Book description
One wintry morning Prudencia Hart, an uptight academic, sets off to
attend a conference in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. As the snow
begins to fall, little does she know who or what awaits her there.
Swept along on an enchanting dream-like journey of self discovery,
Prudencia meets with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily
wild music. Inspired by the Border ballads, The Strange Undoing of
Prudencia Hart by David Greig was first presented by the National
Theatre of Scotland in the Victorian Bar of the Tron Theatre, Glasgow,
in February 2011 and toured to Òran Mór, Glasgow, and Ghillie Dhu,
Edinburgh, in association with the Traverse Theatre, in summer 2011.
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.
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