strangers, babies

Linda McLean is a Scottish playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays include Glory on Earth, Every Five Minutes, Any Given Day, Sex & God, strangers, babies, Shimmer, Riddance, One Good Beating and Thingummy Bob.She has written stage adaptations of Alice Munro's The View From Castle Rock for Stellar Quines and the EIBF, and of Denise Mina's The Long Drop for Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow.Linda was the Creative Fellow at Edinburgh University’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities in 2011. She was Chair of the Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland from 2008–2015, and she is an artistic associate of Magic Theatre, San Francisco.An anthology of her work, translated into French by Sarah Vermande and Blandine Pelissiér, was published in 2015 by Actes Sud-Papiers.

'Spare, elliptical and troubling'