Miseryguts

Cast: 3f 5m

Staging: 3 interior locations

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe
First Staged:
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 2002

Miseryguts

By Liz Lochhead Original author Molière
Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

Miseryguts is a bitter comedy about a worldly sophisticate who cannot help telling uncomfortable truths about his fellow men – and women, with one of whom, despite himself, he is deeply and painfully in love.

In this Scots version of Molière's play, Liz Lochhead transposes the action of the play into the world of media and politics in 21st-century, devolved Scotland, allowing for a rich seam of contemporary satire.

Miseryguts was first performed in March 2002 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.

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'Scotland's greatest living dramatist'

Scotland on Sunday

Cast: 3f 5m

Staging:3 interior locations

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

Also by Liz Lochhead:

Thon Man Molière
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
Educating Agnes
Good Things
Blood and Ice
Liz Lochhead: Five Plays
Thebans
Medea
Perfect Days
Dracula
Miseryguts & Tartuffe
Tartuffe
Medea
Quelques Fleurs
Cuba

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Also by Molière:

The Hypochondriac
Scapino
Tartuffe
The Miser
The Misanthrope
Tartuffe
Don Juan
The Learned Ladies

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