Victoria
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Victoria
By (Author) David Greig
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm
Description
A new play for the Royal Shakespeare Company
"World's moving. People moving. We've only to cross the sea. Same sea we're looking at. The world's waiting for us. We've only to take our place it." In 1936, 1974 and 1996, a woman shapes dramatic events in a rural community on the Scottish coast, reflecting the shifting political and social fabric of Britain in the 20th century. Victoria will received its World premire in London at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2000.
"David Greig is the most consistently interesting, prolific and artistically ambitious writer of his generation" (Scotsman)
Author Bio
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.
