The New Maw Broon Monologues by Jackie Kay

Designed by Amanda Stoodley
with music by Tom Urie & Alan Penman
Lighting design Dave Shea
Choreography Janice Parker

Starring TERRY NEASON & SUZANNE BONNAR

There’s not just one Maw Broon; there’s two of them. In this hilarious and heartbreaking show, Maw Broon and her doppelganger are having a mid-life crisis. They try everything in a quest to find out what reality is, to find happiness and love.

Maw Broon visits a therapist, goes on a reality TV show, meets Cameroon and Osbroon, fights against bedroom tax in the butt and ben. Maw Broon wonders where she fits in in the new 7 classes and where she stands on independence. She can’t stop moving; she can’t stop asking questions. She even looks to the moon. Brooned-off, broke and full of bravado, Maw Broon bravely goes where no Broon has gone before, holding up a sneaky mirror to the whole of Scottish society.

Don’t miss these riotous monologues with a crackling script by Jackie Kay and a fantastic score by Tom Urie & Alan Penman, this show might also be called Maw Broon the musical. With a fantastic new design by award-winning Amanda Stoodley and directed by Liz Carruthers, the new Maw Broon Monologues will make you think, laugh and cry. And make you wonder what is real and what is not.

“one of the most hilariously inventive investigations of Scottish kitsch culture to appear on stage since the 1980’s” The Scotsman (2009)

Photos by K K Dundas from Maggie Kinloch’s 2009 production

Glasgay Promotional Video 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJrKDVJGINs#at=34

Great clip highlighting events for 2013 to include Maw Broon Monologues

Follow link for Tron Theatre Ltd web page and ticket link

www.tron.co.uk/event/the-maw-broon-monologues

Suzanne Bonnar Biog Details

Suzanne Bonnar is a Scottish based vocalist and actress. Suzanne first hit the headlines in 1991 with the BBC Forty Minutes programme, Fly me to Dunoon. Her second documentary, The Blacksburg Connection was a winner at the Celtic TV Awards, won a bronze medal at The New York Film and TV Festival and was a finalist in the CRE Race in the Media Awards. It shows her meeting her father, a former American serviceman, for the first time, and traces the emotional discovery of her previously unknown heritage in South Carolina.

Already behind her are two acclaimed theatre shows, I Cover the Waterfront (the life story of Billie holiday), Every Bit of It (based on aspects of the blues and Bessie Smith) by first rate poet and novelist Jackie Kay(original score by Claire Van Kampen) and a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival with her own production Wild Women Don’t Sing the Blues.  Every Bit of It was also adapted for Radio 3.

As a vocalist she comes into her own, a complete natural.  Her background has given her an innate sense of Black American music – jazz, gospel and blues – and she has developed a voice which is smooth bluesy and seductive.
Recent projects include devising and performing “Ancestral Voices” during the year of Diversity which played at The Young Vic and Arches Theatre, Journey at the Tramway, directed by John Binnie, Lola Fraser in River City BBC Scotland, and Single Father written by Mick Ford and directed by Sam Miller, starringDavid Tennant and Suranne Jones for the BBC.

Ninian Dunnet, writing in The Scotsman put his finger on why Suzanne is so popular.  “…she bursts with edge and attack, and expression.  But her real gift is that precious thing, the intimacy which crosses divides…Bonnar’s range of dynamics and nuances is considerable: this is a rich personality which travels straight to the audience…” 

http://www.tayloredproductions.com/tayloredsuzannebonnar.htm

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/457735?view=synopsis