This February, the New Works competition returns for its 13th 12 months, celebrating the perfect of pupil writing in Glasgow.
The New Works Festival goals to showcase the creativity and experimental spirit that runs all through Glasgow pupil theatre by presenting six performs throughout three nights. This 12 months’s performs discover a variety of genres, themes and tones, together with a folks horror, a courting present pastiche and a chess-based comedy/thriller.
The competition moreover presents audiences the prospect to get an advance have a look at the present STAG decides to take to Fringe this 12 months, which might be picked from the three 50 minute performs on the programme.
The New Works competition is produced by Student Theatre at Glasgow (STAG), the oldest and largest pupil theatre society within the metropolis. In addition to the New Works competition, STAG produces common showcases of recent writing, in addition to Main Stage productions and reveals on the Edinburgh Fringe. The purpose of the society is to make sure that all Glasgow-based college students have alternatives to develop abilities in all elements of theatre manufacturing.
Listings Information
Venue: Queen Margaret Union, 22 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QN
Dates: 25th – 27th February
Time: 7:30pm every night.
Running Time: Approx. 90 minutes
25th February
‘Checkmate’ by Sophie Gattis, George Rogers and Nathan Harris
It’s 2007. The entire time period has been constructing to this second; the top of 12 months chess match, as hosted by the ever-glamorous, somewhat-going-through-it PE trainer extraordinaire, Coach Penk. Year on 12 months, the competitors is gained by faculty bully, Hector Von Braun. But this 12 months, 13-year-old newcomer, Benny, has to beat nice odds to point out that, on the finish of the day, all it’s essential to be an actual winner is friendship. And possibly Pokémon.
‘Checkmate’ is a enjoyable, light-hearted play which explores concepts of companionship, isolation, and the exterior pressures confronted by younger folks. It’s essentially the most dynamic recreation of chess you’ll ever see.
‘Boutique’ by Will Gowling
It’s 1976 and Marjorie Clyde is getting married… once more. Arriving at Tattler’s Boutique for an appointment with the famed dressmaker herself, the uncertain bride-to-be is embraced right into a world of glamour and perfection, till the arrival of her feuding kids makes the expertise tense: the uptight and idealistic Evelyn, and her older brother Jude, a younger homosexual activist with little time for his household’s dramatics. When a darkish secret is revealed in regards to the forthcoming nuptials, the marriage is threatened, however a darker secret waits for the household beneath the halls of the boutique, one altogether deadlier and far, a lot stranger.
As Marjorie and her kids are seduced by the promise of a greater life collectively, the right gown might imply everlasting damnation.
26th February
‘He Bends the Tall Grass’ by Simon Kielty
After stories about an uncommon incident in a nursery, Emily, a social employee, should journey to a small village off the japanese coast of Scotland to make sure a toddler’s security. Once arriving to Mairi and Alistair Mallachd’s farmhouse, she meets their younger little one…solely it isn’t a human little one, however a wood determine that silently dictates their each transfer inside the home. Mairi claims she gave start to the static wood being and it has granted them the household they’ve all the time wished. Realising one thing sinister is afoot, Emily should struggle to guard her physique from the forces of an historical entity.
A contemporary spin on the idea of a folktale, ‘He Bends the Tall Grass’ examines motherhood, bodily autonomy and the lengths some will go to for ‘the perfect family’.
‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Noah McGarrity and Kathleen Tierney
Neil Letterman is lifeless. To ensure that of this, Auntie Bobo arranges a wake just for his closest confidants, who simply so occur to be his ‘fiancée’, his mistress, his ex-best buddy, his broke flatmate and his flatmate’s drug supplier. As tensions develop, an increasing number of questions come up about Neil’s dying. Is his assassin within the room? Does Coca-Cola play a component within the plot? And why does everybody appear satisfied they’re the killer?
Auntie Bobo is aware of. Auntie Bobo is aware of all. And she’s decided to unveil the plot in opposition to her nephew’s life – over cucumber sandwiches and a bottle of Moet champagne, clearly.
A darkish comedy a couple of homicide thriller gone fallacious, class quarrels and the wake to finish all wakes.
twenty seventh February
‘Jilted’ by Sophia Machi Watts
Have you ever puzzled what life might be like when your ‘best years’ are behind you? Well, Stacy, Carrie and Margaret have the reply for you: you’ll depart your groom on the altar!
When Stacy panics on her Wedding Day, leaving her excellent man jilted, a dialogue about Google Translate, Juicy Couture underwear and life extra typically ensues, as she and her two bridesmaids work out what it really means to be thirty, flirty and thriving.
‘Summer Fling’ by Grace Donaldson
A farmer. A hospitality employee. A make-up artist. A landlord/influencer. It can solely be this season’s forged of ‘Summer Fling’, Channel 6’s hottest courting present for the nation’s sexiest singles! Get prepared for a summer time of sand, brief shorts and semen, as younger folks with concerningly low IQs and concerningly excessive physique counts make fools of themselves on your viewing pleasure.
A loving parody, ‘Summer Fling’ explores the humorous, absurd and infrequently exploitative elements of courting reveals and the society we exist in.
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