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Rona Munro

Scottish writer (born )

Rona Munro

Born () 7 September (age&#;65)

Aberdeen, Scotland

Occupation(s)Writer, playwright

Rona Munro (born 7 September ) is a Scottish writer.

She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television. Her film work includes Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird (), Oranges and Sunshine () for Jim Loach and Aimée & Jaguar (), co-authored by German director Max Färberböck. Munro is the second cousin (once removed) of Scottish author Angus MacVicar.[1]

Munro wrote the last serial of the original Doctor Who in , and returned to the show in , writing an episode for the tenth series of the revived version.

Rona munro biography Rona Munro (born 7 September ) is a Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television. Her film work includes Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird (), Oranges and Sunshine () for Jim Loach and Aimée & Jaguar (), co-authored by German director Max Färberböck.

This made her the only writer thus far who has worked in both the classic and revival eras of Doctor Who.[2]

Early life

Munro went to school in Stonehaven and studied at the University of Edinburgh, where she wrote plays for the Television Society. After graduating in , she was involved in the staging of the series of Women Live festivals at the Netherbow Theatre in Edinburgh.[3]

Career

Her first commissioned play was Fugue in This was followed in by Bold Girls, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Iron, first produced at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in and staged many times worldwide.[3]

Munro's work on Doctor Who was not limited to just Survival () and "The Eaters of Light" ().[4] She later novelised both stories for the original and revived range of Target Books, respectively.[5]

Her history cycle The James Plays, James I, James II, and James III, were first performed by the National Theatre of Scotland in summer in a co-production with Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre UK.

The plays were staged again in early She followed this up with James IV - The Queen of the Fight in , which concentrated on the presence of two black women at his court. Other theatre work includes plays for the Traverse Theatre (Your Turn To Clean The Stair, Strawberries in January translation), Manchester Royal Exchange (Mary Barton, Scuttlers), Plymouth Drum Theatre and Paines Plough (Long Time Dead), and the Royal Shakespeare Company (The Indian Boy, The Astronaut's Chair).

The James Plays were performed in the United States for the first time at Hillcrest High School in Midvale, Utah in early [6][7]

Munro has also contributed eleven dramas to Radio 4's Stanley Baxter Playhouse: First Impressions, Wheeling Them In, The King's Kilt, Pasta Alfreddo at Cafe Alessandro, The Man in the Garden, The Porter's Story, The German Pilot, The Spider, The Showman, Meg's Tale, and The Flying Scotsman.

In the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith presented Munro's adaptation of Richard Adams' classic book Watership Down. Her early television work includes episodes of the drama series Casualty (BBC) and, more recently, a BBC film, Rehab, directed by Antonia Bird.

Rona Munro currently lives and works in Scotland.

Her play The Last Witch was performed at the Edinburgh Festival, directed by Dominic Hill, and in by Dumbarton People's Theatre. Pitlochry Festival Theatre's production, directed by Richard Baron, toured Scotland in Also in , a production of her adaptation of My Name Is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney opened in London.

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A play about Katherine Hamilton, sister of Patrick Hamilton, is being performed on tour in

Awards

Works

Plays

  • The Bang and the Whimper,
  • The Salesman,
  • Fugue,
  • Bus,
  • Touchwood,
  • Ghost Story,
  • Piper's Cave,
  • Watching Waiters,
  • Biggest Party in the World,
  • Dust And Dreams,
  • The Way To Go Home,
  • Winners,
  • Off The Road,
  • Long Story Short,
  • Saturday at the Commodore,
  • Bold Girls, [8]
  • Scotland Matters,
  • Your Turn To Clean The Stair,
  • Haunted,
  • Federico García Lorca ().

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  • Snake,
  • Iron. Nick Hern Books.

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  • Stick Granny on the Roofrack,
  • Gilt,
  • Catch A Falling Star!,
  • Women on the Verge of a T Junction,
  • Indian Boy,
  • Long Time Dead,
  • The Maiden Stone,
  • Mary Barton,
  • Strawberries in January, (translation)
  • Watership Down,
  • Dirt Under The Carpet,
  • The Last Witch, [9]
  • Little Eagles,
  • The Astronaut's Chair,
  • Donny's Brain,
  • The James Plays,
    • James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock
    • James II: Day of the Innocents
    • James III: The True Mirror
  • Scuttlers,
  • Rebus: Long Shadows, [10]
  • My Name Is Lucy Barton,
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
  • James IV: Queen of the Fight, based on the life of the courtier Ellen More, [11][12]
  • Mary, based on the life of Mary Stuart,
  • James V: Katherine, [13]

Screen

References

  1. ^"Scots playwright Rona Munro has a unique honour".

    26 May

  2. ^Jeffery, Morgan (16 November ). "Doctor Who series 10 hires a writer from the classic series - but who?". Digital Spy. Retrieved 6 February
  3. ^ abMcMillan, Joyce, "Quietly, yet fiercely significant", in The Last Witch theatre programme, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, , p.

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  4. ^"Series Classic Writer Returns With "The Eaters of Light"". DoctorWhoTV. 16 November Retrieved 16 November
  5. ^Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light (Target Collection). 14 July
  6. ^"Hillcrest Theatre to Raise the Curtain on American Debut of "The James Plays"".

    Canyons School District. Retrieved 3 March

  7. ^Hardman, Jenny (28 February ). " years of Scottish history on stage at Hillcrest High School". Fox 13.

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    13. Midvale, Utah. Retrieved 3 March

  13. ^Douglas Gifford (). "Making Them Bold And Breaking The Mould: Rona Munro's Bold Girls". The Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Archived from the original on 13 May Retrieved 23 May
  14. ^Higgins, Charlotte (9 August ). "Rona Munro burns bright at Edinburgh".

    Rehab Scottish playwright and performer Rona Munro has established a tradition of writing about issues concerning gender and sexual politics. Although her plays are dramatic, she infuses them with comedy as well.

    The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October

  15. ^"Rebus: Rankin's gritty Scottish detective to make stage debut". The Guardian. 9 April Retrieved 22 August
  16. ^"James IV - Queen of the Fight &#; Glasgow &#; reviews, cast and info &#; WhatsOnStage". .

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  17. ^Hannan, Martin (25 June ).

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    21. "Sequel to successful historic plays set to show across Scotland". The National.

  21. ^Brennan, Clare (14 April ). "James V: Katherine review – queer love in the time of the Scottish kings". The Observer. Retrieved 16 April

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