Outlying Islands - Softcover

Greig, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571217605 ISBN 13: 9780571217601

Publisher: David Greig, 2002

Synopsis

On the eve of the second world war, two young Cambridge ornithologists arrive on a remote, uninhabited Scottish island. With them on the island are Kirk, the authoritarian leaseholder, and his niece Ellen, a young woman in love with the stars of silent comedy. Left alone on a scrap of land surrounded by the vast Atlantic, they observe each other. Premiered at the Traverse, and transferring to the West End in Autumn 2002.

About this title

About the Author:

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], Dunsinane, The Monster in the Hall and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. In 1990 he co-founded Suspect Culture to produce collaborative, experimental theatre work. His translations and adaptations include Camus's Caligula, Euripides' The Bacchae, Strindberg's Creditors and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan.

About this edition

• Publisher: David Greig
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571217605
• ISBN 13: 9780571217601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128