One Way Street (NHB Modern Plays)

A play from the author of The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Victoria and Pyrenees.

A one-man show set in eastern Berlin in 1995, in which Flannery tells us his life story in the form of a guide to the city.

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David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and studied at Bristol University. In 1990 he co-founded (with Graham Eatough) Suspect Culture, with which he is now Dramaturg; he has collaborated on and written eight shows for the company, including One Way Street (1995), Airport (1996), Timeless (1997).

His other plays include The Events; Damascus; Midsummer; Europe and The Architect (Traverse); Stalinland (Citizens', Glasgow); Petra (TAG Theatre Co.); Caledonia Dreaming (7:84 Scotland); and adaptations of The Ubu Plays (Almeida) and Oedipus the King (Theatre Babel). He has written two films: Nightlife (BBC Scotland) and Nothing in the Whole Wide World (United Broadcasting). For radio: Copper Sulphate (BBC Radio 3).