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.
A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.
A chilling emotional thriller about two men and a woman bound together by the secrets of surviving a childhood in a G...
Surrounded by rain, rivers, lochs and floods, three generations of memory and experience ebb and flow through this ly...
The chilling story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future that's worth living.
Four women from different moments in the twentieth century talk across time in Linda McLean's extraordinary play abou...
A short play about caring for your parents.
A historical drama about the 18-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and the protestant reformer, John Knox.
A blackly comic short play about a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father.