by Maja Ardal
Some lived to accuse him wha’ struck the first blow
But gone was the house of MacDonald
An Iceland-born Canadian, Maja Ardal was schooled in Scotland. She is a playwright, performer, theatre instructor, the former artistic director of Young People’s Theatre (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People) and a core member of Contrary Company. She wrote Midnight Sun, produced by Tarragon Theatre and the National Arts Centre, and published by Playwrights Canada Press. Over her thirty-seven-year career she has directed at The Shaw Festival, The Grand Theatre and Alberta Theatre Projects among others. For her illustrious career, Maja was the recipient of the 2002 George Luscombe Award for Mentorship in the Theatre. Maja is playwright in residence at Nightwood Theatre, and is writting The Cure for Everything, a sequel to You Fancy Yourself.
You Fancy Yourself © Copyright 2001 by Maja Ardal
“Sofdu Unga Astin Min” Icelandic traditional (written as pronouced)
“The Massacre of Glencoe, ”Words and music by Jim MacLean. Published by Duart Music, London. Permission granted.
“Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad” by Robert Burns
“Highland Fairy Lullaby” Scottish traditional
“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
“Scotland the Brave,” Scottish traditional
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Ardal, Maja, 1949-
You Fancy Yourself [electronic resource] / Maja Ardal
A play.
Electronic monograph.
Issued also in print format.
ISBN 9781770912311
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I. Title.
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Table of Contents
Cover Song Credits
Introduction
Playwright’s notes
Notes on music and language
The Massacre of Glencoe
Characters
Locales
Act One Leith Docks, Edinburgh, Scotland, September, 1953
A few days later, in a tenement flat in Edinburgh
September, 1954, The Meadows
Bruntsfield Public School classroom, 1957
School playground
Elsa’s flat, a week later
Bruntsfield School classroom
The playground, a week later
Act Two Bruntsfield School classroom
The playground
Later that day at The Meadows
The next day, Bruntsfield School playground
The next day at school
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Music
Bio
Copyright
