Peter Arnott
Peter Arnott is a Scottish playwright. He began his career at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in May 1985 with White Rose (revived by Firebrand in 2013). That same month his play The Boxer Benny Lynch opened in Glasgow Arts Centre.
Other theatre work includes: Muir and Losing Alec (Tron Theatre); The Breathing House (TMA Best Play Award, 2003, Lyceum Theatre Company); A Little Rain, (7:84) and Cyprus (Mull Little Theatre and Traflagar Studios); his many adaptations include Neil Gunn's The Silver Darlings (His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen) which also toured throughout Scotland and was revived at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. In 2012 he wrote the script for the Vox Motus/Lyceum production The Infamous Brothers Davenport and adapted Robin Jenkins' The Cone Gatherers for His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen. He also won a Fringe First in Edinburgh in 2012 with Why Do You Stand There in the Rain?, performed by students from Pepperdine University in California. His first …more
Other theatre work includes: Muir and Losing Alec (Tron Theatre); The Breathing House (TMA Best Play Award, 2003, Lyceum Theatre Company); A Little Rain, (7:84) and Cyprus (Mull Little Theatre and Traflagar Studios); his many adaptations include Neil Gunn's The Silver Darlings (His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen) which also toured throughout Scotland and was revived at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. In 2012 he wrote the script for the Vox Motus/Lyceum production The Infamous Brothers Davenport and adapted Robin Jenkins' The Cone Gatherers for His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen. He also won a Fringe First in Edinburgh in 2012 with Why Do You Stand There in the Rain?, performed by students from Pepperdine University in California. His first …more
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Scottish Literature: An Introduction
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2022
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The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama
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2011
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Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 22)
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2013
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Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies
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1996
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The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre
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2025
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Setting the Stage: New Wave Scottish Drama of the 1970s and 1980s
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2025
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