Gray Play Book

Alasdair Gray is a prolific and well respected author, playwright and artist whose works have included 'Lanark', arguably one of the best Scottish novels of our time; 'Unlikely Stories Mostly' (1983) and 'Poor Things' (1992) which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Alasdair Gray was born and brought up in Glasgow, where he still lives. His experiences there, as an art teacher, muralist and theatrical scene painter, provided material for the autobiographical elements in his novels. He designs his own books, from their bold dustjackets to their decorative covers, to their illustration and typography.

• 1944 The Cave of Polyphemus 1956 Jonah - a puppet play in five scenes 1966 The Fall of Kelvin Walker - a fable of the sixties 1968 Quiet People - a play for voices 1969 Mavis Belfrage - a romance of the sixties FOUR ONE ACT SEXUAL COMEDIES1971 Dialogue1973 Homeward Bound1973 Loss of the Golden Silence1973 Sam Lang and Miss Watson1973 The Man Who Knew About Electricity1975 McGrotty and Ludmilla - a political pantomime1975 Near the Driver - a one act play for voices1975 The Golden Key - a 30-minute radio verse play1976 The Rumpus Room - an opera libretto1984 Lanark - extract from storyboard of film script1985 The Story of a Recluse - a television script1993 Poor Things - a film script 1997 Working Legs - a play for people without themFOUR ONE ACT NOW PLAYS2006 Goodbye Jimmy2007 Midgieburgers2007 The Pipes! The Pipes!2008 Voices in the Dark2008 Goethe's Faust - the start of a modern adaptation

Alasdair proves that his imagination is anything but Gray...This beautiful volume is well worth buying.