THE SKINNY

The Skinny presents the launch of a new collected edition of Alasdair Gray’s plays. A Gray Play Book contains not only a number of plays written for the stage or radio, but also personal notes, storyboards for an unmade film of Lanark, and a film script of Poor Things.
The plays themselves stretch from The Cave of Polyphemus, a story from the Odyssey about the blinding of the Cyclops written by a nine year old Gray for school, to 2008’s Voices In The Dark. Amongst the plays are various works that later surfaced in other formats, whether that be novels (The Fall of Kelvin Walker) or short stories (Mavis Belfrage, McGrotty and Ludmilla).
The event will feature Gray performing extracts from these very plays and engaging in conversation on the book and his career. Don’t miss what promises to be a fascinating insight into the career of one of Scotland’s most respected authors.

A Gray Play Book retails at £25 in paperback, but a free copy of the uncorrected pre-publication edition of the book will be given to every student attending this event on production of a valid student card