Gagarin Way, by Dunfermline playwright Gregory Burke, is a cruel, funny first play about a human heist gone horribly wrong.

Winner of the Meyer/Whitworth Award 2002, Winner of the Critics' Circle Award 2002 and winner of the Scotsman Fringe First of the Firsts Award 2001, Gregory Burke's 'sensational debut play' (Daily Telegraph) was premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and the Royal National Theatre, London, in 2001, transferred to the Arts Theatre, London, in 2002 and was revived for a tour of Scotland later that year.

Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke, winner of the Meyer/Whitworth Award 2002, winner of the Critics' Circle Award 2002, and winner of the Scotsman Fringe First of the Firsts Award 2001.

About the Author
Gregory Burke was born in Dunfermline in 1968. His plays include Gagarin Way (Traverse/National Theatre, 2001), which won the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award, Best New Play at the TMA Barclays Awards, was joint winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award and was nominated for the South Bank Show Theatre Award and Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play; The Straits (Paines Plough, UK tour, 2003), On Tour (Royal Court Theatre/Liverpool Everyman, 2005), Liar (National Theatre Shell Connections, 2006), Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland, world tour, 2006), which 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 New Play in 2009, and Hoors (Traverse Theatre, 2009).


Book Information
ISBN 9780571212361
Author Gregory Burke
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 97g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 7mm