Playwright, poet, musician; Born October 23, 1940; Died April 29, 2009.
Tom McGrath, who has died from cancer aged 68, was a playwright and polymath without whom the arts scene in Scotland would not have been as vibrant.
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Tom McGrath
Playwright, poet, musician; Born October 23, 1940; Died April 29, 2009.Tom McGrath, who has died from cancer aged 68, was a playwright and polymath without whom the arts scene in Scotland would not have been as vibrant. McGrath's plays began with Laurel and Hardy and The Hardman, both part of a long association with Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, and culminated in his final work, the quasi-autobiographical My Old Man.
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