Vile Sinner and other short plays by Linda McLean

Cast: varies between 2 and 5

"If the greatest challenge for a short play is to create a whole world in fifteen minutes then Linda McLean's short plays meet that challenge head on. Each of the five plays in this new collection is an exercise in conjuring, with haiku-like precision, a complete dramatic world. While the settings of these short plays vary wildly, from a hotel in Mexico, mid Apocalypse, to the red surface of the planet Mars via the obligatory family kitchen, they are all linked by McLean's unique facility for pared-down dramatic language and returning themes - schism in family relationships, and the cruel reflection of such breakdown in the natural or political world. And one thing remains constant: in the universes of McLean's short plays, all the characters take refuge in words as weapons."
Philip Howard, Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre 1996-2007

Available from February 2008

ISBN: 9781906220105
Price: £6.99