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.
Bold Girls
A sharply funny, moving play set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and celebrating women’s strength under siege.
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Edited by Philip HowardA 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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By Rona MunroA thrilling historical drama set in an uncharted period of Scottish history, with two Moorish women arriving in the dangerous world of the court of James IV.
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By Rona MunroA thrilling play about a turbulent time in Scotland's history, continuing Rona Munro's series of history plays set during the reigns of Scotland's generations of Stewart kings.
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By Rona MunroA play telling the fascinating and little-known story of Sergei Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the Soviet space programme.
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By Rona MunroA romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives.
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By Rona MunroA 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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By Elizabeth Gaskell Adapted by Rona MunroElizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays.
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By Rona MunroA gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers.
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The Indian Boy
By Rona MunroA play about the discovery of a 'wild child', examining our mythic struggles with the wilderness inside ourselves.
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The Basement Flat
By Rona MunroA short and unnerving play about families, property and rampant vegetation.
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Saturday at the Commodore
By Rona MunroA short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.
Published in volume Scot-Free
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