Showing results for "david greig"
Showing 1 - 12 of 18 Results
Adult content is visible.
- Series -
- Modern Plays
2014
EN
"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman)Europe is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "Fierce, compassionate, mightily ambitious drama...There is the sharp, analytic intelligence, the crackling inventiveness of a real writer buzzing about this gripping play." (The Scotsman)The Architect charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic a...
- Series -
- Modern Plays
2014
EN
"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman)The Architect charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolised designer, whose magnificent visions are now crumbling, along with his family, in the light of grubby reality. "Provides convincing evidence of David Greig's confident transition from a dramatist of promise to one of stature." (Indpendent)
- Series -
- NHB Modern Plays
2015
EN
From the author of The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Victoria and Pyrenees.A one-man show set in eastern Berlin in 1995, in which Flannery tells us his life story in the form of a guide to the city.David Greig's play One Way Street was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1995.
2024
EN
- Is this Paradise?- Holiday Heaven.- I remember it all being brighter, somehowEmma and Amy return to the seaside caravan park where they spent their teenage summers. Yet the park has changed, and their childhood now seems a distant memory.Two Sisters is a story about who we were when we were sixteen, who we became when we grow up, and the gap between these expectations. It opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in F...
- Series -
- NHB Modern Plays
2015
EN
A writer returning home from Palestine to his wife is gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.David Greig's short play Ramallah was first performed as a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in March 2004. It received its first production at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, as part of the triple bill From the West Bank in May 2010.
Greig Plays:1
Europe; The Architect; The Cosmonaut's Last Message...
- Book 1 -
- Contemporary Dramatists
2013
EN
The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatistsEUROPE is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "Fierce, compassionate, mightily ambitious drama...there is the sharp, analytic intelligence, the crackling inventiveness of a real writer buzzing about this gripping play" ScotsmanTHE ARCHITECT charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolise...
2016
EN
“From now on, it’s drones, baby, drones”- Robert Gates, former U.S. Defense SecretaryThree writers. Two plays. One vital tale of power, sex and infighting at the top of the Washington establishment, and its far-reaching repercussions. As Barack Obama prepares to leave office, this world premiere double bill probes behind the scenes of America’s controversial drone wars, and asks what they will mean for our future.This TuesdayIt’s 5a....
Tin Soldier
and other plays for children
2010
EN
A collection of three enchanting plays adapted from popular fairy tales and suitable for family audiences.Acclaimed playwright Noel Greig, has recreated these well-known tales for the stage with wit and imagination. All three plays have been performed throughout the UK by Tangere Arts, winning a Time Out Critics’ Choice Award.Teachers, youth theatres and amateur groups working with young performers will use this collection time and again for productions, drama classes and w...
2026
EN
A stunning illustrated children's book exploring deafness, friendship and the universal ways in which we all communicate.One girl can't hear the noisy world around her. In her ears, those sounds are sleeping. But she has found sounds that are hiding . . .Between the notes of a song.Between the beats of a wing.Between those sounds are my sounds.And I listen.What if someone in the noisy world li...
2010
EN
Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do.Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and se...
2011
EN
One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music.'You shouldn't miss this for the world . . . Rambunctiously life-affirming and touchingly beautiful.' Herald'More vibrantly alive than any piece of theatre I've seen in Scotland for years.' ScotsmanIns...
- Series -
- Modern Plays
2014
EN
"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman)Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a Russian erotic dancer; a French UFO researcher and an Edinburgh speech therapist in search of her missing husband are brought together through an extraordinary thread of connections, which bring us into contact with both the intimate a...









![Midsummer [a play with songs] - eBook by David Greig](https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/38fb5549-ea42-4e10-822f-2f4c92385af3/180/1000/False/midsummer-a-play-with-songs.jpg)

