Grae Cleugh

Scottish Widows (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Full of fun, seriously dramatic too, this collection of monologues takes you on a wondrous journey through the lives of six Scots who lose their partners but come out the other end still fighting. These are their strange, marvellous stories of sex, drugs, crown green bowls, heartbreak and a Turkish adventure!

Grae Cleugh's first play F ing Games was produced at the Royal Court Theatre and was directed by Dominic Cooke. It won him the Laurence Olivier Award for the UK's Most Promising Playwright.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783196586
• Artikelnr.: 41833860

Autorenporträt

Grae Cleugh lives and works in Glasgow where he was born and brought up. He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before becoming a playwright. Grae's first short play, Eight Nine Ten Out was shortlisted for the Soho Theatre's Westminster Prize. His first full-length play F ing Games was produced at the Royal Court in 2001 and was directed by Dominic Cooke. Grae won the Laurence Olivier Award in 2002 for the UK's Most Promising Playwright. For several years after, Grae was principally working as a professional actor. In 2009, Grae was awarded an AHRC scholarship and gained a Masters degree in playwriting at Royal Holloway, University of London. He subsequently completed a new play, Scottish Widows, which was produced at the White Bear Theatre in London in May 2014. Grae recently finished his latest play, High Risk Red, and is now writing his fourth play, Smith. Grae has been an Arts Council England Assessor for New Writing (Theatre) since 2010, and has taught playwriting at the Theatre Royal Windsor and Edinburgh Napier University.