Setting the Stage

Setting the Stage

New Wave Scottish Drama of the 1970s and 1980s

Published: 2025

Pages: 346

Language: eng

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ISBN: 9781906841652

Publisher: Association for Scottish Literature

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Description

These five plays address cultural and political mythmaking, both modern and historical, in Scotland and internationally. With their fascinatingly fresh approaches to dramatic possibilities and dynamic theatricality, they do so with both shocking directness and laugh-out-loud humour. Setting the Stage is an indispensable volume for Scottish theatre and literature lovers.

The playwrights published here – Peter Arnott, Ian Brown, Jo Clifford, Sue Glover, and Rona Munro – are all key figures in modern Scottish drama. These significant playtexts each mark an important, theatrically experimental development in Scottish playwriting from the 1970s and 1980s, and are published here for the first time.

This collection, edited by Steven Cramer, distinguished former theatre editor of The List, and John Corbett, an authority on the use of Scots in literature, comprises five innovative plays by leading playwrights. a fascinating general introduction by Cramer, and author introductions to each play.