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Alasdair Gray's Fleck

After a sell-yer-granny-for-a-ticket debut at Edinburgh International Book Festival last year, Alasdair Gray's modern adaptation of Faust gets another outing courtesy of Margins Book and Music Festival, with an equally starry cast including Alan Bissett, Allan Wilson, Zoe Strachan, Louise Welsh, Chiew Siah-Tei, Rodge Glass, Carl MacDougall and Gray himself.

Elsewhere on the web

The Herald: The Comedy of Fleck, RBS Main Theatre, Edinburgh International Book Festival (4 stars)
Scotsman.com: Alasdair Gray's Fleck (review)

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From the Margins – Adrian Searle, Alasdair Gray

From the Margins – Adrian Searle, Alasdair Gray

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Adrian Searle, co-editor of Gutter magazine and publisher at Freight Books Which artist, writer, musician, filmmaker would you reclaim from the 'margins'? Walker Hamilton is a writer I'd reclaim. Originally from Airdrie, he died at the tragically…

Alasdair Gray prepares for a second reading of Fleck - interview

Alasdair Gray prepares for a second reading of Fleck - interview

Scots version of Faust myth to be performed at Margins Book Festival

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Alan Bissett, Helen Fitzgerald and Allan Wilson survey the current literary lansdscape

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Profile: Louise Welsh, author of The Cutting Room and Naming the Bones

Profile: Louise Welsh, author of The Cutting Room and Naming the Bones

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Will Self

Will Self

The author on his upcoming reading of Fleck with Alasdair Gray

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I’ve known Alasdair Gray for a long time now, nearly 20 years. We had the same publisher in England and he came to one of my events in Glasgow, probably in about 1982 or ‘83. We did some other events together around that time and struck up a…

Precious

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Author of "Push" among highlights of this years International Book Festival

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Unbound

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Alasdair Gray's Fleck, Kristin Hersh and Heather Brooke among picks

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An event with the writer of landmark works such as Lanark and Poor Things is exciting enough, but the Book Festival has cranked up the fever to 11 with another excellent first. In 2007 Gray wrote Fleck, an adaptation of Goethe's Faust and the closing…

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2011 programme

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2011 line up highlights

Grant Morrison, Will Self and Jo Nesbø among highlights

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