David Greig © Aly Wight
He studied English and drama at the University of Bristol and has been staged at several of the most important British theaters.
A selection of David Greig titles:
CASANOVA
3 F / 2 M
Greig’s modern Casanova is a spy and double agent, who works undercover in his eternal intercontinental search for pleasure. One day his female benefactor requires him home in order to exhibit all his secrets from the sexual underworld. Unaware, he is followed by an armed female private detective. A witty and seductive comedy.
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EVENTS, THE
1 F / 1 M / choir
A female priest works with integration of immigrants in a small community. She has started a choir where everyone who wants to, can join. One day a young man turns up at a rehearsal, but he doesn’t participate in the singing and walks away. When he returns, he pulls out a gun and starts shooting at people. How can anyone think of doing something that cruel? How far does forgiveness and empathy stretch in the face of atrocity, and how is it possible to heal the wounds? Tragedy, obsession and the destructive urge to comprehend the incomprehensible are central issues in David Greig’s response to the events at Utøya in 2011.
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OUTLYING ISLANDS
1 D / 3 H
A poetic and deeply mesmerizing drama about love, concerning a young woman and two young men who are brought together by destiny at a remote island in the North Atlantic. With this play the author investigates human boundaries and lets an unhappy soul be driven to death by passion.
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SAN DIEGO
4 F / 6 M
Grieg takes a look at the global society by exploring the concept of “home”, as well as our need to belong. With the cabin as the natural habitat, aboard a Boeing 737 with the pilot as the central character, David Grieg takes us on a flight between the continents. In the play he connects a series of independent episodes with a convincing grip: Stories about illegal immigrants, pilots, film stars, homeless people, and call girls named Amy, as well as the murder of an author named Grieg. It’s a surreal, comical and very relevant voyage of discovery, forcing us out of our accustomed thought loops.
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MIDSUMMER
David Greig (text) & Gordon McIntyre (music)
1 F / 1 M
It’s midsummer in Edinburgh and it’s raining. A man and a woman in their 30s are sitting in a bar waiting for something to happen. He is a used car salesman and she is an expensive divorce lawyer with a taste for other women’s husbands. They are far from each other’s types and should definitely not have anything to do with each other… With £ 15,000 in cash, an adventurous weekend begins with car chases, ruined weddings, burnt bridges, bondage clubs, wild hangovers, midnight dates – and a whole new life. A poetic and playful text with songs.
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COSMONAUT’S LAST MESSAGE TO THE WOMAN HE ONCE LOVED IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, THE
2 F / 4 M
This play brings several stories together: Two forgotten Soviet cosmonauts orbit a world that cannot hear them; A Scottish civil servant, in the throes of a midlife crisis, takes a brave step into the unknown; A Norwegian peace negotiator scours the world to retrieve the tape of his Russian girlfriend’s breath as she stands gazing at the stars and dreaming of her childhood back home; An Edinburgh speech therapist arrives in Provence searching for clues to her husband’s whereabouts. Instead she finds Bernard, a UFO researcher, who very probably knows all the answers. As they don’t speak the same language they drink red wine and dance under the stars. David Greig explores our inability of communication, our desperate need to connect and the incessant search for harmony and peace.
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COSMONAUT’S LAST MESSAGE TO THE WOMAN HE ONCE LOVED IN THE FORMER SOVJET UNION, THE
