Any Given Day

An intimate portrait of ordinary lives and extraordinary moments.

For audiences who value character-driven human drama.

About the Ebook

A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.

This is a big day for Sadie and Bill; their favourite person is coming to visit. They've gone to great lengths to prepare for the occasion. It's an even bigger day for Jackie; and not one she'd anticipated. Should she make the most of it? She doesn't know if she can any more; too many people depend on her.

Linda McLean's play Any Given Day explores our fear of the unknown, and our guilt and responsibility towards ourselves and others.

It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in May 2010.

Reviews

'As bold, unnerving and fraught as anything McLean has written' Guardian

'An excellent play which truly does horrify on so many levels' Independent

Why You'll Love This Ebook

• Nuanced exploration of everyday human experience.
• Intimate portraits of complex relationships.
• Published by Nick Hern Books, leading contemporary theatre publisher.
• Theatre that captures life's quiet complexity.

About the Author

Linda McLean is a Scottish playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays include Glory on Earth, Every Five Minutes, Any Given Day, Sex & God, strangers, babies, Shimmer, Riddance, One Good Beating, Thingummy Bob, and an adaptation of Alice Munro’s The View From Castle Rock for Stellar Quines and the EIBF.

Linda was the Creative Fellow at Edinburgh University’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities in 2011. She was Chair of the Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland from 2008–2015, and she is an artistic associate of Magic Theatre, San Francisco.

An anthology of her work, translated into French by Sarah Vermande and Blandine Pelissiér, was published in 2015 by Actes Sud-Papiers.

Publication Details

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Publication Date: 02 June 2016

Print Length: 88 pages (Ebook edition)

ISBN (Ebook): 9781780016948

Format: Ebook

Language: English

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