On Wednesday July 29 the MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy cohort had the pleasure of hosting our annual postgraduate play reading event in the James Arnott Theatre. For this event, our playwrights and dramaturgs teamed up to select 15 minute excerpts from their work-in-progress scripts to be performed in a staged reading. The selections came from… Continue reading
The idea for a scratch night began last fall, as we began to create short plays and performances as part of our coursework. While it was wonderful to get together and read these pieces at smaller scratch nights, we yearned to really put these works on their feet, to put them in a space where… Continue reading
“Depending on how you use it, I guess, thought is our salvation and our damnation” – Man One A Bench at the Edge by American playwright Luigi Jannuzzi is an abstract, avant-garde two-hander that explores ideas surrounding life, death, suicide and the abyss. As two lost souls meet at the edge, they probe at… Continue reading
Sitting on the floor of the theatre space, before the five hour session begins in earnest, I have only a vague grasp on what a socially engaged arts practice is (less still about how to explore one). Catrin Evans, artistic director of A Moment’s Peace, subsequently guides this exploration generously; with lots of space for… Continue reading
This year’s TS, FTV & CCPR Postgraduate Symposium took place at the Gilmorehill Centre on Tuesday 12th & Wednesday 13th May 2015. The purpose of the annual interdisciplinary symposium is to provide an opportunity for PhD students to practice presenting their work, along with a great chance to network with those from other Subjects. This… Continue reading
HELENA: I first saw my first Robot at home. The town counsel bought them for! – I mean engaged them for work. DOMIN: Bought them, dear Miss Glory. Robots are bought and sold. HELENA: These were employed as street sweepers. I saw them sweeping. They were so strange and quiet. – Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (Rossums… Continue reading
The whole story started in April 2014 when the first 10 minutes of a play I had written got picked for a public play reading by the Progressive Playwright event at The Tron. I still remember on the day having to run after work to the station, then jumping on a train to Glasgow and… Continue reading
STaG (Student Theatre at Glasgow) is Glasgow’s largest student theatre society. Overall we put on approximately twenty two plays a year. Most of the plays we put on are between 20-50 minutes in length. However, once a term we put on a full length show which has our largest budget and this show is called… Continue reading
The annual Cramb Lecture invites esteemed music theorists and practitioners to the University of Glasgow. This year’s speaker, who was invited thanks to the support of the Goethe Institut in Glasgow, stood out due to his cross-disciplinary appeal. As an innovator and visionary in the fields of both music and contemporary theatre, Heiner Goebbels drew… Continue reading
Semester Two has seen our informal script workshop become a regular event. We meet most Fridays to share works-in-progress. Last month some of this work went on to be performed at The Tron Theatre’s Progressive Playwright event on 22 January. This week’s Scriptch night featured works-in-progress by Elspeth Sweatman (I Used to Believe in Forever) and… Continue reading
