Lagan
Will be published approx. on 27. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-84842-231-5 (ISBN)
Description
A kaleidoscope of stories from post-Troubles Belfast, Lagan is an intimate and absorbing dramatic portrait of a city with a past like no other.
Ten lives flow through the city of Belfast, like the River Lagan. A man returns to find old values and new shopping centres. A woman talks to her son's ghost amid scaffolding. A taxi driver picks up a pint of milk for his drunk dad. And a young woman turns her back on her past and discovers the possibility of love.
Stacey Gregg's play Lagan was first staged at Oval House Theatre, London, in 2011.
Ten lives flow through the city of Belfast, like the River Lagan. A man returns to find old values and new shopping centres. A woman talks to her son's ghost amid scaffolding. A taxi driver picks up a pint of milk for his drunk dad. And a young woman turns her back on her past and discovers the possibility of love.
Stacey Gregg's play Lagan was first staged at Oval House Theatre, London, in 2011.
Reviews / Votes
'Gregg's script bites... confident and self assured' * Whatsonstage.com * 'Blurring dialogue and monologue, Stacey Gregg's lyrical, punchy script is a delight. Sombre one moment, laugh out loud funny the next, her writing lends Lagan its urgency and verve' * Time Out * 'The snaking structure is clever as the glancing connections between the characters are stealthily revealed, and there is no doubt that Gregg can really write' * Guardian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84842-231-5 (9781848422315)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Stacey Gregg is from Belfast and is a writer and performer for stage and screen. Her plays include Scorch (Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast, 2015; Edinburgh Fringe, 2016); Shibboleth (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2015); Override (Watford Palace Theatre, 2013); Lagan (Ovalhouse Theatre London, 2011); Perve (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2011; BBC Radio Drama Award 2012) and When Cows Go Boom (Abbey Theatre, Dublin 2008).
She co-created an interactive web installation for CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities).
Television work includes Raw (RTE), Spoof or Die (Channel Four) and The Frankenstein Chronicles (Rainmark).
Author photo by Nina Sologubenko
She co-created an interactive web installation for CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities).
Television work includes Raw (RTE), Spoof or Die (Channel Four) and The Frankenstein Chronicles (Rainmark).
Author photo by Nina Sologubenko