A report on Bill Findlay (writer)

Theatre programme for the 2012 production of The Guid Sisters

Scottish writer and theatre academic.

- Bill Findlay (writer)
Theatre programme for the 2012 production of The Guid Sisters

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Cencrastus

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Magazine devoted to Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs, founded after the Referendum of 1979 by students, mainly of Scottish literature at Edinburgh University, and with support from Cairns Craig, then a lecturer in the English Department, with the express intention of perpetuating the devolution debate.

Magazine devoted to Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs, founded after the Referendum of 1979 by students, mainly of Scottish literature at Edinburgh University, and with support from Cairns Craig, then a lecturer in the English Department, with the express intention of perpetuating the devolution debate.

Its founders were Christine Bold, John Burns, Bill Findlay, Sheila G. Hearn, Glen Murray and Raymond J. Ross.

Les Belles-sœurs

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Two-act play written by Michel Tremblay in 1965.

Two-act play written by Michel Tremblay in 1965.

In 1980, Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay translated the play into contemporary Scots as The Guid Sisters.

Atwood in 2015

Margaret Atwood

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Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.

Atwood in 2015
Atwood attends a reading at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, in September 2006.
A member of the political action group The Handmaid's Coalition

Findlay, Bill (1979), Interview with Margaret Atwood, in Cencrastus No. 1, Autumn 1979, pp. 2 – 6.

Hosanna (play)

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1973 play by French-Canadian writer Michel Tremblay.

1973 play by French-Canadian writer Michel Tremblay.

A Tron Theatre production of a translation of the play into contemporary Scots by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman was staged as part of Glasgow Mayfest in 1991.

Albertine in Five Times

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Play by Michel Tremblay.

Play by Michel Tremblay.

A Clyde Unity Theatre production of a translation into contemporary Scots by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman played at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in March 1998.

7:84

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Scottish left-wing agitprop theatre group.

Scottish left-wing agitprop theatre group.

Findlay, Bill (1982), review of Clydebuilt: A season of Scottish Popular Drama from the '20s, '30s and '40s, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 10, Autumn 1982, p. 39,

Updike at the PEN Congress, colorized

John Updike

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American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

Updike at the PEN Congress, colorized
Boyhood home in Shillington
Updike in 1989
Updike delivering the 2008 Jefferson Lecture

Findlay, Bill, Interview with John Updike in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 15, New Year 1984, pp. 30 – 36,

Brian Friel

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Brian Patrick Friel (c.

Brian Patrick Friel (c.

The childhood home of Brian Friel, at Omagh in County Tyrone
Translations on stage in Minsk
Statue of Friel (left) and John B. Keane in Dublin

Fionnlagh, Uilleam, (1983), Celtic Omphalos, a review of Translations, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 12, Spring 1983, pp 43 & 44,