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Gregory Burke


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Gregory Burke (born 1968) is a Scottish playwright from Rosyth, Fife, Scotland.

Gregory Burke's first play was Gagarin Way, set in the factories of West Fife. His play, Black Watch, for the National Theatre of Scotland, debuted at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival, meeting with critical acclaim, and has since been performed throughout Scotland and has also toured theatres in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. He has also written Occy Eyes, The Straits, Unsecured, On Tour, Liar and Shell shocked. His most recent play was Hoors, which opened at the Traverse Theatre on 1 May 2009.

His play Black Watch won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Play, the South Bank Show Theatre Award in 2007 and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best
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Black Watch

3.71 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Gagarin Way

3.80 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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Hoors

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The Straits

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On Tour

3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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7 Days in Entebbe

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Len Lye: Motion Sketch

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Black Watch

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Brodsky & Utkin: Palazzo Ne...

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Scott Lyall: The Color Ball

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Sergeant Aye. But when the fuck are any ay you lot ever again, in your whole fucking life, gonnay get the fucking chance tay write off a two-million-quid, state-ay-the-art piece ay kit?”
Gregory Burke, Black Watch

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