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The Artist Man and the Mother Woman
About This Book
How my wee boy, as naive and pastey as he is, could get a grown woman tae go weak at the knees, screaming, as it appears you wis last night. When he's nae so much as accidently brushed up against a wifie afore, and there's nae internet or dirty magazines in the hoose tae speak o. And I ken, I've checked under his mattress. Nut, nae contact wi anither female in the world. Oh. 'Cept his mammy o course. 'Cept his mammy. Geoffrey Buncher is an art teacher. Until now his only meaningful relationship has been with his mother, Edie, who doesn't want her 'wee man growing up too fast'. But when one day he reads in the newspaper that he's working in amongst the top ten sexiest professions, he decides to advertise in the local papers for a wife. Straying outside of his comfortable existence where his mother continues to buy her middle-aged son's Ribena, Geoffrey enters a frightening world of adulthood and female companionship that he struggles to adjust to. Attraction manifests itself in warped and disturbing ways and leads to a terrifying conclusion. Written in Morna Pearson's trademark 'lurid, post-modern Doric' ( Scotsman ), and with hints of Joe Orton and Harold Pinter, The Artist Man and the Mother Woman is a wickedly funny, deceptively simple, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional relationship. This world premiere was staged by the Traverse Theatre Company in the Traverse One space between 30 October and 17 November 2012, directed by Orla O'Loughlin.
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Geoffrey Buncher | Garry Collins |
Edie Buncher | Anne Lacey |
Thomas | Lewis Howden |
Evelyn | Lynn Kennedy |
Clara / Woman A / Woman B | Molly Innes |
Director | Orla O’Loughlin |
Designer | Anthony Lamble |
Composer / Sound Designer | Daniel Krass |
Lighting Designer | Richard Howell |
Assistant Director | Marta Mari |
Production Manager | Kevin McCallum |
Company Stage Manager | Gemma Turner |
Deputy Stage Manager | Catherine Devereux |
Assistant Stage Manager | Naomi Stalker |
Costume Supervisor | Kat Smith |
Voice and Dialect | Ros Steen |
Work for the Traverse includes: Mr Placebo, Strangers Babies, Broke, White Point, Distracted. Other work includes: The Tempest (Dundee Rep); Of Mice and Men, Comedy of Errors, Beauty and the Beast, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Venice Preserved, Queen of Spades, Snow White, Baby Doll, A Handful of Dust, Cleo Camping Emmanuelle and Dick (Citizens Theatre); Thank God for John Muir, Cyrano, New Voices (Òran Mór); Cave dwellers (7:84); Dr Korzacks Example (TAG); The Doll Tower (Unity Theatre); Fierce, Decky Does A Bronco, The Houghmagandie Pack (Grid Iron); Macbeth, Swan Song (Open Book); My Romantic History (Borderline); Under the Black Flag, Coriolanus (Shakespeare’s Globe). Film Credits include: Dear Frankie (Pathe films); I’m in away from here (Selected film for the 65th Venice Film Festival, Corto Cortissmo- nominee/ Acripelagio Film Festival Rome, Short Planet – Special Mention Award). Television work includes: Young Persons Guide to becoming a Rock Star, The Book Group (Channel 4); Life Support, WitchCraze (BBC); Radio Credits include: Quartet (BBC Radio 4); A Man’s World (BBC Radio 3); Side Effects (B.B.C. Radio 4)
Work for the Traverse includes: Any Given Day, Petrol Jesus Nightmare #5 (In the Time of the Messiah), The Nest, Olga, Knives in Hens, Loose Ends, The House Among the Stars. Recent theatre work includes: A Slow Air, Edwin Morgan’s Dreams and Other Nightmares (Tron); Rolls in their Pockets (Òran Mór); Beauty and the Beast, Educating Agnes (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh). Other Theatre includes: Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Tartuffe, Merlin, Mother Courage (with Derby Playhouse); Cuttin’ a Rug (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Our Teacher’s a Troll (National Theatre of Scotland); The Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness, A Dead Man’s Dying (Òran Mór / National Theatre of Scotland); Macbeth, Educating Agnes, Medea, King Lear (Theatre Babel); Defender of the Faith, The Beauty Queen of Leenanne, The Trick is to Keep Breathing (Royal Court Theatre); The Witches of Pollok (Tron); 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, The Big Funk, The Crucible, Glengarry Glen Ross (The Arches); No mean City, Nightingale and Chase (Citizens Theatre); Riddance (Paines Plough); F...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Epigraph
- Characters
- Scene One
- Scene Two
- Scene Three
- Scene Four
- Scene Five
- Scene Six
- Scene Seven
- Scene Eight
- Scene Nine
- Scene Ten
- Scene Eleven
- Scene Twelve
- Scene Thirteen
- Scene Fourteen
- Scene Fifteen
- Scene Sixteen
- Scene Seventeen
- Scene Eighteen
- Scene Nineteen
- Scene Twenty
- Scene Twenty-One
- Scene Twenty-Two
- Scene Twenty-Three
- Scene Twenty-Four
- Scene Twenty-Five
- Scene Twenty-Six
- Scene Twenty-Seven
- Scene Twenty-Eight
- Scene Twenty-Nine
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