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Rona Munro

Rona Munro

Rona Munro is a writer who has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television.

Her plays include: James V: Katherine (Raw Material and Capital Theatres tour, 2024); Mary (Hampstead Theatre, 2022); James IV: Queen of the Fight (National Theatre of Scotland, 2022); a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (UK tour, 2019); a stage adaptation of Louis de Bernières' novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin (UK tour & West End, 2019); Scuttlers (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2015); The James Plays trilogy (National Theatre of Scotland, the Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Great Britain, 2014); Donny's Brain (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); Pandas (Traverse, 2011); Little Eagles (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2011); The Last Witch (Traverse Theatre & Edinburgh International Festival, 2009); Long Time Dead (Paines Plough & Drum Theatre Plymouth, 2006); The Indian Boy (RSC, 2006); Iron (Traverse Theatre, 2002; Royal Court, London, 2003); The Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre, 1995); and Bold Girls (7:84 and Hampstead Theatre, 1990).

She is the co-founder, with actress Fiona Knowles, of Scotland’s oldest continuously performing, small-scale touring theatre company, The Msfits. Their one-woman shows have toured every year since 1986.

Film and television work includes the Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird, Aimee and Jaguar and television dramas Rehab (directed by Antonia Bird) and BAFTA-nominated Bumping the Odds for the BBC. She has also written many other single plays for television and contributed to series including Casualty and Dr Who. Most recently, she wrote the screenplay for Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving.

She has contributed several radio plays to the Stanley Baxter Playhouse series on BBC Radio 4.

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Saturday at the Commodore

Saturday at the Commodore

By Rona Munro

A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.

Published in volume Scot-Free
    Fugue

    Fugue

    By Rona Munro

    A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.

    Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
      Your Turn to Clean the Stair

      Your Turn to Clean the Stair

      By Rona Munro

      A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.

      Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
        The Astronaut's Chair

        The Astronaut's Chair

        By Rona Munro

        Rona Munro's thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space.

        James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock

        James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock

        By Rona Munro

        The first part of The James Plays cycle, exploring the complex character of the colourful Stewart King James I – poet, lover and law-maker.

        Published in volume The James Plays
          James II: Day of the Innocents

          James II: Day of the Innocents

          By Rona Munro

          The second part of Rona Munro's The James Plays cycle, James II: Day of the Innocents depicts a violent royal playground from the perspective of the child King and his contemporaries, in a terrifying arena of sharp teeth and long knives.

          Published in volume The James Plays
            James III: The True Mirror

            James III: The True Mirror

            By Rona Munro

            The third part of Rona Munro's The James Plays cycle, James III: The True Mirror, like the King himself, is colourful and unpredictable, turning its attention to the women at the heart of the royal court.

            Published in volume The James Plays
              Scuttlers

              Scuttlers

              By Rona Munro

              A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

              The James Plays

              The James Plays

              James I, II and III

              By Rona Munro

              Rona Munro's vividly imagined historical cycle brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century.

              Bold Girls

              Bold Girls

              By Rona Munro

              A sharply funny, moving play set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and celebrating women’s strength under siege.

              Captain Corelli's Mandolin

              Captain Corelli's Mandolin (stage version)

              By Louis de Bernières Adapted by Rona Munro

              Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.

              Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

              Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (stage version)

              By Mary Shelley and Rona Munro

              A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.