Progressive Playwright @ Tron Theatre // 22 January 2015
Jeni Cumming and I had the opportunity to participate in the Progressive Playwright event at The Tron Theatre on January 22nd. To be selected, we each submitted 5-10 pages of scripts responding to the...
View Article‘Scriptch Nights’ in the Performance Studio // Friday 30 January 2015
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...
View Article‘Towards a Drama of Perception: On the Polyphony of Theatre’– Heiner Goebbels...
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,...
View ArticleA Midsummer Night’s Dream @ STaG // 23-25 March 2015
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....
View Article‘The Fog’ at Stereo // 7th and 8th April 2015
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...
View ArticleDevising a Robot Street Ceilidh
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...
View ArticleAnnual TS, FTV and CCPR Postgraduate Symposium
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...
View ArticleA Workshop on Exploring Socially Engaged Arts Practice with Catrin Evans
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)....
View Article“A Bench at the Edge” at Govanhill Baths
“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...
View ArticleScratch Night – 3 July 2015
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...
View ArticleAnnual Playreading Event
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...
View ArticleNew Dreams: Celebrating Shakespeare’s 400th Anniversary
Since November 2015 I’ve had the pleasure of facilitating a group of University of Glasgow Masters students in contributing to the upcoming Shakespeare 400 New Dreams celebration. The event brings our...
View ArticleAnnual TS, FTV and CCPR Postgraduate Symposium
On 4th and 5th May 2016, we held the annual Postgraduate Symposium for all PGR students in Theatre, Film and Television and Cultural Policy Research. This forum gave the PGR students from all three...
View ArticleLet Her Come In
As part of my PhD research on madness in contemporary Shakespearean adaptations, I ask what dramaturgical approaches might be used to portray mental illness in performance. To address this question, I...
View ArticleIFTR Conference 2016
Between 13 and 17 June 2016, approximately 900 participants from around the world assembled at Stockholm University for the International Federation for Theatre Research conference. Under the theme...
View ArticleSociety for Renaissance Studies 7th Biennial Conference
From 18 to 20 July 2016, the University of Glasgow played host to the Society for Renaissance Studies 7th Biennial Conference. The event gathered speakers and participants from a breadth of locations...
View ArticleRemembering Dada in Glasgow
On the 3rd November 2016, a group of academics and postgraduate students marked the centenary of Dada at the “Dada 1916-2016: A Century of Revolt” symposium at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in...
View ArticleHollow
As an outcome of my MLitt in Playwriting and Dramaturgy, I developed and later directed a play to assess the relationship between a powerful global community and a buffeted local community arising from...
View ArticleNowhere seeks nothing
PhD student in History of Art Erica O’Neill tells us about her involvement with the Take Me Somewhere festival. On Saturday 25th February, Andy Arnold and his troupe at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow...
View ArticleThe Art of Care-full Practice: a symposium
Master’s student Daniel Boden from our MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy programme tells us about his experience working at The Art of Care-full Practice symposium. Last month, I had the opportunity to...
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