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T575660610Readings from seven new plays. Get in at ground level with the most exciting playwrights of the future, from Canada, USA, England and Scotland. An American news team sets out to produce the happiest story in the history of American media. Darren seeks salvation in the black gold struck outside a small Alberta town. A tricksy raven intends to keep Emily in the Arctic forever. Jude vows to wrestle the evil out of Cosima, whatever the cost. Shayma is hired as Gert's home help. Gert will fight her every inch of the way. Constantinople, 1917. A young nurse falls in love with a wounded soldier. Mharaid begins a quest to scatter her husband's ashes and finds a new beginning. Extracts from the plays are performed as script-in-hand readings by professional actors. All writers are graduating from the MSc in Playwriting at the University of Edinburgh.Presented byUniversity of Edinburgh. Presented byPlaywrights' Studio Scotland. Author Melloney Flinn. Author Jill Franklin. Author Devon Jackson. Author Steven Morie. Author Jonathan O'Neill. Author Jane Sunderland. Author Thomas Stuchfield. | |
| 8 Aug 16 to 15 Aug 16 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh :: V605 listing details L0400331547 |
T0871817037Four readings from four brand new plays by four emerging playwrights from Scotland, England and the USA. In Prague, a mural of John Lennon symbolizes hope and freedom. Twenty-five years after The Velvet Revolution, four art students whitewash it, and daub the message Wall Is Over. Laura can freeze time, a very useful superpower, especially on this dangerous journey she's making, armed only with her Dad's old umbrella. Beelz, an oily faith healer, runs a traveling circus and church in 1920's America, but his business comes under threat when Elizabeth, a little girl, challenges him to make a miracle and find her parents. In the not-so-distant future, Ellie Dee, a digital avatar, fulfils every request, watches every moment, records every secret. Extracts from the plays are performed as script-in-hand readings by professional actors. All writers are graduating from the MSc in Playwriting at the University of Edinburgh.Presented byUniversity of Edinburgh. Presented byPlaywrights' Studio Scotland. | |
| 10 Aug 15 to 17 Aug 15 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh :: V605 listing details L01662579651 |
