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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mr john mcgrath”
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  • Hyperlynx

    by Mr John McGrath ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

    by Mr John McGrath ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Strathoykel, Sutherland. "When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck by a woman with a stick. The gentry leant out of their saddles and beat at the women's heads with their crops." (John McGrath) ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

    by Mr John McGrath, Dr Graeme Macdonald ...
    Series series Student Editions
    Written during the 1970s, John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play tracks the economic history and exploitation of the Scottish Highlands from the post-Rebellion suppression of the clans to the story of the Clearances: in the nineteenth century, aristocratic landowners discovered the profitability of sheep farming, and forced a mass emigration of rural Highlanders, burning their houses in ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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