POSITIVE STORIES FOR NEGATIVE TIMES
Illustration by Molly Fairhurst
Illustration by Molly Fairhurst
2020 - 2023 online
An international participatory project produced in association with the Traverse Theatre reaching over 9000 young people in 17 countries. Seasons 1 - 3 have included the commissioning of 16 new plays including those by Tim Crouch, Bryony Kimmings, Stef Smith, Sabrina Mahfouz, Douglas Maxwell, Chris Thorpe and many more. Season 3 included the creation and delivery of youth theatre festivals at the Traverse (Edinburgh), Gaiety (Ayr), Eden Court (Inverness) and Perth Theatre. positvestories.scot.
AND THEN COME THE NIGHTJARS
Illustration by Molly Fairhurst
2022 - The Fullarton, Castle Douglas
A play by Bea Roberts produced in with Crossmichael Drama Club exploring the foot and mouth crisis of 2001 and its effects on the community of Dumfries and Galloway. Accompanied by a digital archive.
549.scot
2019 - online
A digital archive and AR installation accompanying national tour of 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War.
549: scots of the spanish civil war
2019 and 2022 national tours
A play telling the true stories of four men from Prestonpans that went to fight in the Spanish Civil War by Jack Nurse and Robbie Gordon. We toured two versions of the show, one for town halls and one for main stages.
'Black Watch reimagined for a small town function room' The Herald ★★★★
STORIES TO CONNECT US
2020 - online
A digital season of work including The Coolidge Effect, New Normal in association with Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Young Company and Home Made in association with MGA Academy, Edinburgh
THE COOLIDGE EFFECT
2020 - online
An audio play by Jack Nurse and Robbie Gordon exploring pornography addiction.
'... rambling happily all over the unnecessary trenches that divide podcast from radio plays and radio plays from theatre to create a hybrid in which fiction and fact, the imagined and the found audio collide' Lyn Gardner, Stage Door
LAMPEDUSA
2017 - Citizens Theatre
A play about the migrant crisis by Anders Lustgarten.
'A zeitgeist-capturing evocation of hope' The Herald ★★★★