A Gray Play Book

This collection brings together some of Alasdair Gray’s best plays. This exciting work includes the unabridged scripts of four of his most famous dramas: The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1967) and Mavis Belfridge (1968) are both set in the ’60s, the former a fable and the later a true tale. McGrotty and Ludmilla (1975), a political pantomime and ‘the Modern Aladdin’; and Working Legs (1997), ‘A Play for People Without Them’. These are combined with four one-act sexual comedies written in the ’60s and ’70s; The Loss of Golden Silence, Dialogue, Homeward Bound and Sand Lang and Miss Watson. Plus an intriguing glimpse at the, as yet unmade, Lanark movie with sections of the original storyboard.

Reviews of A Gray Play Book

Over fifty years' worth of Alasdair Gray's dramatic works appear in the hugely enjoyable A Gray Play Book… Fans of Gray's self-termed 'comic fantasies' will also enjoy the candid prefaces that explain how each play was written and produced. SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS Scottish Review of Books Alasdair proves that his imagination is anything but Gray…This beautiful volume is well worth buying. 20120321