Bibliography of Scottish Literature
Scottish Literature since 1945 (Drama)
Anthologies
A Decade’s Drama (Todmorden: Woodhouse, 1980), [plays of the 1970s].
Scot-Free, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern, 1990), [plays of the 1980s].
Made In Scotland, eds. Ian Brown and Mark Fisher, (London: Methuen, 1994), [plays of the 1990s].
Plays of the Seventies, ed. Bill Findlay, (Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1998).
Scotland Plays, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern, 1998), [Traverse plays of the 1990s].
Twentieth-century Scottish Drama: an anthology, eds. Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001).
Willaim Boyd
Edition
School Ties (London: Hamilton, 1985).
George Mackay Brown
Editions
A Spell for Green Corn (London: Hogarth Press, 1970).
Three Plays (London: Chatto & Windus, 1984).
The Loom of Light (Nairn: Balnain, 1986).
A Celebration for Magnus (Narin: Balnain, 1987).
Bill Bryden
Editions
Willie Rough (Edinburgh: Southside, 1972).
Benny Lynch: Scenes from a Short Life (Edinburgh: Southside, 1975).
Old Movies (London: Heinemann, 1976).
Il Campiello: A Venetian Comedy by Carlo Goldoni, with Susanna Graham-Jones (London: Heinemann, 1976).
The Big Picnic, Theatre Scotland 3(10) (Edinburgh: Theatre Scotland, 1994).
John Byrne
Editions
The Government Inspector (London: Oberon Books, 1997).
Colquhoun and MacBryde (London: Faber & Faber, 1992).
Tutti Frutti (London: BBC, 1987).
The Slab Boys Trilogy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987).
Cutting a Rug (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982).
Still Life (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982).
Alisdair Campbell
Edition
Tri Dealbhan Cluiche (Skye: Clo Ostaig, 1990).
Donald Campbell
Editions
See also Poetry lists:
The Jesuit (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1976).
Somerville the Soldier (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1978).
The Widows of Clyth (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1979).
John Clifford
Editions
Night in the Village (London: Nick Hern, 1991).
Losing Venice in Scot-free: new Scottish plays, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990).
Innes de Castro in First Run: new plays by new writers, ed. Kate Harwood, (London: Nick Hern, 1989).
Mike Cullen
Edition
Anna Weiss (London: Nick Hern, 1997).
Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
Edition
Wormwood in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).
Andrew Dallmeyer
Edition
The Boys in the Backroom (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1982).
Anne Marie di Mambro
Edition
Brothers of Thunder in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).
Chris Dolan
Editions
Sabina! (London: Faber & Faber, 1998).
The Angel’s Share (Ayr: Borderline, 2000).
Simon Donald
Editions
The Life of Stuff in Theatre Scotland 1(2) (Edinburgh: Theatre Scotland, 1992).
Prickly Heat in First Run: new plays by new writers, ed. Kate Harwood, (London: Nick Hern, 1989).
Bill Douglas
Edition
Comrades (London: Faber, 1987).
Bill Dunlop
Edition
Female Wits (Belfast: Canto, 1990).
Douglas Dunn
Edition
Andromaque by Racine (London: Faber, 1990).
James Duthie
Edition
Donal and Sally (London: Eyre-Methuen, 1978).
Marcella Evaristi
Editions
Mouthpieces (St. Andrews: Crawford Centre for the Arts, 1980).
Commedia (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1983).
Ronald Frame
Edition
Paris; with Privateers (London: Faber, 1987).
Tom Gallacher
Editions
Revival!; and, Shellenbrack (Glasgow: Molendinar, 1978).
Natural Causes: A Mystery Thriller in Two Acts (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1980).
Jenny (London: French, 1980).
The Only Street: A Play in Two Acts (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1981).
Our Kindness to Five Persons (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1981).
The Sea Change (London: Dr Jan Loewen Ltd., 1981).
Robert Garioch
Editions
The Masque of Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Macdonald, 1954).
George Buchanan: Jephthah and the Baptist, Translatit frae Latin in Scots (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959).
Sue Glover
Editions
Shetland Saga (London: Nick Hern, 2000).
Bondagers and The Straw Chair (London: Methuen, 1997).
Stephen Greenhorn
Edition
Passing Places in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).
David Greig
Editions
Victoria (London: Methuen, 2000).
The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (London: Methuen, 1999).
Danny 306 + Me (4 Ever) (Edinburgh: Traverse, 1999).
The Speculator, The Speculator and The Meeting (London: Methuen, 1999).
Europe and The Architect (London: Methuen, 1996).
One Way Street in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).
George Gunn
Editions
Songs of the grey coast; The gold of Kildonan (Edinburgh: Chapman, 1992).
Whins (Edinburgh: Chapman, 1996).
Chris Hannan
Editions
Shinning Souls (London: Nick Hern, 1996).
The Evil Doers and The Baby (London: Nick Hern, 1991).
Elizabeth Gordon Quinn in Scot-free: new Scottish plays, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990).
David Harrower
Editions
Kill the Old Torture their Young (London: Methuen, 1998).
Knives in Hens (London: Methuen, 1995).
Iain Heggie
Editions
An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (London: Methuen, 1995).
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (London: Methuen, 1988).
American Bagpipes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989).
James Kelman
Edition
Hardie and Baird, and Other Plays (London: Secker & Warburg, 1991).
Robert Kemp
Editions
A Trump for Jerico (Edinburgh: St Giles Press, 1948).
The Satire of the Three Estates, Adapted from the play by Sir David Lindsay (Edinburgh: Scots Review, 1949).
The Saxon Saint (Edinburgh: St Giles Press, 1950).
The King of Scots (Edinburgh: St Giles Press, 1951).
The Asset (London: Heinemann, 1956).
The Other Dear Charmer (London: Duckworth, 1957).
Master John Knox (Edinburgh: St Andrew Press, 1960).
Off a Duck’s Back (London: French, 1961).
Let Wives Tak Tent: A Free Translation into Scots of Moliere’s ‘L’Ecole de Femmes’ (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1983).
Rob Roy (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1983).
Tom Leonard
Edition
If Only Bunty Was Here: A Drama Sequence of Totally Undramatic Non-Sequiturs (Glasgow: Print Studio Press, 1979).
Liz Lochhead
Editions
Perfect Days (London: Nick Hern, 1998).
Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off and Dracula (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989).
Blood and Ice, Plays by Women 4, ed. Michelene Wandor, (London: Methuen, 1985).
Blood and Ice (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1982).
Quelques Fleurs in Scotland Plays: new Scottish drama, ed. Philip Howard, (London: Nick Hern Books in association with Traverse Theatre, 1998).
Tartuffe, A Translation Into Scots (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1985).
Criticism and Biography
Christianson, Aileen, ‘Liz Lochhead’s Poetry and Drama: Forging Ironies’, Contemporary Scottish Women Writers, eds. Aileen Christianson and Alison Lumsden, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000), pp. 41-52.
Crawford, Robert and Varty, Anne (eds.), Liz Lochhead’s Voices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).
Fischer-Seidel, Therese, ‘Biography in Drama: Genre and Gender in Tom Stoppard’s Travesties and Liz Lochhead’s Blood and Ice’, Why Literature Matters: Theories and Functions of Literature, eds. Rudiger Ahrens and Laurenz Volkmann,(Heidelberg: Winter, 1996), pp. 197-210.
Harvie, Jennifer, ‘Desire and Difference in Liz Lochhead’s Dracula’, Essays in Theatre / Etudes Theatrales 11(2) (1993), pp. 133-43.
Koren-Deutsch, Ilona S., ‘Feminist Nationalism in Scotland: Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off’, Modern Drama 35(3) (1992), pp. 424-32.
McDonald, Jan, ‘‘The Devil is Beautiful’: Dracula: Freudian Novel and Feminist Drama’, Novel Images: Literature in Performance, ed. Peter Reynolds, (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 80-104.
Neumeier, Beate, ‘Past Lives in Present Drama: Feminist Theatre and Intertextuality’, Frauen und Frauenarstellung in der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur, ed. Therese Fischer-Seidel, (Tubingen: Narr, 1991), pp. 181-98.
Scullion, Adrienne, ‘Liz Lochhead’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed.Thomas Rigg, (New York: St. James Press, 1999; sixth edition), pp. 403-5.
Varty, Anne, ‘The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead’, A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 641-58.
Nicola McCartney
Edition
Heritage (Edinburgh: Traverse, 1998).
Ewan McColl
Edition
Uranium 235: A Documentary Play (Glasgow: Maclellan, 1948).
Archibald MacCulloch
Edition
Mairead (Glasgow: An Comunn Gaidhealach, 1924).
Robert David MacDonald
Editions
School for Wives by Moliere (Birmingham: Oberon, 1987).
Mary Stuart by Schiller (Birmingham: Oberon, 1987).
Faust by Goethe (Birmingham: Oberon, 1988).
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (Birmingham: Oberon, 1988).
The Ice House (London: Oberon Books, 1998).
Three Plays – Chinchilla, Webster and Summit Conference (London: Oberon Books, 1991).
Sharman McDonald
Editions
Sea Urchins (London: Faber & Faber, 1998).
All Things Nice (London: Faber, 1991).
Shades (London: Faber, 1992).
Plays: One – When I was a girl I used to scream and shout; When We Were Women; The Winter Guest; Borders of Paradise (London: Faber & Faber, 1995).
Stephen Macdonald
Edition
Not about Heroes: The Friendship of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen (London: Faber, 1983).
John McGrath
Editions
Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (London: Methuen, 1966).
Random Happenings in the Hebrides (London: Davis-Poynter, 1972).
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (Breakish: West Highland Publishing Co., 1974).
Fish in the Sea (London: Pluto Press, 1977).
Little Red Hen (London: Pluto Press, 1977).
Yobbo Nowt (London: Pluto Press, 1978).
Joe’s Drum (Aberdeen: Aberdeen People’s Press, 1979).
Two Plays for the Eighties: Blood Red Roses, and Swings and Roundabouts (Aberdeen: Aberdeen People’s Press, 1981).
Six-Pack: The Scottish Plays (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1995).
Tom McGrath with Jimmy Boyle
Edition
The Hardman (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1977).
Robert McLellan
Editions
The changeling : a Border comedy in one act (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1938).
Collected plays Vol. 1 (London: John Calder; New York: Riverrrun Press, 1981).
The hypocrite (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).
Jamie the saxt : a historical comedy, edited by Ian Campbell and Ronald D.S. Jack, (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).
Hector McMillan
Editions
The Rising, Plays of the Seventies, ed. Bill Findlay, (Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1998).
The Sash My Father Wore (Glasgow: Molendinar Press, 1974).
Roddy McMillan
Editions
All in Good Faith (Glasgow: Scottish Society of Playwrights, 1979).
The Bevellers (Edinburgh: Southside Press, 1974).
Edwin Morgan
Edition
Cyrano de Bergerac (Edinburgh: Carcanet Press, 1992).
John Morris
Edition
How Mad Tulloch Was Taken Away (London: Faber, 1976).
Rona Munro
Editions
The Maiden Stone (London: Nick Hern, 1995).
Your Turn to Clean the Stair and Fugue (London: Nick Hern, 1995).
Bold Girls, First Run 3, ed. Matthew Lloyd, (London: Nick Hern, 1991).
Anthony Neilson
Edition
Plays: One – Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; The Night Before Christmas; The Censor (London: Methuen, 1998).
Alexander Reid
Editions
The Lass wi’ the Muckle Mou’, or Once Upon a Rhyme: A Comedy (London: Collins, 1958).
The Warld’s Wonder. A Phantasy (London: Collins, 1958).
Tony Roper
Edition
The Steamie in Scot-free: new Scottish plays, ed. Alasdair Cameron, (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990).
George Rosie
Edition
Carlucco and the Queen of Hearts, and Blasphemer (Edinburgh: Chapman, 1992).
James Scotland
Editions
The Burning Question: A Black-Edged Comedy (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1975).
The Holy Terror: A Scots Comedy, freely adapted from Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’ (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson, 1978).
A Hundred Thousand Welcomes: A Comedy in Three Acts (Glasgow: Brown & Ferguson,1982).
Alexander Scott
Editions
Prometheus 48 (Aberdeen: SRC, 1948).
Untrue Thomas (Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1952).
Shetland Yarn (London: Evans Brothers, 1954).
R.S. Silver
Edition
The Bruce (Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1986).
Iain Crichton Smith
Editions
A’ Chuirt (Glasgow: An Comunn Gaidhealach, 1966).
An Coileach (Glasgow: An Comunn Gaidhealach, 1966).
Sydney Goodsir Smith
Editions
The Wallace: A Triumph in Five Acts (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1960).
Fifteen Poems and a Play (Edinburgh: Southside, 1969).
Muriel Spark
Editions
Voices at Play (London: Macmillan, 1961).
Doctors of Philosophy (London: Macmillan, 1963).
Alan Spence
Editions
Sailmaker (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1982).
Space Invaders (Edinburgh: Salamander, 1983).
Changed Days: Memories of an Edinburgh Community (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991).
Ena Lamont Stewart
Edition
Men Should Weep, ed. Linda Mackenney (Edinburgh: 7:84 Publications, 1986).
Cecil Philip Taylor
Editions
The Ballachulish Beat: A Play with Songs (London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967).
Bandits! (Cullercoats: Iron Press, 1977).
And a Nightingale Sang (London: Eyre-Methuen, 1979).
Good: A Tragedy (London: Methuen, 1979).
Live Theatre: Four Plays for Young People (London: Methuen, 1983).
North: Six Plays (London: Methuen/Iron Press, 1987).
Bring Me Sunshine & Other Plays (London: Methuen/Iron Press, 1988).
The Plays (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival Society, 1992).
Michel Tremblay
Edition
The Guid Sisters, trans. Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman, (London: Nick Hern, 1992).
Joan Ure
Edition
Five Short Plays (Glasgow: Scottish Society of Playwrights, 1979).
William Watson
Edition
Sawney Bean, with Robert Nye (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970).
Background Reading
Brown, Ian, ‘Plugged into history: the sense of the past in Scottish theatre’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 84-99.
Brown, Ian (director), ‘Directing for the Scottish stage’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996) pp. 199-205.
Calder, R. (ed.), ‘Scottish theatre I and II’, Chapman 3(1) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1974).
Cameron, Alasdair, ‘Glasgow’s Tramway: little Diagilevs and large ambitions’, Theatre Research International 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 146- 55. ‘Experimental theatre in Scotland’, Contemporary British Theatre, ed. Theodore Shank, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), pp. 123-38. Study Guide to Scottish Theatre (Glasgow: Department of Scottish Literature: University of Glasgow, 1988) and Scullion, Adrienne (eds.), Scottish Popular Theatre and Entertainment (Glasgow: Glasgow University Library Studies, 1996).
Campbell, Donald, ‘Theatre in the Community: A Playwright’s View’, Chapman 10(52) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1988), pp. 51-6. A Brighter Sunshine: A Hundred Years of the Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre (Edinburgh: Southside, 1983) Chapman 3(1) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1974), [Issue on Scottish Theatre] Chapman 43-44 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1974), [a special edition focusing on theatre and drama].
Clifford, John, ‘New Playwriting in Scotland’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 93-7.
Craig, Sandy, Dreams and Deconstructions: Alternative Theatre in Britain (Ambergate, Derbyshire: Amberlane Press, 1980).
Crawford, Tom, Scottish Writing Today: Poetry, Fiction, Drama (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1972).
Di Cenzo, Maria, The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain 1968-1990: The Case of 7:84 (Scotland) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Farrell, Joseph, ‘Recent Poltical Theatre’, Chapman 8/9 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 48-54.
Findlay, B., A History of Scottish Theatre (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1998). ‘Translating Tremblay into Scots’,
Theatre Research International 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 138-45. ‘Talking in tongues: Scottish translations, 1970-1995’,
Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 186-97. ‘Translating into dialect’,
Stages in Translation: essays and interviews on translating for the stage, ed. David Johnston, (Bath: Absolute Classics, 1996), pp. 199-217.
Fisher, Mark, ‘From Traverse to Tramway: Scottish theatres old and new’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 49-56.
Folorunso, Femi, ‘Scottish drama and the popular tradition’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 176-85.
Giesekam, Greg, ‘Connections with the audience: writing for a Scottish theatre: Interview with Peter Arnott’, New Theatre Quarterly 6(24) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 318-34.
Hebert, Hugh, ‘Tutti Frutti (John Byrne)’, British Television Drama in the 1980s, ed. George W. Brandt, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 178-95.
Hutchison, David, ‘Economics, culture and play writing’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 206-14.
The Modern Scottish Theatre (Glasgow: Molendinar Press, 1977).
International Journal of Scottish Theatre - an e-journal: http://arts.qmuc.ac.uk/ijost/.
Itzen, Catherine, Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain Since 1968 (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980).
Kennedy, A.L., ‘Edging Close to the Bone’, Sight and Sound 6(12) (London: British Institute of Adult Education, 1996), pp. 23-5.
Kinloch, David, ‘"Lazarus at the feast of love": [Edwin] Morgan’s Cyrano de Bergerac’, Scotlands 5(2) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), pp. 34-54.
Lloyd, Matthew, ‘Chris Hannan’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed. K.A. Berney, (London and Chicago: St James Press, 1993; fifth edition), pp. 275-6.
Lofton, R., ‘The Idea of Scottish Drama’, Chapman 3(3) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1975), pp. 18-24.
Low, John Thomas, ‘Mid-Twentieth Century Drama in Lowland Scots’, Scotland and the Lowland Tongue, ed. J. Derrick McClure, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 170-94.
McArthur, Colin (ed.), Scotch Reels (London: British Film Institute, 1982).
Macdonald, Gus, ‘Fiction Friction’, From Limelight to Satellite: A Scottish Film Book, ed. Eddie Dick, (London: British Film Institute, 1990), pp. 193-206.
McDonald, Jan, ‘Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945’, A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 494-513.
McGrath, John, A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre, Class and Form (London: Eyre Methuen, 1981).
The Bone Won’t Break: On Theatre and Hope in Hard Times (London: Methuen, 1990).
‘When the Cutting Edge Cuts Both Ways: Contemporary Scottish Drama’, Modern Drama 38(1) (1995), pp. 87-96.
MacKenney, Linda, The Directory of the Scottish Theatre Archive Collection (Glasgow: Scottish Theatre Archive, 1982).
McLennan, Elizabeth, The Moon Belongs to Everyone: Making Popular Theatre with 7:84 (London: Methuen, 1990).
McMillan, Joyce, The Traverse Theatre Story (London: Methuen, 1988) ‘Women Playwrights in Contemporary Scottish Theatre’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 69-75.
Maguire, Tom, ‘Under New Management: The Changing Direciton of 7:84 (Scotland)’, Theatre Research Interational 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 132-7.
Maley, Willy, ‘Borders Welfare: the state of Scottish theatre’, Scot Lit 16 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997), pp. 1-2.
Moffat, Alasdair, The Edinburgh Fringe (London: Johnston & Bacon, 1988).
Neilson, Sandy, ‘Theatre Revival: A Director’s View’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 16-9.
Paterson, Lindsay, ‘Language and identity on the stage’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 76-83.
Peacock, D. Keith, ‘Fact Versus History: Two Attempts to Change the Audience’s Political Perspective’, Theatre Studies 31-32 (Columbus: Ohio State University Theatre Research Institute, 1984-85/1985-86), pp. 15-31.
Peoples, Robin, ‘Youth Theatre in Scotland’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 85-7.
Purdie, Howard, ‘Alba’s Highland Charge’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 60-2.
‘Starve a Rep, Feed a Theatre’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 56-60.
Rutherford, Sarah C., ‘Fantasists and philosophers’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 112-24.
Savage, Roger, ‘A Scottish National Theatre?’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 23-33.
Scullion, Adrienne, ‘Chris Hannan’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed. Thomas Rigg, (Detroit & New York: St James Press, 1999; sixth edition), pp. 280-1.
‘Feminine pleasures and masculine indignities: gender and community in Scottish drama’, Gendering the Nation, ed. Christopher Whyte, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), pp. 169-204.
Smith, Donald, ‘1950 to 1995’, A History of Scottish Theatre, ed. Bill Findlay (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1998), pp. 253-308.
Smith, Donald (ed.), The Scottish Stage: a National Theatre Company for Scotland (Edinburgh: Candlemaker, 1994).
Stevenson, Randall and Wallace, Gavin (eds.), Scottish Theatre since the Seventies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996).
Stevenson, Randall, ‘Scottish theatre, 1950-1980’, The History of Scottish Literature vol. IV, Twentieth Century, ed. Cairns Craig, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 349-67.
‘Scottish Theatre Company: first days, first nights’, Cencrastus 7 (Edinburgh: Cencrastus, 1981-2), pp. 10-3.
‘Snakes and ladders, snakes and owls: charting Scottish theatre’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 1-20.
‘In the jungle of the cities’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 100-11.
Theatre Scotland, [a magazine with useful articles and commentary: also published a play in each edition].
Unwin, Steven, Killick, Jenny, and Pollock, A. (eds.), The Traverse Theatre, 1963-1988 (Edinburgh: Traverse, 1988).
Wells, Patricia Ann, ‘Scottish Drama Comes of Age: An Examination of Three Scottish Plays’, Dissertation Abstracts International 45(2) (1984), pp. 394A-350A.
Wright, Allen, ‘Writers and the Theatre’, Scottish Writing and Writers, ed. Norman Wilson, (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head, 1977), pp. 49-52.
Zenzinger, Peter, ‘The new wave’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 125-37.
The Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow
Coveney, Michael, The Citizens’: 21 years of the Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre (London: Nick Hern, 1990).
Eddershaw, Margaret, ‘Echt Brecht? Mother Courage at the Citizens’, 1990’, New Theatre Quarterly 8(28) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 303-14.
Havergal, Giles, ‘Choosing plays: the conditions of artistic choice at the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, 1969-85’ [J.F. Arnott Memorial Lecture], Tenth World Congress of the International Federation of Theatre Research, (1985).
Hutchison, David, ‘Glasgow and its Citizens’’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 57-64.
McDonald, Jan, What is the Citizens’ Theatre? (Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, New Series 1, 1984).
‘A house of illusions’: The Citizens’ Theatre Glasgow, 1969-1979’, Maske und Kothurn (Wien: H. Böhlaus Nachf., 29 January, 1983), p. 199 and Claude Schumacher (eds.), The Citizens’ Theatre Season: Glasgow 1990 (Glasgow: Theatre Studies Publications, 1991).
Oliver, Cordelia, Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre: Robert David MacDonald and German drama (Glasgow: Third Eye, 1984).
Schumacher, Claude, and Fogg, Derek (eds.), Hochhuth’s The Representative at the Glasgow Citizens’, 1986 (Glasgow: Theatre Studies Publications/Goethe Institute, 1988).
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)
Di Cenzo, Maria, The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain, 1968-1990: the case of 7:84 (Scotland) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Farrell, Joseph, ‘Recent Political Theatre’, Chapman 8-9(43-44) (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1986), pp. 48-54.
Itzin, Catherine, ‘John McGrath and 7:84 Theatre Company’, Stages in the Revolution: political theatre in Britain since 1968 (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980).
McGrath, John, A Good Night Out: popular theatre, audience, class and form (London: Eyre Methuen, 1981).
The Bone Won’t Break: on theatre and hope in hard times (London: Methuen, 1990).
McGrath, John, interviewed by Olga Taxidou, ‘From cheviots to silver darlings’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 149-63.
Mackenney, Linda, ‘The people’s story: 7:84 Scotland’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 63-72.
McLennan, Elizabeth, The Moon Belongs to Everyone: making popular theatre with 7:84 (London: Methuen, 1981).
Maguire, Tom, ‘Still cool for cats? The life and times of Wildcat Stage Productions’, International Journal of Scottish Theatre 1(1) (2000), [http://arts.qmuc.ac.uk/ijost/Volume1_no1/T_Maguire.htm].
‘Under New Management: the changing direction of 7:84 (Scotland)’, Theatre Research International 17(2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 132-7.
Taxidou, Olga, ‘Epic theatre in Scotland’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds.Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 164-75.
‘‘Where exactly is Scotland’ local cultures, popular theatre and national television’, Boxed Sets: television representations of theatre, ed. Jeremy Ridgman, (Luton: University of Luton Press/Arts Council of England, 1998), pp. 89-105.
Thomsen, Christopher W., ‘Three socialist playwrights: John McGrath, Caryl Churchill, Trevor Griffiths’, Contemporary English Drama, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby, (New York: Holmes and Meier, Stratford Upon Avon Studies 19, 1981), pp. 157-76.
Women in Theatre
Bain, Audrey, ‘Loose canons: identifying a women’s tradition in play writing’, Scottish Theatre since the Seventies, eds. Stevenson and Wallace, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), pp. 138-45.
Gifford, Douglas, ‘Making them bold and breaking the mould: Rona Munro’s Bold Girls’, Laverock 2 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1996), pp. 2-8.
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