Sharman Macdonald is an important part of the theatrical renaissance that started in Scotland in the 1980s. Her work puts strong emphasis on the personally felt experience, and she was immediately successful with her first performed play, When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout. This play opened at a fringe venue in London, the Bush Theatre, in 1984, and then transferred for a long run in the West End, initially starring Julie Walters. Nothing Macdonald has done since has quite matched this early success, and at various times she has announced that she will not work for the theater anymore. Indeed, before her next play was produced in 1989, she had two novels published, The Beast (1986) and Night, Night (1988). She has continued to work as a playwright, and her first play is now established as a modern classic and frequently revived. Macdonald is not a writer...