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Chris Hannan

Chris Hannan

Chris Hannan is a playwright and novelist.

His plays include Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1985; revived by the National Theatre of Scotland in its inaugural season in 2006); The Evil Doers (Bush Theatre, London, 1990; Time Out Award and Charrington London Fringe Best New Play Award); Shining Souls (Traverse, 1996, revived by the Old Vic in 1997; winner of a Scotland on Sunday Critics Award and a Lloyds Bank Playwright of the Year nomination); The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe, 2011); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (Traverse, English Touring Theatre, Coventry Belgrade, 2011) and What Shadows (Birmingham Rep, 2016).

As well as original plays, Hannan has adapted Crime and Punishment (Glasgow Citizens' Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse/Lyceum Edinburgh, 2013) and The Iliad (Lyceum Edinburgh, 2016); and also made new versions of Ibsen's The Pretenders (RSC, 1991), Gogol's Gamblers (Tricycle 1992), and Stars in the Morning Sky (Coventry Belgrade, 2012).

His 2008 novel Missy was awarded the McKitterick Prize for a debut novel.

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The God of Soho

The God of Soho

By Chris Hannan

A hectic and hilarious morality tale for the modern world.

Shining Souls

Shining Souls

By Chris Hannan

A riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.

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Elizabeth Gordon Quinn

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (National Theatre of Scotland version)

By Chris Hannan

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

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Elizabeth Gordon Quinn

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)

By Chris Hannan

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

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    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment (stage version)

    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Adapted by Chris Hannan

    An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel.

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    What Shadows

    What Shadows

    By Chris Hannan

    A searing look at identity and immigration within a bitterly divided country.

    The Evil Doers

    The Evil Doers

    By Chris Hannan

    A chaotic, violent, comic odyssey through the dismal streets of 1980s Glasgow.

    The Baby

    The Baby

    By Chris Hannan

    A modern epic set in ancient Rome, about a polyglot, violent city at the heart of a divided nation.