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= Clare McIntyre = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lindsay Clare McIntyre (21 July 1952 - 27 November 2009) was among the feminist playwrights who contributed to the deconstruction of traditional forms of female representation. She debuted on the British feminist theatre scene as an actress and deviser for the Women’s Theatre Group in the 1970s, and emerged as a female writer with allegiance to feminist issues a decade later.

Biography
She was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in 1952 and grew up in Woldingham, Surrey, to later move to Manchester to study drama at the University of Manchester. Before devoting herself to full-time feminist playwriting, she worked as an actress in repertory theatre and film.

Major works
Characterised by a humorous and imaginative style, poignant dialogue and complex characters, her plays shrewdly expose feminist concerns such as women's anxieties over personal relationships, their bodies and pornography. Among the many awards she received for her theatre pieces are the Beckett Award in 1989 and the Evening Standard and London Drama Critic's Most Promising Playwright Award in 1990. She won the former for Low Level Panic and the latter for My Heart's a Suitcase (1990). Both plays were performed at the Royal Court Theatre and depict women dealing with the concerns engendered by an inhospitable world. McIntyre's other pieces of theatre include: Better A Live Pompey Than A Dead Cyril (1980), I've Been Running (1986), No Warning For Life (1992), The Thickness of Skin (1996), Beware Of Pity (1998), Bob's Play (1999), The Changeling (2001) and The Maths Tutor (2003).