkins teams up with multi award-winning poet David Harsent and MacRae with acclaimed crime novelist Louise Welsh to bring these evocative tales to the stage. With players from the Orchestra of Scottish Opera. the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol are part of the Edinburgh International Festival.

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written by David Harsent & Louise Welsh. Conductor Michael Rafferty Directors Michael McCarthy (In the Locked Room), Matthew Richardson (Ghost Patrol) Designer Samal Blak

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King Keich

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It is the age of King Keich! Game show host King Keich rises to the highest position in the land bringing chaos, mayhem & mass murder in his wake. Inspired by Alfred Jarrys Ubu Roi, with an added dose of Punch and Judy, King Keich is an absurdist romp about the pursuit of power.

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60 min

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Mary Queen Of Scots

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.

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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

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National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh     24 Apr 2014

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National Theatre of Scotland

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monologue

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Memory Cells

Synopsis:
Cora has been kept in a chamber deep bellow the earth. Barry says he will lead back into the light. Is Barry her jailor, lover or father?

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70 min Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Panic Patterns

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Ornithologists Jacq and Fay are on a remote island in the far north of Scotland investigating sudden changes in bird migration patterns. Fay believes these changes signify forthcoming disaster. Jacq thinks the isolation is making her younger lover paranoid. But they were meant to leave the island three days ago, their boat home still hasn't arrived and their radio has been dead for a week. When the decommissioned lighthouse across the bay shines back into life, the two women are forced to make a crucial decision. Sometimes tender, sometimes disorientating, Panic Patterns draws on contemporary fears to create an edgy, suspenseful Drama for a new decade

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written by Award winning novelists Louise Welsh And Zoe Strachan

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part of Glasgay!

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Tamburlaine Must Die

Synopsis:
Christopher Marlowe has three days left to live. He has to confront double agents and betrayal and search for Tamburlaine who has escaped from the pages of his play.

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adapted by Kenny Miller from the book by Louise Welsh.

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