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Sex & God

  • Linda McLean
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 20th Century
  • 4F
  • ISBN: 9781848423008

Four women from different moments in the twentieth century talk across time in Linda McLean's extraordinary play about faith, lust and family.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 20th Century
  • Target Audience: Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Four women from different moments in the twentieth century talk across time in Linda McLean's extraordinary play about faith, lust and family.

Jane, a kitchen maid, the first in her family to move to the big city for work; Lizzie, passionate but unskilled and permanently dodging poverty; Sally, an early school-leaver who escapes a dangerous relationship by working her way into a profession; and Fiona, first in her family to go to university and discover a world of bewildering choices.

Linda McLean's play Sex & God was first performed at Platform, Glasgow, in October 2012 in a production by Magnetic North.

Also included in this volume is a short play, What Love Is, first performed at Òran Mór, Glasgow, in 2011.

REVIEWS:

"Beautiful and delicate."

 The Guardian

"The range of images she creates, and the sympathetic imagination that drives her writing, is never less than moving."

 Scotsman

"Perhaps her most ambitious [work] to date... a powerful collage of embattled lives, repeatedly obstructed and frustrated by economic and social hardships."

 The List

Premiere Production: Platform, Glasgow, 2012.
  • Casting: 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers, All Female

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Four women from different moments in the twentieth century talk across time in Linda McLean's extraordinary play about faith, lust and family.

Jane, a kitchen maid, the first in her family to move to the big city for work; Lizzie, passionate but unskilled and permanently dodging poverty; Sally, an early school-leaver who escapes a dangerous relationship by working her way into a profession; and Fiona, first in her family to go to university and discover a world of bewildering choices.

Linda McLean's play Sex & God was first performed at Platform, Glasgow, in October 2012 in a production by Magnetic North.

Also included in this volume is a short play, What Love Is, first performed at Òran Mór, Glasgow, in 2011.

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