Description
Jo Clifford is one of Scotland’s most renowned playwrights, a Stonewall role model, a Saltire Society Outstanding Woman, and a proud father and grandmother living in Edinburgh. She is internationally known as a performer and acclaimed author of 100 plays. As a performer she is also best known for her Eve (which she co-wrote with Chris Goode) and which she has been touring in the UK and in Brazil in a National Theatre of Scotland production. As a playwright, her five play sequence Five Days Which Changed Everything has recently been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, her first play Losing Venice (first performed 1985) has recently been revived by the Orange Tree Theatre in London, her Anna Karenina has recently had a highly successful run in Tokyo, and her queer version of The Taming of the Shrew performed to great acclaim in Cardiff and Glasgow.
“I’ve been writing plays for forty years and in that time have written one hundred plays. I’m proud of all of them; but perhaps most proud of this one, because I know it has changed trans people’s lives for the better.”
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Praise for the tenth anniversary edition
Emma Frankland: As trans women we are connected to each other … our stories converge whilst at the same time our lives may wildly vary. That Queen Jesus can ring true in such different environments is testament to the universality of this work and I hope many more of my trans sisters get to share bread with her in years to come
Praise for Queen Jesus
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman: One of the most remarkable journeys in recent theatre history
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian: A humane, mischievous and loving solo show
