Kenny Lindsay, Andy Duffy

The Dogstone' and 'Nasty, Brutish and Short' (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presented by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse Theatre as a double-bill as part of their Debuts season, these two shorts plays take an unflinching look at the darker side of Scottish families.

In Kenny Lindsay's The Dogstone, a father and son aren't seeing eye to eye in Oban. Teenager Lorn is trying to get his life started as his Dad is throwing his away with last night's empties. He's a 'heroic drinker' who loves to tell Lorn the local legends and stories of warriors, kings and the fabled Dogstone. Just how far can his fantasies take him?

Andy Duffy's Nasty, Brutish and Short finds two brothers, Jim and Luke, holed up in a Glasgow flat. No job, no money and it looks like the only things on offer are all bad. As the options start to run out, Jim takes what isn't his and sets the two brothers on a collision course . . .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408141007
• Artikelnr.: 40885022

Autorenporträt

Kenny Lindsay is from Oban. His first full-length play The Dogstone was produced as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Debuts season at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. It is published by Methuen Drama.

Other writing includes What About Me? (Perth Youth Theatre) and Sex on the Dole (rehearsed reading at Perth Rep Theatre.

He worked as the co-ordinator of a Gaelic oral history project - 'S Math Mo Chuimhne - for the national Gaelic learner's organisation, Clì Gàidhlig, putting adult Gaelic learners and older native speakers together in order to help preserve the traditions and life stories of the latter group.

Rezensionen

'By the end, it's hard not to feel drained by these powerful but distressing cries from some very dark places.' Herald (11 November 2008)