Plays 1 : Julie Allardyce, One Sure Thing, Rug Comes to Shuv, Blackden, I'd Rather Go Blind

McLean, Duncan

ISBN 10: 0413729001 / ISBN 13: 9780413729002

Published by Methuen Drama, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plays 1 : Julie Allardyce, One Sure Thing, Rug Comes to Shuv, Blackden, I'd Rather Go Blind
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413729001
• ISBN 13: 9780413729002
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Duncan McLean is one of Scotland's liveliest fiction and non-fiction writers - this is his first volume of plays



Julie Allardyce rushes into the theatre like a fresh breeze off the North Sea. It is loud and coarse-tongued and funny . . . a play which opens doors and shoves the audience through into areas of new experience' (Scotland on Sunday); Blackden: 'Something of a revelation . . . A gripping, ominous meditation on the strange disappearance of a young man in his prime, driven along by the hard, powerful lilt of McLean's Aberdeenshire Scots' (Scotland on Sunday); also included are Rug Comes to Shuv: 'nasty, brutish and hilarious . . . fast, furious and foul-mouthed, it enriches the belly laughs with unexpectedly poignant undercurrents' (The Scotsman) and two other short pieces, One Sure Thing and I'd Rather Go Blind."A magnificent writer with liberal empathy for man's dark side" (Daily Telegraph)

About the Author

"A magnificent writer with liberal empathy for man's dark side", according to the Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLean (b. Fraserburgh, Scotland, 1964) is a novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His writing career began in the 1980s with the award winning Merry Mac Fun Co, a street theatre and comedy act for whom McLean wrote songs, plays and standup routines. The company won many awards, twice nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. McLean's first book, Bucket of Tongues was published in 1992. His plays include: Aalst; Blackden; Highland Shorts; I'd Rather Go Blind; Julie Allerdyce; Long Gone Lonesome; Never Been in Baghdad; One Sure Thing; Portrait of the Artist as a Young God and Rug Comes To Shuv.