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Scottish Literature since 1945 (Drama)

Anthologies

A Decade’s Drama (Todmorden: Woodhouse, 1980), [plays of the 1970s].

Scot-Free, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern, 1990), [plays of the 1980s].

Made In Scotland, eds. Ian Brown and Mark Fisher, (London: Methuen, 1994), [plays of the 1990s].

Plays of the Seventies, ed. Bill Findlay, (Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1998).

Scotland Plays, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern, 1998), [Traverse plays of the 1990s].

Twentieth-century Scottish Drama: an anthology, eds. Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001).

Willaim Boyd

Edition

School Ties (London: Hamilton, 1985).

George Mackay Brown

Editions

A Spell for Green Corn (London: Hogarth Press, 1970).

Three Plays (London: Chatto & Windus, 1984).

The Loom of Light (Nairn: Balnain, 1986).

A Celebration for Magnus (Narin: Balnain, 1987).

Bill Bryden

Editions

Willie Rough (Edinburgh: Southside, 1972).

Benny Lynch: Scenes from a Short Life (Edinburgh: Southside, 1975).

Old Movies (London: Heinemann, 1976).

Il Campiello: A Venetian Comedy by Carlo Goldoni, with Susanna Graham-Jones (London: Heinemann, 1976).

The Big Picnic, Theatre Scotland 3(10) (Edinburgh: Theatre Scotland, 1994).

John Byrne

Editions

The Government Inspector (London: Oberon Books, 1997).

Colquhoun and MacBryde (London: Faber & Faber, 1992).

Tutti Frutti (London: BBC, 1987).

The Slab Boys Trilogy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987).

Cutting a Rug (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982).

Still Life (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982).

Alisdair Campbell

Edition

Tri Dealbhan Cluiche (Skye: Clo Ostaig, 1990).

Donald Campbell

Editions

See also Poetry lists:

The Jesuit (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1976).

Somerville the Soldier (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1978).

The Widows of Clyth (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1979).

John Clifford

Editions

Night in the Village (London: Nick Hern, 1991).

Losing Venice in Scot-free: new Scottish plays, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990).

Innes de Castro in First Run: new plays by new writers, ed. Kate Harwood, (London: Nick Hern, 1989).

Mike Cullen

Edition

Anna Weiss (London: Nick Hern, 1997).

Catherine Lucy Czerkawska

Edition

Wormwood in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).

Andrew Dallmeyer

Edition

The Boys in the Backroom (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1982).

Anne Marie di Mambro

Edition

Brothers of Thunder in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).

Chris Dolan

Editions

Sabina! (London: Faber & Faber, 1998).

The Angel’s Share (Ayr: Borderline, 2000).

Simon Donald

Editions

The Life of Stuff in Theatre Scotland 1(2) (Edinburgh: Theatre Scotland, 1992).

Prickly Heat in First Run: new plays by new writers, ed. Kate Harwood, (London: Nick Hern, 1989).

Bill Douglas

Edition

Comrades (London: Faber, 1987).

Bill Dunlop

Edition

Female Wits (Belfast: Canto, 1990).

Douglas Dunn

Edition

Andromaque by Racine (London: Faber, 1990).

James Duthie

Edition

Donal and Sally (London: Eyre-Methuen, 1978).

Marcella Evaristi

Editions

Mouthpieces (St. Andrews: Crawford Centre for the Arts, 1980).

Commedia (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1983).

Ronald Frame

Edition

Paris; with Privateers (London: Faber, 1987).

Tom Gallacher

Editions

Revival!; and, Shellenbrack (Glasgow: Molendinar, 1978).

Natural Causes: A Mystery Thriller in Two Acts (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1980).

Jenny (London: French, 1980).

The Only Street: A Play in Two Acts (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1981).

Our Kindness to Five Persons (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1981).

The Sea Change (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1981).

Robert Garioch

Editions

The Masque of Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Macdonald, 1954).

George Buchanan: Jephthah and the Baptist, Translatit frae Latin in Scots (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959).

Sue Glover

Editions

Shetland Saga (London: Nick Hern, 2000).

Bondagers and The Straw Chair (London: Methuen, 1997).

Stephen Greenhorn

Edition

Passing Places in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).

David Greig

Editions

Victoria (London: Methuen, 2000).

The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (London: Methuen, 1999).

Danny 306 + Me (4 Ever) (Edinburgh: Traverse, 1999).

The Speculator, The Speculator and The Meeting (London: Methuen, 1999).

Europe and The Architect (London: Methuen, 1996).

One Way Street in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).

George Gunn

Editions

Songs of the grey coast; The gold of Kildonan (Edinburgh: Chapman, 1992).

Whins (Edinburgh: Chapman, 1996).

Chris Hannan

Editions

Shinning Souls (London: Nick Hern, 1996).

The Evil Doers and The Baby (London: Nick Hern, 1991).

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn in Scot-free: new Scottish plays, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990).

David Harrower

Editions

Kill the Old Torture their Young (London: Methuen, 1998).

Knives in Hens (London: Methuen, 1995).

Iain Heggie

Editions

An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (London: Methuen, 1995).

A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (London: Methuen, 1988).

American Bagpipes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989).

James Kelman

Edition

Hardie and Baird, and Other Plays (London: Secker & Warburg, 1991).

Robert Kemp

Editions

A Trump for Jerico (Edinburgh: St Giles Press, 1948).

The Satire of the Three Estates, Adapted from the play by Sir David Lindsay (Edinburgh: Scots Review, 1949).

The Saxon Saint (Edinburgh: St Giles Press, 1950).

The King of Scots (Edinburgh: St Giles Press, 1951).

The Asset (London: Heinemann, 1956).

The Other Dear Charmer (London: Duckworth, 1957).

Master John Knox (Edinburgh: St Andrew Press, 1960).

Off a Duck’s Back (London: French, 1961).

Let Wives Tak Tent: A Free Translation into Scots of Moliere’s ‘L’Ecole de Femmes’ (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1983).

Rob Roy (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1983).

Tom Leonard

Edition

If Only Bunty Was Here: A Drama Sequence of Totally Undramatic Non-Sequiturs (Glasgow: Print Studio Press, 1979).

Liz Lochhead

Editions

Perfect Days (London: Nick Hern, 1998).

Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off and Dracula (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989).

Blood and Ice, Plays by Women 4, ed. Michelene Wandor, (London: Methuen, 1985).

Blood and Ice (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982).

Quelques Fleurs in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).

Tartuffe, A Translation Into Scots (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1985).

Criticism and Biography

Christianson, Aileen, ‘Liz Lochhead’s Poetry and Drama: Forging Ironies’, Contemporary Scottish Women Writers, eds. Aileen Christianson and Alison Lumsden, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000), pp. 41-52.

Crawford, Robert and Varty, Anne (eds.), Liz Lochhead’s Voices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Fischer-Seidel, Therese, ‘Biography in Drama: Genre and Gender in Tom Stoppard’s Travesties and Liz Lochhead’s Blood and Ice’, Why Literature Matters: Theories and Functions of Literature, eds. Rudiger Ahrens and Laurenz Volkmann,(Heidelberg: Winter, 1996), pp. 197-210.

Harvie, Jennifer, ‘Desire and Difference in Liz Lochhead’s Dracula’, Essays in Theatre / Etudes Theatrales 11(2) (1993), pp. 133-43.

Koren-Deutsch, Ilona S., ‘Feminist Nationalism in Scotland: Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off’, Modern Drama 35(3) (1992), pp. 424-32.

McDonald, Jan, ‘‘The Devil is Beautiful’: Dracula: Freudian Novel and Feminist Drama’, Novel Images: Literature in Performance, ed. Peter Reynolds, (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 80-104.

Neumeier, Beate, ‘Past Lives in Present Drama: Feminist Theatre and Intertextuality’, Frauen und Frauenarstellung in der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur, ed. Therese Fischer-Seidel, (Tubingen: Narr, 1991), pp. 181-98.

Scullion, Adrienne, ‘Liz Lochhead’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed.Thomas Rigg, (New York: St. James Press, 1999; sixth edition), pp. 403-5.

Varty, Anne, ‘The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead’, A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 641-58.

Nicola McCartney

Edition

Heritage (Edinburgh: Traverse, 1998).

Ewan McColl

Edition

Uranium 235: A Documentary Play (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1948).

Archibald MacCulloch

Edition

Mairead (Glasgow: An Comunn Gaidhealach, 1924).

Robert David MacDonald

Editions

School for Wives by Moliere (Birmingham: Oberon, 1987).

Mary Stuart by Schiller (Birmingham: Oberon, 1987).

Faust by Goethe (Birmingham: Oberon, 1988).

No Orchids for Miss Blandish (Birmingham: Oberon, 1988).

The Ice House (London: Oberon Books, 1998).

Three Plays – Chinchilla, Webster and Summit Conference (London: Oberon Books, 1991).

Sharman McDonald

Editions

Sea Urchins (London: Faber & Faber, 1998).

All Things Nice (London: Faber, 1991).

Shades (London: Faber, 1992).

Plays: One – When I was a girl I used to scream and shout; When We Were Women; The Winter Guest; Borders of Paradise (London: Faber & Faber, 1995).

Stephen Macdonald

Edition

Not about Heroes: The Friendship of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen (London: Faber, 1983).

John McGrath

Editions

Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (London: Methuen, 1966).

Random Happenings in the Hebrides (London: Davis-Poynter, 1972).

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (Breakish: West Highland Publishing Co., 1974).

Fish in the Sea (London: Pluto Press, 1977).

Little Red Hen (London: Pluto Press, 1977).

Yobbo Nowt (London: Pluto Press, 1978).

Joe’s Drum (Aberdeen: Aberdeen People’s Press, 1979).

Two Plays for the Eighties: Blood Red Roses, and Swings and Roundabouts (Aberdeen: Aberdeen People’s Press, 1981).

Six-Pack: The Scottish Plays (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1995).

Tom McGrath with Jimmy Boyle

Edition

The Hardman (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1977).

Robert McLellan

Editions

The changeling : a Border comedy in one act (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1938).

Collected plays Vol. 1 (London: John Calder; New York: Riverrrun Press, 1981).

The hypocrite (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).

Jamie the saxt : a historical comedy, edited by Ian Campbell and Ronald D.S. Jack, (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).

Hector McMillan

Editions

The Rising, Plays of the Seventies, ed. Bill Findlay, (Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1998).

The Sash My Father Wore (Glasgow: Molendinar Press, 1974).

Roddy McMillan

Editions

All in Good Faith (Glasgow: Scottish Society of Playwrights, 1979).

The Bevellers (Edinburgh: Southside Press, 1974).

Edwin Morgan

Edition

Cyrano de Bergerac (Edinburgh: Carcanet Press, 1992).

John Morris

Edition

How Mad Tulloch Was Taken Away (London: Faber, 1976).

Rona Munro

Editions

The Maiden Stone (London: Nick Hern, 1995).

Your Turn to Clean the Stair and Fugue (London: Nick Hern, 1995).

Bold Girls, First Run 3, ed. Matthew Lloyd, (London: Nick Hern, 1991).

Anthony Neilson

Edition

Plays: One – Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; The Night Before Christmas; The Censor (London: Methuen, 1998).

Alexander Reid

Editions

The Lass wi’ the Muckle Mou’, or Once Upon a Rhyme: A Comedy (London: Collins, 1958).

The Warld’s Wonder. A Phantasy (London: Collins, 1958).

Tony Roper

Edition

The Steamie in Scot-free: new Scottish plays, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990).

George Rosie

Edition

Carlucco and the Queen of Hearts, and Blasphemer (Edinburgh: Chapman, 1992).

James Scotland

Editions

The Burning Question: A Black-Edged Comedy (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1975).

The Holy Terror: A Scots Comedy, freely adapted from Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’ (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1978).

A Hundred Thousand Welcomes: A Comedy in Three Acts (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson,1982).

Alexander Scott

Editions

Prometheus 48 (Aberdeen: SRC, 1948).

Untrue Thomas (Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1952).

Shetland Yarn (London: Evans Brothers, 1954).

R.S. Silver

Edition

The Bruce (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1986).

Iain Crichton Smith

Editions

A’ Chuirt (Glasgow: An Comunn Gaidhealach, 1966).

An Coileach (Glasgow: An Comunn Gaidhealach, 1966).

Sydney Goodsir Smith

Editions

The Wallace: A Triumph in Five Acts (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1960).

Fifteen Poems and a Play (Edinburgh: Southside, 1969).

Muriel Spark

Editions

Voices at Play (London: Macmillan, 1961).

Doctors of Philosophy (London: Macmillan, 1963).

Alan Spence

Editions

Sailmaker (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1982).

Space Invaders (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1983).

Changed Days: Memories of an Edinburgh Community (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991).

Ena Lamont Stewart

Edition

Men Should Weep, ed. Linda Mackenney (Edinburgh: 7:84 Publications, 1986).

Cecil Philip Taylor

Editions

The Ballachulish Beat: A Play with Songs (London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967).

Bandits! (Cullercoats: Iron Press, 1977).

And a Nightingale Sang (London: Eyre-Methuen, 1979).

Good: A Tragedy (London: Methuen, 1979).

Live Theatre: Four Plays for Young People (London: Methuen, 1983).

North: Six Plays (London: Methuen/Iron Press, 1987).

Bring Me Sunshine & Other Plays (London: Methuen/Iron Press, 1988).

The Plays (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival Society, 1992).

Michel Tremblay

Edition

The Guid Sisters, trans. Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman, (London: Nick Hern, 1992).

Joan Ure

Edition

Five Short Plays (Glasgow: Scottish Society of Playwrights, 1979).

William Watson

Edition

Sawney Bean, with Robert Nye (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).

Background Reading

Brown, Ian, ‘Plugged into history: the sense of the past in Scottish theatre’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 84-99.

Brown, Ian (director), ‘Directing for the Scottish stage’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996) pp. 199-205.

Calder, R. (ed.), ‘Scottish theatre I and II’, Chapman 3(1) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1974).

Cameron, Alasdair, ‘Glasgow’s Tramway: little Diagilevs and large ambitions’, Theatre Research International 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 146- 55. ‘Experimental theatre in Scotland’, Contemporary British Theatre, ed. Theodore Shank, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), pp. 123-38. Study Guide to Scottish Theatre (Glasgow: Department of Scottish Literature: University of Glasgow, 1988) and Scullion, Adrienne (eds.), Scottish Popular Theatre and Entertainment (Glasgow: Glasgow University Library Studies, 1996).

Campbell, Donald, ‘Theatre in the Community: A Playwright’s View’, Chapman 10(52) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1988), pp. 51-6. A Brighter Sunshine: A Hundred Years of the Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre (Edinburgh: Southside, 1983) Chapman 3(1) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1974), [Issue on Scottish Theatre] Chapman 43-44 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1974), [a special edition focusing on theatre and drama].

Clifford, John, ‘New Playwriting in Scotland’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 93-7.

Craig, Sandy, Dreams and Deconstructions: Alternative Theatre in Britain (Ambergate, Derbyshire: Amberlane Press, 1980).

Crawford, Tom, Scottish Writing Today: Poetry, Fiction, Drama (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1972).

Di Cenzo, Maria, The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain 1968-1990: The Case of 7:84 (Scotland) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Farrell, Joseph, ‘Recent Poltical Theatre’, Chapman 8/9 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 48-54.

Findlay, B., A History of Scottish Theatre (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1998). ‘Translating Tremblay into Scots’,

Theatre Research International 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 138-45. ‘Talking in tongues: Scottish translations, 1970-1995’,

Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 186-97. ‘Translating into dialect’,

Stages in Translation: essays and interviews on translating for the stage, ed. David Johnston, (Bath: Absolute Classics, 1996), pp. 199-217.

Fisher, Mark, ‘From Traverse to Tramway: Scottish theatres old and new’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 49-56.

Folorunso, Femi, ‘Scottish drama and the popular tradition’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 176-85.

Giesekam, Greg, ‘Connections with the audience: writing for a Scottish theatre: Interview with Peter Arnott’, New Theatre Quarterly 6(24) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 318-34.

Hebert, Hugh, ‘Tutti Frutti (John Byrne)’, British Television Drama in the 1980s, ed. George W. Brandt, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 178-95.

Hutchison, David, ‘Economics, culture and play writing’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 206-14.

The Modern Scottish Theatre (Glasgow: Molendinar Press, 1977).

International Journal of Scottish Theatre - an e-journal: http://arts.qmuc.ac.uk/ijost/.

Itzen, Catherine, Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain Since 1968 (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980).

Kennedy, A.L., ‘Edging Close to the Bone’, Sight and Sound 6(12) (London: British Institute of Adult Education, 1996), pp. 23-5.

Kinloch, David, ‘"Lazarus at the feast of love": [Edwin] Morgan’s Cyrano de Bergerac’, Scotlands 5(2) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), pp. 34-54.

Lloyd, Matthew, ‘Chris Hannan’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed. K.A. Berney, (London and Chicago: St James Press, 1993; fifth edition), pp. 275-6.

Lofton, R., ‘The Idea of Scottish Drama’, Chapman 3(3) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1975), pp. 18-24.

Low, John Thomas, ‘Mid-Twentieth Century Drama in Lowland Scots’, Scotland and the Lowland Tongue, ed. J. Derrick McClure, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 170-94.

McArthur, Colin (ed.), Scotch Reels (London: British Film Institute, 1982).

Macdonald, Gus, ‘Fiction Friction’, From Limelight to Satellite: A Scottish Film Book, ed. Eddie Dick, (London: British Film Institute, 1990), pp. 193-206.

McDonald, Jan, ‘Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945’, A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 494-513.

McGrath, John, A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre, Class and Form (London: Eyre Methuen, 1981).

The Bone Won’t Break: On Theatre and Hope in Hard Times (London: Methuen, 1990).

‘When the Cutting Edge Cuts Both Ways: Contemporary Scottish Drama’, Modern Drama 38(1) (1995), pp. 87-96.

MacKenney, Linda, The Directory of the Scottish Theatre Archive Collection (Glasgow: Scottish Theatre Archive, 1982).

McLennan, Elizabeth, The Moon Belongs to Everyone: Making Popular Theatre with 7:84 (London: Methuen, 1990).

McMillan, Joyce, The Traverse Theatre Story (London: Methuen, 1988) ‘Women Playwrights in Contemporary Scottish Theatre’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 69-75.

Maguire, Tom, ‘Under New Management: The Changing Direciton of 7:84 (Scotland)’, Theatre Research Interational 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 132-7.

Maley, Willy, ‘Borders Welfare: the state of Scottish theatre’, Scot Lit 16 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997), pp. 1-2.

Moffat, Alasdair, The Edinburgh Fringe (London: Johnston & Bacon, 1988).

Neilson, Sandy, ‘Theatre Revival: A Director’s View’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 16-9.

Paterson, Lindsay, ‘Language and identity on the stage’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 76-83.

Peacock, D. Keith, ‘Fact Versus History: Two Attempts to Change the Audience’s Political Perspective’, Theatre Studies 31-32 (Columbus: Ohio State University Theatre Research Institute, 1984-85/1985-86), pp. 15-31.

Peoples, Robin, ‘Youth Theatre in Scotland’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 85-7.

Purdie, Howard, ‘Alba’s Highland Charge’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 60-2.

‘Starve a Rep, Feed a Theatre’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 56-60.

Rutherford, Sarah C., ‘Fantasists and philosophers’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 112-24.

Savage, Roger, ‘A Scottish National Theatre?’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 23-33.

Scullion, Adrienne, ‘Chris Hannan’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed. Thomas Rigg, (Detroit & New York: St James Press, 1999; sixth edition), pp. 280-1.

‘Feminine pleasures and masculine indignities: gender and community in Scottish drama’, Gendering the Nation, ed. Christopher Whyte, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), pp. 169-204.

Smith, Donald, ‘1950 to 1995’, A History of Scottish Theatre, ed. Bill Findlay (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1998), pp. 253-308.

Smith, Donald (ed.), The Scottish Stage: a National Theatre Company for Scotland (Edinburgh: Candlemaker, 1994).

Stevenson, Randall and Wallace, Gavin (eds.), Scottish Theatre since the Seventies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996).

Stevenson, Randall, ‘Scottish theatre, 1950-1980’, The History of Scottish Literature vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 349-67.

‘Scottish Theatre Company: first days, first nights’, Cencrastus 7 (Edinburgh: Cencrastus, 1981-2), pp. 10-3.

‘Snakes and ladders, snakes and owls: charting Scottish theatre’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 1-20.

‘In the jungle of the cities’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 100-11.

Theatre Scotland, [a magazine with useful articles and commentary: also published a play in each edition].

Unwin, Steven, Killick, Jenny, and Pollock, A. (eds.), The Traverse Theatre, 1963-1988 (Edinburgh: Traverse, 1988).

Wells, Patricia Ann, ‘Scottish Drama Comes of Age: An Examination of Three Scottish Plays’, Dissertation Abstracts International 45(2) (1984), pp. 394A-350A.

Wright, Allen, ‘Writers and the Theatre’, Scottish Writing and Writers, ed. Norman Wilson, (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head, 1977), pp. 49-52.

Zenzinger, Peter, ‘The new wave’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 125-37.

The Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow

Coveney, Michael, The Citizens’: 21 years of the Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre (London: Nick Hern, 1990).

Eddershaw, Margaret, ‘Echt Brecht? Mother Courage at the Citizens’, 1990’, New Theatre Quarterly 8(28) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 303-14.

Havergal, Giles, ‘Choosing plays: the conditions of artistic choice at the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, 1969-85’ [J.F. Arnott Memorial Lecture], Tenth World Congress of the International Federation of Theatre Research, (1985).

Hutchison, David, ‘Glasgow and its Citizens’’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 57-64.

McDonald, Jan, What is the Citizens’ Theatre? (Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, New Series 1, 1984).

‘A house of illusions’: The Citizens’ Theatre Glasgow, 1969-1979’, Maske und Kothurn (Wien: H. Böhlaus Nachf., 29 January, 1983), p. 199 and Claude Schumacher (eds.), The Citizens’ Theatre Season: Glasgow 1990 (Glasgow: Theatre Studies Publications, 1991).

Oliver, Cordelia, Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre: Robert David MacDonald and German drama (Glasgow: Third Eye, 1984).

Schumacher, Claude, and Fogg, Derek (eds.), Hochhuth’s The Representative at the Glasgow Citizens’, 1986 (Glasgow: Theatre Studies Publications/Goethe Institute, 1988).

7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)

Di Cenzo, Maria, The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain, 1968-1990: the case of 7:84 (Scotland) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Farrell, Joseph, ‘Recent Political Theatre’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 48-54.

Itzin, Catherine, ‘John McGrath and 7:84 Theatre Company’, Stages in the Revolution: political theatre in Britain since 1968 (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980).

McGrath, John, A Good Night Out: popular theatre, audience, class and form (London: Eyre Methuen, 1981).

The Bone Won’t Break: on theatre and hope in hard times (London: Methuen, 1990).

McGrath, John, interviewed by Olga Taxidou, ‘From cheviots to silver darlings’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 149-63.

Mackenney, Linda, ‘The people’s story: 7:84 Scotland’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 63-72.

McLennan, Elizabeth, The Moon Belongs to Everyone: making popular theatre with 7:84 (London: Methuen, 1981).

Maguire, Tom, ‘Still cool for cats? The life and times of Wildcat Stage Productions’, International Journal of Scottish Theatre 1(1) (2000), [http://arts.qmuc.ac.uk/ijost/Volume1_no1/T_Maguire.htm].

‘Under New Management: the changing direction of 7:84 (Scotland)’, Theatre Research International 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 132-7.

Taxidou, Olga, ‘Epic theatre in Scotland’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds.Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 164-75.

‘‘Where exactly is Scotland’ local cultures, popular theatre and national television’, Boxed Sets: television representations of theatre, ed. Jeremy Ridgman, (Luton: University of Luton Press/Arts Council of England, 1998), pp. 89-105.

Thomsen, Christopher W., ‘Three socialist playwrights: John McGrath, Caryl Churchill, Trevor Griffiths’, Contemporary English Drama, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby, (New York: Holmes and Meier, Stratford Upon Avon Studies 19, 1981), pp. 157-76.

Women in Theatre

Bain, Audrey, ‘Loose canons: identifying a women’s tradition in play writing’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 138-45.

Gifford, Douglas, ‘Making them bold and breaking the mould: Rona Munro’s Bold Girls’, Laverock 2 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1996), pp. 2-8.

Goodman, Lizbeth, ‘Rona Munro’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed. K.A. Berney, (London: St James, 1993; fifth edition), pp. 172-3.

Contemporary Feminist Theatres: to each her own (London: Routledge, 1993).

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