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Quelques Fleurs
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A delicate exploration of memory, relationships, and time.
Perfect for audiences drawn to intimate, sophisticated drama.
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About the Ebook
A short play from the leading Scottish poet and playwright.
Verena and her oilman husband are childless, and their marriage is unravelling. In two intercut monologues which take place over the course of a year, we enter the hearts of each of them in turn.
Liz Lochhead's play Quelques Fleurs was first staged at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, in 1991.
Why You'll Love This Ebook
- Lyrical meditation on time, memory, and connection.
- Elegant exploration of human relationships.
- Published by Nick Hern Books, leading contemporary theatre publisher.
- Theatre of quiet beauty and depth.
About the Author
Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster.
Her original stage plays include Thon Man Molière, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Blood and Ice, Good Things and Perfect Days. Her many stage adaptations include Dracula, Molière’s Tartuffe, Miseryguts (based on Le Misanthrope) and Educating Agnes (based on L’École des Femmes); as well as versions of Medea by Euripides (for which she won the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2001), and Thebans (adapted mainly from Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone).
Her collections of poetry include Dreaming Frankenstein, The Colour of Black & White, A Choosing (Selected Poems), Fugitive Colours and True Confessions, a collection of monologues and theatre lyrics. She served a five-year term as Scotland's Makar, or National Poet, from 2011 till 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2015. She won the Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, and the 2023 Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Scottish literature .
Publication Details
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Publication Date: 02 December 2014
Print Length: 33 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9781780014449
Format: Ebook
Language: English
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