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    Family: Three Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Linda McLean, Iain Crichton Smith and Riccardo Galgani

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    A triptych of short plays on the theme of family, from three generations of Scottish writers.

    Acts by Riccardo Galgani: an old couple have not seen their son in years. One day he walks back into their lives, bringing with him a pictureless picture frame and a set of half-recalled memories of a time when they were happy. Maybe.

    One Good Beating by Linda McLean: a grown-up brother and sister exact revenge on their violent father by locking him in the coalshed as retribution for years of sniping, bullying and pain. But he's not defeated. Yet...

    The Visitor by Iain Crichton Smith: a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement is confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

    The triptych Family was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1999.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateMar 28, 2020
    ISBN9781788502887
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    Family: Three Plays (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Linda McLean

    Linda McLean is a Scottish playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays include the award-winning Every Five Minutes, Any Given Day, Sex & God, strangers, babies, Shimmer, Riddance, One Good Beating, Thingummy Bob, and an adaptation of Alice Munro's The View From Castle Rock for Stellar Quines and the EIBF. Linda was the Creative Fellow at Edinburgh University's Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities in 2011. She was Chair of the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland from 2008–2015, and she is an artistic associate of Magic Theatre, San Francisco. An anthology of her work, translated into French by Sarah Vermande and Blandine Pelissiér, was published in 2015 by Actes Sud-Papiers.

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