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Excited to share a lively symposium & book launch celebrating Latin American plays in translation! Tune in for panel talks, fresh perspectives on staging & translation, and essential new texts for theatre makers and lovers — a must-watch for anyone into global theatre. #Theatre #LatinAmerica #Translation #BookLaunch #Symposium #Plays #Drama #English
https://peertube-eu.howlround.com/videos/watch/7622732b-666d-4a9e-83d6-a7cd363c8907

Symposium and Book Launch for Latin American Plays in Translation

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

Serving Twa Maisters
Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation

⭐️LET WIVES TAK TENT: Robert Kemp
⭐️THE BURDIES: Douglas Young
⭐️THE SERVANT O’ TWA MAISTERS: Victor Carin
⭐️THE HYPOCHONDRIAK: Hector MacMillan
⭐️MR PUNTILA & HIS MAN MATTI: Peter Arnott

7/7

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/serving_twa_maisters/

#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

The Devil to Stage
Five Plays by James Bridie
ed. Gerard Carruthers

⭐️THE SUNLIGHT SONATA
⭐️THE ANATOMIST
⭐️A SLEEPING CLERGYMAN
⭐️MR BOLFRY
⭐️DAPHNE LAUREOLA

6/7

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/devil_to_stage/

#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay #20thcentury

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

Scottish People’s Theatre
Plays by Glasgow Unity writers
ed. Bill Findlay

⭐️THE GORBALS STORY: Robert McLeish
⭐️MEN SHOULD WEEP: Ena Lamont Stewart
⭐️GOLD IN HIS BOOTS: George Munro
⭐️THE LAMBS OF GOD: Benedick Scott
⭐️ALL IN GOOD FAITH: Roddy McMillan

5/7

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/spt/

#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay #20thcentury #Glasgow #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

Dràma na Gàidhlig: Ceud Bliadhna air an Àrd-ùrlar
A Century of Gaelic Drama
ed Michell Macleod
WINNER of An Leabhar Neo-fhicsein as Fheàrr 2021 (Duais Dhòmhnaill Meek)

8 superb Gaelic plays from the start of the 20th century to the present

4/7

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/drama_na_gaidhlig/

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

Michel Tremblay: Plays in Scots
in 2 vols
Translated by Martin Bowman & Bill Findlay
Ed. Martin Bowman

The energy & versatility of 8 of Tremblay’s Québécois plays, captured in Scots translation. Available from all good booksellers everywhere!

3/7

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/other_titles/michel-tremblay-plays-in-scots-volume-1/

#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay #translation #quebecois #Quebec #MichelTremblay #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

SETTING THE STAGE
New Wave Scottish Drama from the 1970s & 1980s

Featuring 5 exciting & experimental playscripts:

White Rose (Peter Arnott)
Mary (Ian Brown)
Playing With Fire (Jo Clifford)
An Island in Largo (Sue Glover)
The Way to Go Home (Rona Munro)

2/7

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/setting-the-stage/

#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay

Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

“The general assumption in the past has tended to be that an overview of Scottish drama would not take very long. Between Sir David Lyndsay & James Bridie, what was there of any lasting importance?”

Edwin Morgan, “Scottish Drama: an overview” (1999)

Today, 27 March, is World Theatre Day

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https://asls.org.uk/scottish-drama-an-overview/

#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay #theatrehistory

MORGAN, Edwin, ‘Scottish Drama: an overview’

ScotLit 20, Spring 1999 | The general assumption in the past has tended to be that an overview of Scottish drama would not take very long. Between Sir David Lyndsay and James Bridie, what was there of…

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jackhutton 🇺🇸Mar 23

“LYMAN: Oh Leah, say something tough and honest . . . the way you can.

LEAH: I don’t know if I’ll ever believe anything . . . or anybody, again.”

Excerpt From
"The Ride Down Mount Morgan", 1991
The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015
Arthur Miller

#arthurMiller #theRideDownMountMorgan #books #plays #classics #bookstodon

jackhutton 🇺🇸Mar 22

LYMAN: Tom, I love her, too. But after thirty-two years we bore each other, we just do. And boredom is a form of deception, isn’t it. And deception has become like my Nazi, my worst horror—I want nothing now but to wear my own face on my face every day till the day I die. Or do you think that kind of honesty is possible?

TOM: I don’t have to tell you, the problem is not honesty but how much you hurt others with it.”

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