Book description
Duck Macatarsney cares for her biker dad, Duke, whose MS is getting
worse. Duke is a spliff-smoking (for medicinal reasons you
understand), bike-riding, heavy-metal- and horror-movie-loving,
pizza-eating widower who has brought up Duck since the death of her
mum in a crash. The two of them are just about surviving when one
morning the Duke wakes up blind and the Duck hears Social Services are
coming to take her away. The Monster in the Hall follows Duck as she
tries to protect her world from the terrifying prospect of change.
David Greig's The Monster in the Hall premiered at the Citizens
Theatre, Glasgow, in autumn 2010, and was staged at the Traverse
Theatre, Edinburgh in 2011 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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.
