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Linda McLean

Linda McLean

Linda McLean is a Scottish playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays include Glory on Earth, 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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Any Given Day

Any Given Day

By Linda McLean

A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.

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Family: three plays

Family: three plays

By Riccardo Galgani, Linda McLean and Iain Crichton Smith

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

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Riddance

Riddance

By Linda McLean

A chilling emotional thriller about two men and a woman bound together by the secrets of surviving a childhood in a Glasgow tenement.

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Shimmer

Shimmer

By Linda McLean

Surrounded by rain, rivers, lochs and floods, three generations of memory and experience ebb and flow through this lyrical play.

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strangers, babies

strangers, babies

By Linda McLean

The chilling story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future that's worth living.

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Sex & God

Sex & God

By Linda McLean

Four women from different moments in the twentieth century talk across time in Linda McLean's extraordinary play about faith, lust and family.

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What Love Is

What Love Is

By Linda McLean

A short play about caring for your parents.

Published in volume Sex & God
    Glory on Earth

    Glory on Earth

    By Linda McLean

    A historical drama about the 18-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and the protestant reformer, John Knox.

    One Good Beating

    One Good Beating

    By Linda McLean

    A blackly comic short play about a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father.