Thursday 10th April 2025
2.30pm-3.30pm
Online
FREE
Join us for Playwrights’ Studio Case Study Sessions, our free to access digital series. Each short session gives space to artists to share their artistic journeys using practical examples from their careers.
For this session, we will be joined by playwright, theatre director and outgoing Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, David Greig. Drawing from his extensive career as a writer, David will share practical examples from his writing experience.
This event is for playwrights at any stage of their career.
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From his first production of One Way Street at the Traverse Theatre in 1995, David’s work has been produced widely across the UK and internationally. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart returned to The McKittrick Hotel in New York for a limited run in 2023 and a production of Outlying Islands recently opened at the Jermyn Street theatre in London.
Original plays include: Two Sisters, Under Another Sky, Adventures With The Painted People, The Events, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, The Monster in the Hall, Dunsinane, Midsummer [a play with songs], Damascus, Yellow Moon: the Ballad of Leila and Lee, Pyrenees, The American Pilot, San Diego, Outlying Islands, Casanova, Dr Korczak’s Example, The Speculator, The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman he once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, The Architect, Europe.
Adaptation and translation include: Local Hero, Solaris, Touching the Void, The Suppliant Women, Lanark: A Life in Three Acts, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Creditors, The Bacchae, Caligula.
David’s first novel, Columba’s Bones was published in 2023.
He co-founded Suspect Culture theatre company in 1992 with theatre maker Graham Eatough and composer Nick Powell. They produced collaborative, experimental work until the company ended in 2009.
David has been the Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh since 2016. In autumn last year, he announced he would be stepping down at the end of the 2024/25 season to focus on his writing and other literary endeavours.
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Live captioning will be available via Otter.
Please let us know if there is another way we can make this event more accessible for you. Email access@playwrightsstudio.co.uk to discuss this.