The Monstrous Heart

Oliver Emanuel (1980-2023) was a playwright based in Glasgow. Work included: Everything, BBC Radio 4; One Night In Iran, Oran Mor/BBC Radio 3; Elvis in Prestwick, BBC Radio 4; John, Visible Fictions; Daniel & Mary, BBC Radio Scotland; Videotape, Oran Mor; Flit, National Theatre of Scotland; Magpie Park, West Yorkshire Playhouse; Bella & The Beautiful Knight, Silver Tongue Theatre, Vienna Theatre Project and Comedy Theatre, Bucharest. Adaptations included: The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe, BBC Radio 4. He was Writer-in-Resident for BBC Radio 4/Children in Need and Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. He was under commission to BBC Radio 4, STV, the Scottish Refugee Council, and worked on a text with Alison Peebles for the National Theatre of Scotland.