Somersaults (Oberon Modern Plays) - Softcover
James is a successful entrepreneur living the metropolitan life with a beautiful wife and a swanky London flat. But when the creditors move in and his wife moves out, James suddenly finds he’s left with nothing. Nothing but words. James’ father is dying his last connection to his childhood and the language of his birth, Scots Gaelic. With this link gone, James fears he will simply cease to exist. As the words start to slip away, he journeys home to confront his past and search for his true identity as he desperately struggles to remember the language of his birth and the word for somersault’.
A stunning new play exploring the role of language and how it defines who we are by the UK’s leading Scots Gaelic playwright Iain Finlay Macleod.
A stunning new play exploring the role of language and how it defines who we are by the UK’s leading Scots Gaelic playwright Iain Finlay Macleod.
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About the Author:
Iain Finlay Macleod has written over twenty plays that have been performed professionally, including Somersaults, The Bends, The Pearlfisher, I Was a Beautiful Day, Broke and Homers, as well as St. Kilda - the Opera, a large-scale, multi-discipline theatre piece which was shown simultaneously in five different countries in 2008 and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009. Film work includes The Inaccessible Pinnacle, which was nominated for two BAFTA writing awards. He has published four novels in the Gaelic language.
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“[A] talented, calculatedly fractured seventy-minute drama... that will continue to nag at one's mind like a word that is on the point of remembering.” – Independent
"Poetic and thought-provoking.” – The Stage
[A] talented, calculatedly fractured seventy-minute drama... that will continue to nag at one's mind like a word that is on the point of remembering.” Independent
"Poetic and thought-provoking.” The Stage
"Poetic and thought-provoking.” – The Stage
[A] talented, calculatedly fractured seventy-minute drama... that will continue to nag at one's mind like a word that is on the point of remembering.” Independent
"Poetic and thought-provoking.” The Stage
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- PublisherOberon Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1849435081
- ISBN 13 9781849435086
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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