BOOKS PREVIEW
Complex. 3‘) Ardeiicraig Road. An energetic and provoking reading from hip- hop dancer and performance poet .lonzi D plus a reading from Adebayo's first award-winning novel Some Kind of Black. I Ajay Close, Carole Morin and Tracey Herd Fri 4 Oct. 7.30pm. Free. Castlemilk Library. l()() Castlemilk Drive. A celebration of female Scottish writing
a thouuht you were.‘ Citing 1930s and l940s Hollywood J t gangster movies starring James Cagney "S e and Edward G. Robinson as his all-time - favourites. Cullen is aware of the importance of teaching structure and technique to budding screenwriters and
Now celebrating its fourth birthday. the playwrights. ‘I think that only by
Castlemilk Writers‘ Festival has addressing the questions of structure with journalist turned crime author Close. broadened its outlook when it comes to can you free the creativity.‘ he says. 509mm C"Pi" M00" and Dundee-based vibrant new writing talent. ‘llollywood has a bad reputation fora PO“ Hcrd- incorporating theatre and screenwriting lot of the junk produced. but they also Mike Pull” Sin.“ 0“ loam—4pm .
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The man behind the festival's Way. which have the same incredible main preview
screenwriting workshop 'I'liree Act tight structure and power as those black I Brian Patton and Lena Sissay Sat 5 Hu/lvirmid Script is Mike Cullen. The and white Cagney movies.‘ Oct. 7.30pm. Free. Birgidale Complex. l0 playwright came to public prominence Another important aspect ofCullen‘s Slral’imfm 51ft“. CilSllL‘milk- Th6 man in l()()} with The Cut. a production workshop relates to his belief in respo'mblg tor popumlismg pogry i" [he exploring life in a coal mining ‘eiiabling access to folk not normally c' J' smne 60$ alongs'dc pals Adm" Hen” and
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criticallv-acclaimed 'I'lie (‘nllee/lmt. ‘ p .. . H ‘ ' I llavld Graig Wed 2 Oct. 2—5pm. Free. “kumymg dOUbk 'M'
Cullen is well-placed in the tutoring Traverse Theatre‘s schools outreach C I .lk C _ C pl . . . . . . . . . . g 3' _ role. He is writer-iii-residence with initiative Class Act. where playwrights. ‘1 [ em! °.'“"‘"""Y em“
Ed’ b ‘Ul " T" " " ' Tl " t ' ‘ ' l l ' ‘ (lll“ ‘tors and actors work with cmucm'lk Dnvc' Glasgow The [dented l." m“: 1.5 with“ NI.“ IL ‘mf m“ LL ‘ .‘ ‘ ' young playwright behind The Architect an impressive string ot IV and liliii schoolchildren to develop short plays holds a workshop exploring "cw ways of
work in the pic-production and pre- later produced at The Traverse. ‘As a incorporating imagery and poetry in“) screening stage. Besides working on a kid I lived in a very working-class writing for theatre. screenplay of The (in. and Underdogs. mining area of Tranent where the only I C. J. Stone and John l. Williams Wed 2 a cop series set on a peripheral experience you had of theatre was 00‘. 730W“: Free-.Casucmmf l-lbrar)" Edinburgh housing estate. he has going to a pantomime.‘ he explains. ‘l 500 Cl‘lS‘lc'1‘1'k Dfl‘t’cs-IA Wadimg from - - ‘ ~ n - ~ e - l ir ll! unit is one w iose new written for Scottish lelevision s new think that still exists nowadays. so ” ‘ UGO ‘ . dr im 1 s ii ll (‘ lllll/ll st llllll” John mythin“ tli it ltLl s to hit 1k down those novel hm", Dummy “plows mosc 11.“‘.\‘.(' fl"... 1’ 1 ',‘ "‘ .‘ .. . . .. L L t r ' . c . t I p t .‘ I livmg outside mainstream British culture. Hannah. ' baiiicis ol 1 ic t icatic icing a p are and from wmmms' whose novel faith/t,” ‘I remember going along to the where only snobs go. can only be a profiles the generation dubde Thatcher's Traverse Theatre workshops in l‘)‘)2.‘ good thing.‘ children‘, says Cullen. ‘and later the one-to-one 'I‘lie (.‘us/Iemilk Writer-3' I-‘gmml is I Susie Magritte Thurs 3 Oct. 2pm. Free. tuition I received by fantastic people from Wed 2—SuI 5 October: Mike Cullen The Fm‘gc QQHUY- '3 CaSllCWll‘ . like Chris Harman and Iain Heggie at will give a .i‘r‘reenri'ritirig workshop at 3‘“:an- r/r'tcg: “if”; an.“ §)'°d'.‘0r[0t . - ~ . . . .. . ') .- )w ""3 s' "ch eams The Tron. I think the tnost important the Custlemrlk Writers l-esm'ul. ” “l” J u. H, l‘ u "‘ fl“. thin ' '1 worksho can do is yiv ‘ you a C I lit 1 'l ‘ ' 100 C I 'Ik Up With Clam”: ream magazmc tor an ,, ' \ hp I j‘licbglgi ' "1"“"5 ""“'-" ‘ "m 6"" afternoon of bittersweet luurve and roses. sum." 0 L0" K the" ‘uu 5L ' I .lL t 1;“ [)I'll't’. (I/(ngUW ()Il .8015 ()(‘l. I Jami n and "In" ‘debavo Thurs you re not as stupid as you originally minim/mi. I'ree. Oct. 7.30pm. £3/£l.50. Castlemilk Youth Mike Cullen
Waterstone’s East End
Tuesday 24th Sept 7pm Andrew O’Hagan & Tim Lott
0n the eve of the announcement of this year’s Waterstone's/Esquire award for non fiction one shortlisted author and one judge will be here to read from their work. Andrew O'Hagan from his acclaimed The Missing (Picador £5.99) and Tim Lott from
The Scent of Dried Roses (Viking £16) a son's confessional and memorial to his mother...
83 George Street Edinburgh EH2 3ES 0131 225 3436
Tuesday 24th Sept 7.30pm New York’s hottest new talent
SAPPHIRE
will be reading from her first novel
PUSH
(Saker £9.99) Free tickets
Wednesday 25th September 7pm
John BIashford-Snell & Rula lenslia
Thursday 26th Sept 7 .30pm BBC Studios Queen Street
NICK DAN ZIGER
will be here to give an illustrated lecture based on their TV documentary and book Mammoth Hunt: In Search of the
Giant Elephant of Nepal (Collins £16.99)
award winning travel writer, reading from
DAN ZIGER’S BRITAIN
his new book about the “other British” Tickets £2.00 redeemable against book at the event.
Tickets Free Wine will be served.
13/14 Princes Street 0131 556 3034
30 The List 20 Sept-3 Oct I996