"Heggie's cut-across dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed" (Times Educational Supplement)Set in the back garden of a block of flats on two Sunday mornings, An Experienced Woman Gives Advice is a sharply observed comic tale of experience and innocence, insecurities and prejudices, all explored in Heggie's trademark raw and eloquent style.

An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Heggie, Iain

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

A caustic new comedy by one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrightsWhen Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to meet his family. Derek's mother is in a nursing home, resentful of June, the patient with no arms and legs, who gets all the attention. The only saving grace is her care assistant Larry - a camp, ageing clubber. However, what Derek and Kath don't know is that Larry holds the key to a few secrets that are perhaps best left in the closet...Published to coincide with its premiere in July 2001 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh"Cut-cross dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed" (TES)"The dialogue cuts into paradox, swagger and self defence as keenly as a surgeon's knife" (Observer)

Wiping My Mother's Arse (Methuen Modern Plays)

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An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (Modern Plays)

Wiping My Mother's Arse (Methuen Modern Plays)