Made from Girders
Author
Chris Ballance
Chris Ballance has had sixteen plays produced - a mixture of plays for children, devised pieces, adaptations and work for a general audience. His play Water of Life won an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First, and Viva la Diva was runner-up in the South London Playwriting Competition as well as being shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. Four of his plays have received second productions.
Synopsis
A comedy based on the struggles of William MacGonagall, the bad Scots poet, set in Dundee in 1890. His struggle to have his abysmally bad verse recognised took him to New York and to Queen Victoria, and never did he give up.
The play was first produced by Theatremachine at Dundee Rep Theatre in 1993, and on tour to the Tron Theatre Glasgow (where it sold out) and around Scotland, and was subsequently produced by the Byre Theatre, St Andrews. View extract.
Cast
2 male, 2 female
Duration
100 mins
Contact
81 White Street
Glasgow
G11 5DD
Scotland
UK