Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premières in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Traverse Theatre Company productions
 The Speculator is set in Paris in 1720. The French playwright Pierre Marivaux is playing games with love and chance. Europe is in chaos. And John Law, a Scot from Edinburgh, is the richest and most powerful man in the world. He upsets order and alters the value of money. How long can his influence last? David Greig's new play is a rambunctious costume drama that toys with history and questions whether imagination can, or should, triumph over truth. Some events in the play are true. The rest is speculation. The Meeting, translated by John London, follows a string of chance encounters. A businessman on a journey crosses paths and shares his life with those of passing strangers. An old man is convinced there is buried treasure in the city park. A watchmaker talks to him about time. A young man and a traveller speak of their discontent. Shared pasts and common desires create a web of complexity in Luisa Cunillé's challenging new play, turning random meetings into rendezvous with destiny."David Greig is the most consistently interesting, prolific and artistically ambitious writer of his generation" (Scotsman); "Frequently compared to Harold Pinter...Cunillé has discovered a special style" (ABC, Madrid)

The Speculator and The Meeting (Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Greig, David

Cunillé, Lluïsa

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Enigmatic and even elliptical, these three Catalan plays represent elements of a more "European," less "UK" dramatic style, with echoes of early Pinter. "The Sale" is an apparently nonpolitical work concerned with three characters involved in the selling and buying of an apartment—solitary souls who are lost in the desert of the modern world, seeking an arm to cling on to so that they may be saved. A collision between the personal and the political, "The Party" presents a past affair that might just rekindle alongside present corruption. Can he persuade her not to cause trouble for the party leadership, or will she ignore the feelings she still has for him to bring the leadership down? "Black Beach" is more naturalistic, but even it does not fully reveal the politics of the party.

Black Beach: Three Catalan Plays

Coca, Jordi

Casas, Joan

Parthian Books

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