Setting the Stage : New Wave Scottish Drama from the 1970s and 1980s

These five plays from leading Scottish playwrights – Peter Arnott, Ian Brown, Jo Clifford, Sue Glover, and Rona Munro – address cultural and political mythmaking in Scotland and internationally. With their fresh approaches to dramatic possibilities and dynamic theatricality, they do so with both shocking directness and laugh-out-loud humour.

These five plays address cultural and political mythmaking, both modern and historical, in Scotland and internationally. With their fascinatingly fresh approaches to dramatic possibilities and dynamic theatricality, they do so with both shocking directness and laugh-out-loud humour. Setting the Stage is an indispensable volume for Scottish theatre and literature lovers.The playwrights published here – Peter Arnott, Ian Brown, Jo Clifford, Sue Glover, and Rona Munro – are all key figures in modern Scottish drama. These significant playtexts each mark an important, theatrically experimental development in Scottish playwriting from the 1970s and 1980s, and are published here for the first time.This collection, edited by Steven Cramer, distinguished former theatre editor of The List, and John Corbett, an authority on the use of Scots in literature, comprisesfive innovative plays by leading playwrightsa fascinating general introduction by Cramerauthor introductions to each play