San Diego is a full-length drama by David Greig. With a multitude of characters struggling to make sense of their lives, San Diego offers a weird, wonderful and occasionally nightmarish journey of discovery into the heart of the American dream and our universal longing for a sense of home and community.

San Diego places a character called "David Greig" at the centre of a series of unfolding contemporary stories which reveal our search for some sort of spiritual identity in a secular age. A richly textured, tangled mesh of ideas and humanity where people consume or are consumed, where they search for meaning and "home" in deserts, meat packing plants, convents and bedrooms. In a kind of meta-wasteland of fractured relationships and psyches of the personal and social, it is underwritten by a playful theatricality. Inspired by playwright David Greig's first trip to America, San Diego weaves together a series of connecting and diverging stories, merging threads that stretch around the globe into a single compelling narrative of tremendous scope; stories of illegal immigrants, of pilots, actors and hookers, of daughters destroyed by their mental health, a multitude of Americans called Amy, of the making of Band on the Run and of the playwright himself.

San Diego premiered in 2003 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and won a Herald Angel award and the Tron Theatre Award. The play has been performed in college theatre productions as a showcase of student talent.

Cast: 3 women, 8 men

What people say:

"The writing is dazzling...." — The Independent

"His dialogue crackles with wit and starkly beautiful poetry, and his deeply troubled characters still feel keenly alive in their search for some kind of connection with something greater than themselves. San Diego may be profane and shocking at times, but it's also very smart and deeply moving." — Orange County Weekly

About the Playwright:

David Greig is a celebrated Scottish playwright. He was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Nigeria. In his near-30-year career, he has written an extensive and impressive catalogue of plays. His work has been produced by theatres across the UK. His plays have also been translated and produced in most of the countries of Europe, the USA and Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan and Korea.