David Greig ist ein gefeierter Dramatiker und Regisseur, dessen Werke weltweit aufgeführt werden. Seine Stücke erforschen oft komplexe gesellschaftliche und politische Themen, betten sie in ungewöhnliche Kontexte ein und scheuen keine Formexperimente. Greigs Stil zeichnet sich durch poetische Sprache, Witz und tiefes Verständnis der menschlichen Psyche aus. Seine Theaterarbeiten bieten eine scharfsinnige Auseinandersetzung mit der gegenwärtigen Welt.
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The first ever novel by award-winning Scottish playwright David Greig, Columba's Bones recasts ninth century Scotland as the setting for a Scandi- noir-style thriller. Utterly unique, Columba's Bones explores early Christianity and paganism, philosophy, redemption and shame, violence and love, transcendence and reality.
Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do.
Európa sa odohráva na železničnej stanici, v nemenovanom pohraničnom meste, kde starí a noví Európania vytvárajú svoj príbeh o láske, strate a túžbe. V Architektovi sledujeme vzostup a pád Lea Blacka, ktorý bol kedysi idealistickým a uznávaným projektantom. Jeho veľkolepé vízie sa mu však spolu s rodinou zrazu rúcajú, ožiarené znečistenou realitou.
This volume contains the complete collection of Sarah Kane's plays, including "Blasted"; "Phaedra's Love"; "Cleansed"; "Crave"; "4.48 Psychosis"; and "Skin".
Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a Russian erotic dancer; a French UFO researcher and an Edinburgh speech therapist in search of her missing husband are brought together through an extraordinary thread of connections, which bring us into contact with both the intimate and the epic.Space odyssey meets unrequited love story as The Cosmonaut's last message… explores the incessant search for harmony and peace within all of us.