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She taught art in schools on both sides of the border for a number of years before turning to writing full time in 1980. Lochhead is a versatile performer, having shown herself adept in a number of different fields: poet, playwright, performer, and occasional theatre director. She has produced seven collections of poetry and has written or adapted some 18 plays which have garnered awards and huge critical acclaim both at home and abroad. Her adaptions of classics such as Dracula, Medea and Three Sisters and her translations of Moliere's Le Misanthrope and Tartuffe into rhyming Scots have been hailed as especially innovative, giving European material a very distinctive Scottish voice.