Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
Seiten
2023
Salamander Street Limited (Verlag)
978-1-914228-93-3 (ISBN)
Salamander Street Limited (Verlag)
978-1-914228-93-3 (ISBN)
An intense and riveting play set in a Perthshire country house during the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014. A retired academic and political heavyweight invites family and former students together for a dramatic reckoning.
This intense and riveting story is set in a Perthshire country house during the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014. It revolves around retired academic and political heavyweight, George Rennie and his fractured family and former students, coming together for a dramatic reckoning. There are secrets to be exposed.
Peter Arnott’s play is an exploration of a way of life which is coming to its end, a family struggling to connect in the wake of political pain, grief and the beginnings and ends of great love affairs.
A bold, funny and deeply thoughtful play about family and the forces that shaped the country we live in today.
CASTING 9 actors (5 male, 4 female)
Running time: 2 hours
This intense and riveting story is set in a Perthshire country house during the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014. It revolves around retired academic and political heavyweight, George Rennie and his fractured family and former students, coming together for a dramatic reckoning. There are secrets to be exposed.
Peter Arnott’s play is an exploration of a way of life which is coming to its end, a family struggling to connect in the wake of political pain, grief and the beginnings and ends of great love affairs.
A bold, funny and deeply thoughtful play about family and the forces that shaped the country we live in today.
CASTING 9 actors (5 male, 4 female)
Running time: 2 hours
Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter Arnott is the writer of 50 professionally produced stage plays including White Rose, The Boxer Benny Lynch, The Breathing House (TMA Best New Play 2003), Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? (Edinburgh Fringe First 2012), Janis Joplin: Full Tilt, Monarch of the Glen (CATS Award for Best New Scottish Play 2018), The Signalman (CATS award 2020). He has been Writer in Residence at the Tron, the Traverse, The National Library of Scotland, Genomics Forum and IASH at Edinburgh University. His novel, Moon Country, was published in 2015.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.08.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| ISBN-10 | 1-914228-93-6 / 1914228936 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-914228-93-3 / 9781914228933 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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