Contemporary Scottish Plays Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin by Beaton, Alistair

Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472574435)

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Contemporary Scottish Plays Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin by Beaton, Alistair

Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin

$34.95
Contemporary Scottish Plays Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin by Beaton, Alistair

Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland have its anthology?'

Scotland is entering a crucial period in its history, where its identity is being debated daily, from everyday conversation to the national and international press. At the same time, its theatre is resurgent, with key Scottish playwrights, theatres and theatre companies expanding their performance vocabularies while coming to prominence in national and international contexts.

Caledonia is a tale of hubris and delusion, portraying a crucial slice of Scotland's history and its foray into imperial colonialism told with dark humour and creative flair, by award-winning playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton.

Bullet Catch, by Rob Drummond, is a unique theatrical experience exploring the world of magic, featuring mind-reading, levitation, and the most notorious finale in show business.

Morna Pearson's The Artist Man and the Mother Woman is a wickedly funny, deceptively simple, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional relationship.

Rantin', by Kieran Hurley draws on storytelling, live music and an unapologetically haphazard take on Scottish folk tradition, in an attempt to stitch together fragmented stories to reveal a botched patchwork of a nation.

First performed at the Royal Court in 2013, Narrative by Anthony Neilson is a theatrical exploration of the the boundaries and possibilities of storytelling.

Featuring plays from Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Kieran Hurley and Anthony Neilson, this collection is edited by Dr. Trish Reid, a leading critical voice on Scottish theatre.

Author: Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson
ISBN-10: 1472574435
ISBN-13: 9781472574435
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2014
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d
By Alistair Beaton
By Alistair Beaton
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Trish Reid is Deputy Head of the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, UK. She is a leading scholar of Scottish drama and performance studies and the author of Theatre and Scotland (2012) and The Theatre of Anthony Neilson (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016).

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