Liz Lochhead

Standard Name: Lochhead, Liz
Birth Name: Eizabeth Anne Lochhead
Nickname: Liz
LL , a contemporary Scottish poet and dramatist, has written a number of sketches, monologues, revues, and full-length plays (some of them adapted from canonical works of the past). She names the Glasgow poet Edwin Morgan as a poetic inspiration.
Lochhead, Liz. Bagpipe Muzak. Penguin.
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She writes about the glitzy modern world of high commerce and humdrum poverty, the failure of emotional response, the selling of heritage. Her fictional characters, most of them women, are seldom lovable and often sharply funny. Although her individual works may seem slight, they resonate powerfully.
Portrait photo of Liz Lochhead. She is wearing a beige blazer and a turqoise beaded necklace. Her white hair is cut short and she is standing against a blue/grey backdrop.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Methuen 's drama catalogue for 1981-2 had listed seventy-five playwrights, only two of them women (as was pointed out by Mary Remnant , who succeeded to MW as editor after the next three volumes in...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's ambitious, seven-hour translation and adaptation from Sophocles , The Thebans, opened at Stratford.
This was a decade before Liz Lochhead 's, or rather Theatre Babel 's, Thebans.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
Contributors included Gillian Clarke (with In a Cardiff Arcade, 1952), Jackie Kay (with Silver Moon, for London's feminist bookshop, 1982-2001), and Liz Lochhead (for the more general Essentials).

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