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Dateline: 27th January, 2005
Lochhead and Greig Join NToS Scottish playwrights Liz Lochhead and David Greig are joining the new National Theatre of Scotland (NToS), Lochhead as an "artistic associate", the first of a group of about eight, and Greig as dramaturg, director Vicky Featherstone has revealed in an interview in The Scotsman. Both are considered to be among Scotland's leading playwrights. Describing Lochhead as "an absolute first choice for me", Featherstone said she is a writer who "has found ways of creating drama that is contemporary as well as classical for Scotland." Her plays range from romantic comedy (Perfect Days) to translations of classics (Medea for Theatre Babel, which was hugely successful at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe). She is also a poet, and has been writer in residence at Edinburgh University (1986-87) and the Royal Shakespeare Company (1988). Greig (see Philip Fisher's interview) is currently working with Featherstone who is directing his latest play, Pyrenees, in a joint production between Paines Plough and the Tron Theatre, which runs at the Galsgow venue during March. He will, said Featherstone, "be discussing plays, suggesting plays, working with international writers, helping set up translations and looking at ways we can work on existing Scottish plays. It’s about us being able to access David’s expertise." He joins the theatre in May and will probably stay for two years. Also appointed this week was John Tiffany, associate director of Paines Plough (a post which he has held since 2001), as associate director for new work. He won a Herald Angel Award for Directing Excellence for his production of Gregory Burke's The Straits. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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