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Alan Wilkins

ALAN WILKINS  

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Alan was brought up in Edinburgh and, after time spent in Glasgow, Poznan and Madrid, returned to the city in 1998. Since then he has worked as a drama teacher (1998-2004) and as a full4ime writer and theatre practitioner (2004-present). His first Traverse Theatre commission, The Nest, was produced at the Traverse and then toured the Highlands & Islands in 2004. Alan is also playwright-mentor for the Traverse Theatre's Young Writers' Group and represented Scotland as a tutor playwright at the 2006 Interplay festival in Lichtenstein. In the last two years he has worked as a writer/actor/collaborator on projects for ek productions, Dundee Rep Theatre, City Moves and Aldeburgh Festival, and is currently a playwright tutor for the MA Theatre Studies course at Glasgow University. Carthage Must Be Destroyed is his second Traverse commission.

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

 Can We Live With You?         Carthage Must Be Destroyed         Dream Plays (Scenes from a Play Ill Never Write): My Loneliness is Killing Me         Forfeit         Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre         Nest, The         Offshore         Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia

Can We Live With You?

Synopsis:
The brochure promises beautiful scenery, wonderful people, stress-free living and even barbeques. No wonder the MacScott family are prepared to swap Scotland for a one-way ticket to The Land of Delightful Things, especially when Mr Big Fish wants to shut them up - for good. Pursued all the way, the MacScotts travel by land and sea to reach their promised land, their utopia, their very own shangri-la. What will they find if they get there? Will the gap between expectation and reality prove too big for them or can happiness be found in the most surprising places? Watch and enjoy as this modern odyssey is related by Edinburgh's fabulous Lung Ha's Theatre Company and its cast of 40 performers. The production will feature original music performed live on stage, created through a partnership with Drake Music Scotland.

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Lung Ha's Theatre Company & Drake Music Scotland

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Piece

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Carthage Must Be Destroyed

Synopsis:
50 years after the ravages of Hannibal, the Roman Republic is doing well. That is, fine. Taxes have risen and there doesn't seem to be as much money around for wine, villas and boys with good complexions. The Senate is under pressure to make Rome rich again. Consul Cato is a practical man and knows Carthage is the solution. If the Senate hears a clamour of voices against the old enemy, order could be restored. Carthage has too much money. Carthage is stockpiling weapons. Carthage is a threat to Rome. Delenda est Carthago - Carthage Must Be Destroyed! Cato thinks Senator Gregor is just the man to put the wheels into motion. He's practiced in the art of having just enough power to guarantee privilege without ever having so much that it brings responsibility. Gregor is about to encounter the sharp end of politics. . . Set against the backdrop of the Third Punic War, Alan Wilkins' Carthage Must Be Destroyed is a compelling story of political intrigue, double dealing and the ruthless realities of taking a nation to war.

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Organisations:
Traverse Theatre Company

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2007   978-1854599858

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dream Plays (Scenes from a Play Ill Never Write): My Loneliness is Killing Me

Synopsis:
Under the direction of David Greig, there are games, flipcharts, unopened cans of ravioli and even musical accompaniment, as we discover the views of a wide selection of people today about loneliness.

Notes:
Curated And Directed by Traverse Artistic Director, Orla O'Loughlin And Associate Artist, David Greig. Theatre At breakfast is back on the menu At the Traverse. Grab A breakfast roll And A coffee, And dive into the dream world of some of the UK's most gifted writers. Writers including Janice Galloway, Sue Glover, Andrew Greig, David Ireland, Douglas Maxwell, Nicola McCartney, Johnny McKnight, Lynda Radley, Gerda Stevenson And Alan Wilkins open up their imaginations in A series of specially commissioned short new works. staged script in hand, first thing in the morning. Read About Sabrina Mahfouz, our latest Dream Plays writer, here. It's your chance to discover something completely new, so in the spirit of this, we will only Announce the next day's writer At the end of each Dream Plays performance, on our twitter feed And the news section of this website. Expect the unexpected.

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Genre:
short script in hand reading

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Forfeit

Synopsis:
In a pub halfway between Glasgow and Dundee, three women meet to try and change their futures. They may belong to different generations but all three are linked by one recent shared experience - prison. Vi, the oldest, has given the matter most thought, but the Proceeds of Crime Act has given her a deadline and a headache. She needs the help of Shona and Megan, and generally, she's used to getting her own way. She has a proposition; in less than an hour, she'll have an answer.

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a play, a pie and a pint

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Genre:
short play

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Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre

Synopsis:
It's the night before the election and Gordon Brown can't sleep. Tomorrow he will go before the public to finally claim victory or accept defeat. In a fitful night of dreams and memories he casts his mind across a political career that spans two decades at the top. Does he deserve to win? What's at stake if he loses? But most important, what is there left to say? Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre will be a "freewheeling exploration of contemporary politics from inside the fractured mind of a Prime Minister on verge of an electoral breakdown." The script will be written during election week to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. The play will then be performed as staged readings on 6 May itself. Eight Scottish playwrights will work together to produce the finished play which will be directed by one of the playwrights, David Greig. Joining Greig will be Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. Speaking about the project, Traverse Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill, said, "Scottish theatre has a tradition of responding through theatre to events in the political world. Gordon Brown himself was a Board member of the famous political theatre company 7:84 which created, amongst others, the masterpiece The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. I've always wanted the Traverse to sit within the immediate cultural and political life of the nation. All theatre is political in that it is about and affects us, the way we live our lives, our position in society and the world." The performances will take place at the Traverse at lunchtime on election day, and again on election night, where the Traverse Bar Cafe will screen the election results throughout.
- British Theatre Guide

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written by David Greig, Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins And David Ireland.

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Genre:
guerilla theatre

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Nest, The

Synopsis:
Set in the West Highlands of Scotland it takes a wry, intriguing look at conquering mountains and coping with life

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Nick Hern Books, London, 2004   -

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Offshore

Synopsis:
the story of a family who are struggling with more than just keeping their business afloat. In a small Scottish fishing community the arrival of a new couple sees relationships become strained. The scarcity of work drives people to desperation and extreme measures, resulting in truths from the past being revealed.
Alison Burns, British Theatre Guide

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Birds of Paradise Theatre Company in association with The Citizens' Theatre

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Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia

Synopsis:
It's election night in the Hotel Caledonia, not that anybody cares. There are two weddings on and one's descending into a fistfight. The bar's littered with exhausted politicians who can't bring themselves to watch the count, the groom's trying to decide which bridesmaid to chat up on the principle of the single transferable vote, and Mr and Mrs Scotland's attempt at a dirty weekend is descending into divorce. At the centre of it all, Svetlana - the Lithuanian receptionist - is trying to decide whether she should stay or go. Can Gavin - the assistant manager with a crush on her the size of a small Baltic Republic - persuade her that Scotlands got a future? Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia will be written in the two days prior to May 5th to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. It will be performed script in hand on the day of the election itself. Some of Scotland's most exciting writers will conjure up a cast of dreamers, ranters, visionaries and street preachers all trying to make sense of a country which just can't seem to make up its mind what it wants. Expect comedy, satire and probably a fair degree of bitterness and rage.

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written by Peter Arnott, Alan Bissett, David Greig, David Ireland, Rona Munro, Morna Pearson, Alan Wilkins

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Genre:
election specia

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 485

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