Nick Hern Books, 2018

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (4), Female (4), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's play Bold Girls is a drama about the harsh realities of life, particularly for women, during the Troubles in Belfast in the early 1990s. It was commissioned by 7:84 Scottish People’s Theatre and first performed at Cumbernauld...

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...The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very...

Nick Hern Books, 1995

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

...Rona Munro’s play Fugue is a psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 28 April 1983. The play's first act takes place...

Nick Hern Books, 2004

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Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Gilt is a collaboratively written play by Rona Munro, Stephen Greenhorn and Isabel Wright with a multi-stranded narrative exploring the effect money has on personal relationships. Commissioned by 7:84 Theatre Company, it was first performed...

Nick Hern Books, 2003

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro’s Iron is a psychological drama set in a women’s prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's play James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock is the first in her trilogy, The James Plays, about three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the fifteenth century. It explores the complex, colourful character of James...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (15), Female (5), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's play James II: Day of the Innocents is the second in her trilogy, The James Plays, about three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the fifteenth century. The play depicts a violent royal playground from...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's play James III: The True Mirror is the third in her trilogy, The James Plays, about three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the fifteenth century. The play, like James III himself, is colourful...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro’s play James IV: Queen of the Fight is a historical drama about the sixteenth-century Scottish monarch and his retinue. It continues the playwright’s sequence of dramas recounting an uncharted period of Scottish history, which...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (31), Female (6), Male (25), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's Little Eagles tells the true story of Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the Soviet space programme. Under the leadership of this remarkable man, the USSR trounced the Americans in the space race...

Nick Hern Books, 2006

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's Long Time Dead is a play about the camaraderie between mountaineers, exploring the risks they are willing to take in the obsessive pursuit of their dreams. The play was first performed by Paines Plough at The Drum, Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro’s play Mary is a historical drama about events surrounding Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, focussing on the diplomat James Melville, one of her most loyal servants. The play is part of the playwright’s sequence of dramas recounting...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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

...Rona Munro's Pandas is a romantic comedy thriller set in Edinburgh charting the interconnected, frustrated love lives of a group of people while touching on themes including illegal exports, the black market and Internet dating...

Nick Hern Books, 2015

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's Scuttlers is a play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester,...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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

...Rona Munro's The Astronaut's Chair is a play about the race to be the first woman in space. The second of a proposed trilogy of plays about space exploration, it followed her earlier play Little Eagles (2011), about the engineer behind...

Nick Hern Books, 2010

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

...Rona Munro's The Basement Flat is a short play for two performers, an unsettling depiction of daily life in a disturbing world not too far in the future. It was commissioned by and first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 13...

Nick Hern Books, 2006

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's The Indian Boy is a play about the discovery of a ‘wild child’ in a forest and society’s attempts to understand and control him. It was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, with the brief that it should be loosely...

Nick Hern Books, 2009

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's The Last Witch tells the story of the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in the British Isles. It is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the alleged witch of Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands, who was executed...

Nick Hern Books, 1995

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's The Maiden Stone is a play about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, on 21 April 1995 (press...

Nick Hern Books, 1995

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Rona Munro's Your Turn to Clean the Stair is a murder mystery set in the communal stairwell of an Edinburgh tenement. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 4 April 1992 and subsequently on tour. Old...