Beaton, Alistair

Alistair Beaton is a well-known Scottish playwright and political satirist, whose plays and translations include "Feelgood", "King of Hearts" and "Follow My Leader", Max Frisch's "The Arsonists", and Brecht's" The Caucasian Chalk Circle". For television, he wrote the award-winning "A Very Social Secretary" (2005) and the Channel 4 film "The Trial of Tony Blair" (2007). His most recent play, "Caledonia", was a co-production between the Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Scotland and was staged at the Kings Theatre Edinburgh in 2010.