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One Good Beating
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A raw examination of violence, trauma, and the desire for revenge.
For audiences seeking unflinching, difficult drama.
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About the Ebook
A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives.
Linda McLean's short play One Good Beating is a blackly comic account of a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father. Locking him in the coalshed as retribution for years of sniping, bullying and pain, they are both aching to use their fists on him for once. But he's not defeated. Yet...
One Good Beating was first staged alongside plays by Riccardo Galgani and Iain Crichton as the triptych Family at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1999.
Why You'll Love This Ebook
- Unsparing portrayal of violence and its aftermath.
- Examination of trauma and human resilience.
- Published by Nick Hern Books, leading contemporary theatre publisher.
- Theatre that doesn't look away.
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: 12 May 2015
Print Length: 25 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9781780015699
Format: Ebook
Language: English
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