Nick Hern Books, 2009

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's earliest play, Blood and Ice is a psychodrama that tells the story of Frankenstein’s creation and weaves a web of connections between Mary Shelley’s own tragic life and that of her literary monster. It was first performed...

Nick Hern Books, 2009

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (17), Female (12), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's Dracula is a stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s hugely influential novel. It was first performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, on 13 March 1985. Jonathan Harker, engaged to Mina Westerman, has come...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's Educating Agnes is a Scots-inflected adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy The School for Wives (L’Ecole des Femmes). It was first performed by Theatre Babel at Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, on 25 April...

Nick Hern Books, 2005

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (15), Female (8), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's Good Things is a bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life. It was conceived by Lochhead as a loosely thematic sequel to her earlier play Perfect Days (Traverse Theatre, 1998). Good Things was first...

Nick Hern Books, 2009

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England. The story is presented in a distinctive cabaret style...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's Miseryguts is an adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy of manners, The Misanthrope (Le Misanthrope). It was first performed on 22 March 2002 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (press night on 23 March). It followed her...

Nick Hern Books, 1999

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's play Perfect Days is a romantic comedy about a 39-year-old Glaswegian hairdresser who desperately wants to have a child. It was first performed on 7 August 1998 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's Quelques Fleurs is a short play for two performers, a portrait of a marriage, both funny and tragic. It was first performed by Nippy Sweeties Theatre Company at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, on 10 August...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's version of Molière’s comic masterpiece Tartuffe is written in a robust Scots dialect, while retaining the rhyming couplet form of the French original. It was first performed on 24 January 1986 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2003

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (13), Female (3), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's Thebans revisits the ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes, drawing together the stories of Oedipus, Jokasta and Antigone. It was first performed at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, on 2 August 2003, as part of the Edinburgh...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Liz Lochhead's play Thon Man Molière, or Whit Got Him Intae Aw That Bother is about the brilliant but self-destructive French playwright, Molière. It was first performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh on 20 May 2016...