Sue Glover | |
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 Glover in 2014 | |
| Born | 1943 Edinburgh |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh University |
| Occupation | playwright |
Sue Glover (born 1943, Edinburgh) is a Scottish playwright who has authored fictional works and adaptations for theater, radio and television. [1] In the 1970s she worked with Zorina Ishmail Bibby in St. Andrews.
Glover was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and graduated from Edinburgh University. While she lived the majority of her life in East Fife, she now lives close to the beach in East Neuk. [1] [2]
Glover's first play was The Seal Wife, which is set on a Scottish beach. [3]
Bondagers explored the social and working conditions of women laboring in the fields of the Scottish Borders. [3] It was produced four times by the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh with one of those companies going on to perform in Canada. [1] According to Ian Brown, Bondagers marks the "beginning, in modern Scottish theatre, of the removal of dramatic action from the enclosed areas of tenements, workplaces, kitchens of kitchen-sink drama into the open spaces of the beach, sea, fields and woods." [3]
Selected works have been translated for Czech, Finnish and Irish productions. For example, The Seal Wife, The Straw Chair and Bondagers were translated into Czech by David Drozd. [1]
In 2014, Glover participated in the Czech literary festival Month of Author's Reading, which is organized by the Brno publishing house Větrné mlýny, the same agency that shot the Czech television series "Scottish Reading - Don't Worry - Be Scottish," that was directed in part by Glover.
She has adapted works for radio by other authors including some by Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Tove Jansson and Jessie Kesson. She has created original plays for radio including: The Watchie, Shiftwork, The Benjamin, The Child & The Journey, The Doll's Tea Set, and Losing Lottie. [2]
The English premiere of The Straw Chair is scheduled for London's Finborough Theatre in early 2022." [4]
Glover is a fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. [1]
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