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Biographical note
Linda McLean is a Scottish playwright based in Glasgow. Her plays include Glory on Earth, Every Five Minutes, Any Given Day, Sex & God, strangers, babies, Shimmer, Riddance, One Good Beating, Thingummy Bob, and an adaptation of Alice Munro’s The View From Castle Rock for Stellar Quines and the EIBF. Linda was the Creative Fellow at Edinburgh University’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities in 2011. She was Chair of the Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland from 2008–2015, and she is an artistic associate of Magic Theatre, San Francisco. An anthology of her work, translated into French by Sarah Vermande and Blandine Pelissiér, was published in 2015 by Actes Sud-Papiers.<p>'Thrilling... a spirited portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots and her girl gang'</p>
Guardian
<p>'A story crying out to be told… a call to arms for young women everywhere, to be fearless, regret nothing and to dance for dear life itself'</p>
Herald
<p>'A clever and satisfying piece of theatre… asks big questions but frames them within a fascinatingly local context… the roots of Scotland's religious divide open up a debate with universal resonance'</p>
The Stage
<p>'Compelling… McLean's big structural innovation is to place at the centre of the action a female chorus who play all the other roles, from courtiers to reformers to Privy Councillors. More importantly, however, they also act as the externalisation of Mary's own thoughts, and the queen's dialogue flows in and out of theirs symbiotically. It's very effective, and reinforces this as a woman's "unsilencing" of a previously male story'</p>
WhatsOnStage
<p>'Audacious… McLean's language is elevated, rich and crisp'</p>
Telegraph
<p>'Witty and playful'</p>
The Times