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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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Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

By Rona Munro

Two plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.

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
    Strawberries in January

    Strawberries in January

    By Evelyne de la Chenelière Translated by Rona Munro

    A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.

    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.

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    Scottish Shorts

    Scottish Shorts

    Edited by Philip Howard

    A collection of nine very different short plays by three remarkable generations of Scottish writers, ideal performance in studio theatres and at festivals.

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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.

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      Pandas

      Pandas

      By Rona Munro

      A romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives.

      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.

      Mary Barton

      Mary Barton (stage version)

      By Elizabeth Gaskell Adapted by Rona Munro

      Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays.

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      Mary

      Mary

      By Rona Munro

      A political thriller for the stage, set in the 1560s and portraying events around Mary Stuart, the troubled Queen of Scots. Part of Rona Munro's breathtaking theatrical exploration of Scottish history.

      The Maiden Stone

      The Maiden Stone

      By Rona Munro

      A wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.

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      Long Time Dead

      Long Time Dead

      By Rona Munro

      A gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers.