Book description
Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the
landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power.
Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the
commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this
alien country. He seeks to restore peace to a country ravaged by war.
This is Scotland in the eleventh century at the height of the fight
for succession of the Scottish throne. David Greig's Dunsinane
premiered in February 2010 at Hampstead Theatre, London, in a
production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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.
