Book description
Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car
salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a
high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands.
She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They
absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they
do. Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning,
car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts
and self-loathing hangovers.
David Greig was born in Edinburgh. His plays include Europe, The
Architect, The Speculator, The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman
He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Outlying Islands, San Diego,
Pyrenees, The American Pilot, Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee
, Damascus, Midsummer [a play with songs] and Dunsinane. In 1990 he
co-founded Suspect Culture to produce collaborative, experimental
theatre work. His translation of Caligula was presented at the Donmar
Warehouse in an award-winning production in 2003, and his version of
Euripides' The Bacchae was seen at the Edinburgh International
Festival and the Lyric Hammersmith in 2007.
