Victoria
By: David Greig
Series: Methuen modern plays; Methuen modern plays
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Drama; Rural conditions
Description: Premiered at London's Barbican in 2000, 'Victoria' is a trilogy in one play, telling the story of three generations of rich and poor in the Scottish Highlands. Grasping the huge theme of the split in the country's culture between puritan repression and libertarian openness, it revolves around three different Victorias: a 1930s servant who emigrates when she becomes pregnant by a feckless student; a 1970s American geologist looking for oil, who marries the feckless student's son; the 1990s spoilt daughter of the American geologist.
Notes: Includes bibliography.