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Riccardo Galgani | Linda McLean | Iain Crichton Smith

Family: three plays

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781854594389
  • Weight: 95g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Feb 1999
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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

Acts by Riccardo Galgani: an old couple have not seen their son in years. One day he walks back into their lives, bringing with him a pictureless picture frame and a set of half-recalled memories of a time when they were happy. Maybe.

One Good Beating by Linda McLean: a grown-up brother and sister exact revenge on their violent father by locking him in the coalshed as retribution for years of sniping, bullying and pain. But he's not defeated. Yet...

The Visitor by Iain Crichton Smith: a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement is confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

The triptych Family was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1999.
About Iain Crichton Smith | Linda McLean | Riccardo Galgani
Riccardo Galgani is a Scottish playwright and screenwriter, born in Glasgow in 1969. His work for the stage includes: Acts (part of the triptych Family staged by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1999); Green Field (Traverse, 2002) and The Found Man (Traverse, 2005). He was also Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Traverse between 2001 and 2002. 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. Iain Crichton Smith (1928–1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. His work for the stage includes Lazybed (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1997) and The Visitor, a short play staged as part of the triptych Family at the Traverse Theatre in 1999.