Theatre of David Greig

Clare Wallace is Senior Lecturer in Irish and British Literature and Irish and Intercultural Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. She is a contributor to the two volumes The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish and British Playwrights and author of Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama.

Clare Wallace’s The Theatre of David Greig is a finely researched book that offers the first comprehensive account of the full range of the Scottish dramatist David Greig’s expansive theatre output over the past twenty years. It is impressively rich in detail and broad in scope ... Each chapter in this book is imaginatively assembled, painstakingly researched and richly illustrated with examples from cultural theory as well as the plays ... [It] is impressively authoritative and never less than an intellectually stimulating read about a very important Scottish, British and international playwright.

• Introduction1 Suspect Culture2 Lesson PlaysEurope, Stalinland, Petra, Dr Korczak's Example, The Architect, Yellow Moon, Monster in the Hall, Fragile, Letter of Last Resort3 ScotlandCaledonia Dreaming, Victoria, Outlying Islands, Midsummer (a play with songs), Dunsinane, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart4 GlobalizationThe Speculator, The Cosmonaut's Last Message, San Diego, Pyrenees 5 East/WestThe American Pilot, Damascus, The Miniskirts of Kabul, Ramallah, Not About Pomegranates6 PerspectivesDavid Greig in conversationMarilena Zaroulia (University of Winchester) 'Geographies of the Imagination' in David Greig's Theatre: Mobility, Globalization and European IdentitiesDavid Pattie (University of Chester) 'Who's Scotland?': David Greig, Identity, and Scottish NationhoodDirectors' cuts:Philip Howard (formerly Traverse Theatre, University of Glasgow)Wils Wilson (National Theatre of Scotland)Guy Hollands (formerly TAG and the Citizens Theatre)Vicky Featherstone (formerly National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Court Theatre)ConclusionResourcesChronologyFurther readingBibliographyNotesIndexNotes on Contributors