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Love Freaks (Methuen Modern Plays)

Love Freaks (Methuen Modern Plays)

by IainHeggie (Author)

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Synopsis

A caustic new comedy from the winner of the John Whiting and the Mobile Prize awards, and one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrights Set in a modern-day Scotland, this is Iain Heggie's irreverent adaptation of Marivaux's comedy The Double Inconstancy The dialogue cuts into paradox, swagger and self defence as keenly as a surgeon's knife - Observer Cut-cross dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed - TES Love Freaks is published to coincide with its premiere in May 2002 at the Tron Theatre, Edinburgh

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 09 May 2002
ISBN 10: 0413772586
ISBN 13: 9780413772589
Book Overview: Iain Heggie won the Special Prize in the 1985 Mobil Playwriting Competition for his first play, A W holly Healthy Glasgow , and the John Whiting Award 1988 for American Bagpipes .

Media Reviews
The dialogue cuts into paradox, swagger and self defence as keenly as a surgeon's knife. -- Observer

Cut-cross dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed -- The Evening Standard

The dialogue cuts into paradox, swagger and self defence as keenly as a surgeon's knife. Observer

Cut-cross dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed The Evening Standard


The dialogue cuts into paradox, swagger and self defence as keenly as a surgeon's knife. --Observer

Cut-cross dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed --The Evening Standard

Author Bio
Award-winning playwright Iain Heggie is one of Scotland's leading playwrights. His Mobil prize-winning play, A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (1988), and his John Whiting award-winning play, American Bagpipes (1989), both premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, and were later seen at The Royal Court. His short plays, The Sex Comedies (1993), have been produced many times in London, Scotland, Germany and Austria. His other plays include An Experienced Woman Gives Advice, Don Juan, Love Freaks and Wiping My Mother's Arse.