Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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Family and Intimate relationships Ali Smith
AS met her longtime partner Sarah Wood at Cambridge University in the 1980s
Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, pp. 186-29.
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. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...
Performance of text Deborah Levy
DL 's play Pax was performed by the Women's Theatre Group at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival .
“Deborah Levy”. doollee.com The Playwrights Database.
Performance of text Deborah Levy
Edinburgh saw DL 's work again at the Fringe of August 1986: Our Lady, with another all-female cast, two white and two black.
“Deborah Levy”. doollee.com The Playwrights Database.
Levy
Performance of text Liz Lochhead
LL 's play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off premiered at Edinburgh's Lyceum Studio during the Fringe Festival , to critical acclaim.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Performance of text Liz Lochhead
Following LL 's Medea, her Thebans (adapted from Sophocles and Euripides and to a lesser extent from Æschylus ) opened at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival .
Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern.
title-page, prelims
Performance of text Liz Lochhead
Latin for a Darkroom, a short film scripted by LL , was first shown at the Edinburgh Festival .
Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58.
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Performance of text Liz Lochhead
Lochhead has reworked this play (about Mary Shelley 's creation of Frankenstein) several times. A revised version was performed at the EdinburghFringe Festival by the Traverse Theatre Club under the new title Blood...
Performance of text Liz Lochhead
When this play was commissioned by Graham McLaren of Theatre Babel as part of a larger Greeks project, LL felt a frisson of slightly perverse attraction
Lochhead, Liz, and Euripides. Medea. Nick Hern.
foreword
at the idea of writing a play so...
Performance of text Ali Smith
Early among these works by Smith was Stalemate (1986), her first Fringe feature, a take off of Thatcherism performed by a company of undergraduate women called Trouble and Strife.
Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, pp. 186-29.
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Trouble and strife traditionally...
Performance of text Ali Smith
In 2016 Just was revived by Kidbrooke Theatre Company at Corelli College (a secondary school in Blackheath, South London) for the Edinburgh Fringe . True to its political genesis, this production saw members of the...
Reception Liz Lochhead
Mary Queen of Scots was a great hit with critics. In the Times, Irving Wardle compared the play favourably with Schiller 's Mary Stuart (also playing at the Fringe that year), and the Financial...
Reception Liz Lochhead
The revue was a great success with audiences. The 65-seat bar in which it was staged was always full, and it was revived at the EdinburghFringe the following year. Lochhead remarked that she found...
Textual Production Sarah Kane
Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a...

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