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Notes for First Time Astronauts

A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

Published in volume Me, As A Penguin

    Prickly Heat

    A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.

    Published in volume First Run

      Dead Dad Dog

      An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

      Published in volume Scot-Free

        One Fine Day

        A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.

        Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

          The Custom of the Country

          Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

          Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

            The Desert Air

            A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

            Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

              A Night in November

              The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

                Tartuffe

                By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead

                A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.

                Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

                  Unsuspecting Susan

                  A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.

                  Published in volume Singular Female Voices

                    Disco Pigs

                    Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits

                    Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

                      Harlequinade

                      A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.

                      Published in volume The Browning Version

                        Spacewang

                        A monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.

                        Published in volume The Kitchen Sink

                          Writer's Cramp

                          The debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.

                          Published in volume Scot-Free

                            The Guid Sisters

                            Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

                              Your Turn to Clean the Stair

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

                                Stones in His Pockets

                                Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.

                                  The Cavalcaders

                                  A rousing, comic play set in an old-fashioned cobbler's shop in small-town southern Ireland.

                                  Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians

                                    The Waiting List

                                    A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

                                    Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays