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Liz Lochhead (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet and dramatist.〔(BBC profile )〕 ==Background== Lochhead was born in Motherwell and raised in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire,〔(Scottish Poetry Library profile )〕 and later attended Glasgow School of Art. She lectured in fine arts for eight years before becoming a professional writer. In the early 1970s, Lochhead joined Philip Hobsbaum's writers' group, a crucible of creative activity – other members were Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington.〔Peter Childs and Michael Storry (eds), ''The Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture''. Routledge: 2009, p.311.〕 Her plays include ''Blood and Ice'', ''Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'' (1987), ''Perfect Days'' (2000) and a highly acclaimed adaptation into Scots of Molière's ''Tartuffe'' (1985). She adapted the medieval texts of the ''York Mystery Plays'', performed by a largely amateur cast at York Theatre Royal in 1992 and 1996.〔http://www.yorkmysteryplays.org〕 Her adaptation of Euripides' ''Medea'' won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2001. Her plays have been performed on BBC Radio 4: ''Blood and Ice'' (11 June 1990), ''The Perfect Days'' (16 May 1999), ''Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'' (11 February 2001) and ''The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Mortal Memories'' (26 June 2006). Her adaptation of Helen Simpson's short story ''Burns and the Bankers'' was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Burns Night, 25 January 2012.〔(BBC – Afternoon Drama – '' Burns and the Bankers '' )〕 Like her work for theatre, her poetry is alive with vigorous speech idioms; collections include ''Memo For Spring'' (1972), ''True Confessions and New Clichés'' (1985), ''Bagpipe Muzak'' (1991) and ''Dreaming Frankenstein: and Collected Poems'' (1984). She has collaborated with Dundee singer-songwriter Michael Marra to whom she dedicated the poem 'Ira and George'.〔'Ira and George', ''The Colour of Black and White'' (Polygon: 2003), p.8〕 In 2005,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/liz-lochhead )〕 Lochhead became the Poet Laureate for Glasgow, a position she held until stepping down in 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/19/liz-lochhead-makar-scotland-national-poet )〕 when she was named as the second Scots Makar, or national poet, succeeding Edwin Morgan who had died the previous year. She is currently the Honorary President of the Caledonian Cultural Fellows at Glasgow Caledonian University.〔http://www.gcu.ac.uk/theuniversity/aboutglasgowcaledonian/culturalfellows/lizlochheadhonorarypresident/〕 She was writer in residence at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 1980.〔http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/the-writings-on-the-wall-1.721079〕 She is a vocal supporter of Scottish independence, having performed with pro-independence group National Collective〔http://nationalcollective.com/2013/10/14/documenting-yes-national-collective-glasgow-launch-party/〕 and written in ''The Guardian'' that Robert Burns would have voted for independence.〔http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/24/robert-burns-vote-scottish-independence〕 Lochhead provided guest vocals on the track 'Trouble is Not a Place' from the 2014 EP ''The Bird That Never Flew'' by Glasweigan experimental hip hop group Hector Bizerk.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://clips.stv.tv/g/v/vfLSx2kGLhY )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liz Lochhead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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