Greig Plays:1: Europe; The Architect; The Cosmonaut's Last Message...
By (Author) David Greig
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
230g
"Europe" is set at a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "The Architect" charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolized designer, whose magnificent visions are now crumbling, along with his family, in the light of grubby reality. "The Cosmonaut's Last Message..." weaves together the stories of a fraught Scottish couple whose TV is on the blink, a Norwegian UN peace negotiator, a young prostitute, a French UFO researcher, a pregnant police woman and two forgotten Cosmonauts who sadly orbit the planet.
David Greig's plays include A Savage Reminiscence and And the Opera House Remained Unbuilt (Edinburgh Festival), Petra's Explanation (Traverse, Edinburgh), Stalinland (Edinburgh Festival - Fringe First, and Glasgow Citizens') and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Paines Plough, Lyric Hammersmith, Tron Glasgow and tour). TV: Nightlife (winner BBC Double Exposure comptition. Radio: Copper Sulphate, The Commuter.