A01=Sue Glover
Author_Sue Glover
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Product details
- ISBN 9780413712103
- Weight: 130g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 1997
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Two plays of haunting lyricism by one of Scotland's most dynamic playwrights Bondagers, winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award 1990, draws out the shadowy figures of women exploited as cheap agricultural labour in the Border country of the last century, evoking the rich sounds of a way of life, lived in servace to the gentry. In The Straw Chair, set in the first half of the eighteenth century (1735-40), seventeen-year-old Isabel and her minister husband arrive from Edinburgh on the remote island of Hirta (St Kilda). Their encounter with the island's isolated inhabitants, and especially the outspoken and fearless Rachel of Grange, will change their lives for ever.Bondagers: "One of the finest plays of the modern Scottish theatre. It is raw an drough, warm and tender, funny enough to make your heart dance and movine enough to steal it away...This is a play that everyone should see." (Scotland on Sunday) The Straw Chair "A beguiling combination of things, starting with the incredible story of Lady Grange, banished by her husband to the remoteness of St Kilda. Hung around this framework is an evocation, as light and sharp as spindrift, of the strange life on the island."
(Scotland on Sunday)
Sue Glover was born in Edinburgh and lives in Northeast Fife. She writes for radio, television and theatre. Theatre work includes The Seal Wife, The Bubble Boy, The Straw Chair and Sacred Hearts. The Bubble Boy was staged during Glasgow Tron Theatre's opening season, and later televised, winning prizes at both the New York Film and Television Festival and the Chicago International Festival. The Straw Chair opened the Traverse Theatre's 25th Anniversary season. Bondagers won first prize in London Weekend Television's Plays on Stage Awards in 1990. She was recently made a fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.
