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One Good Beating (NHB Modern Plays)
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A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives.
A blackly comic play about a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father. Locking him in the coalshed as retribution for years of sniping, bullying and pain, they are both aching to use their fists on him for once. But he's not defeated. Yet... First staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 1999.
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Linda McLean
Linda McLean is a Scottish playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays include the award-winning Every Five Minutes, Any Given Day, Sex & God, strangers, babies, Shimmer, Riddance, One Good Beating, Thingummy Bob, and an adaptation of Alice Munro's The View From Castle Rock for Stellar Quines and the EIBF. Linda was the Creative Fellow at Edinburgh University's Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities in 2011. She was Chair of the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland from 2008–2015, and she is an artistic associate of Magic Theatre, San Francisco. An anthology of her work, translated into French by Sarah Vermande and Blandine Pelissiér, was published in 2015 by Actes Sud-Papiers.
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