Victoria

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Bloomsbury Academic, May 11, 2000 - Drama - 181 pages

A new play for the Royal Shakespeare Company



"World's moving. People moving. We've only to cross the sea. Same sea we're looking at. The world's waiting for us. We've only to take our place it." In 1936, 1974 and 1996, a woman shapes dramatic events in a rural community on the Scottish coast, reflecting the shifting political and social fabric of Britain in the 20th century. Victoria will received its World première in London at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2000."David Greig is the most consistently interesting, prolific and artistically ambitious writer of his generation" (Scotsman)

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About the author (2000)

David Greig's plays include A Savage Reminiscence and And the Opera House Remained Unbuilt (Edinburgh Festival), Petra's Explanation (Traverse, Edinburgh), Stalinland (Edinburgh Festival - Fringe First, and Glasgow Citizens') and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Paines Plough, Lyric Hammersmith, Tron Glasgow and tour). TV: Nightlife (winner BBC Double Exposure comptition. Radio: Copper Sulphate, The Commuter.

Bibliographic information

TitleVictoria
Methuen Modern Plays Series
Methuen drama
Modern Plays
Royal Court writer series
Royal Shakespeare Company
AuthorDavid Greig
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2000
ISBN0413750906, 9780413750907
Length181 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / General
  
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