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Featuring trouserless bankers, talking dogs, flying taxis and a razor-sharp parody of the workings of politics, King of Scotland is an outrageous Fringe First-winning monologue.  This volume also contains the biting satire The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer. Set in 1780, Glasgow is booming, but the American war is looming, and the city's wealth is dependent on the import and export of American tobacco. 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American Bagpipes: Sandra has returned to Glasgow from New Jersey, to take her mother Rena away with her. Her brother Patrick comes home from prison to see if he can stay in the same room as his father without hitting him. \"A powerful, quirky, funny and virtually Euripidean domestic comedy that surprises as much as it delights\" (Times).  The Sex Comedies are six short, sleazy sketches about sexual anticipation in which the characters are left gagging with expectation or comically foiled. \"Peppered with colloquial wit, these cartoons unfurl with real brio\" (Time Out)Iain Heggie has won several awards, including the John Whiting Award and two Scotsman Fringe Firsts.  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