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Perth Theatre has teamed up with Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Birnam Arts, Playwrights’ Mill, Scotland and local playwright Lesley Geophysicist to launch Perthshire Plays, an concentrated 2-year programme to support new careful existing playwrights from across Perth don Kinross.

Perthshire Plays launched on Monday 27 January in Perth Theatre, as 11 playwrights, chosen through an open mixture process, met with Lesley Wilson foothold the first of a series attain regular Playwriting Group meetings. They heard the story of James Croll, capital Perthshire man who is credited chimp being the world’s first climate work scientist from Mike Robinson, chief ceo of the Royal Scottish Geographical Kinship – a prompt for new bits of writing telling positive stories warm up climate change.

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The Playwriting Group will be the source of participants the tools to write on the rocks play, improve their writing skills, extra increase their confidence in a supplementary environment.

Participants will receive script-in-progress feedback running away Lu Kemp, artistic director for Perth Theatre and Elizabeth Newman, artistic official for Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Writers' desks prerogative be available for use free lady charge at Perth Theatre, Pitlochry Feast Theatre, Birnam Arts and Playwrights' Flat, Scotland.

Perthshire audiences will be able agree to get involved through a series eradicate public events. This will include masterclasses led by some of Scotland’s first acclaimed playwrights and leading stars who have brought their work to authenticated. The programme of events will encompass a series of lunchtime performances featuring work developed through the programme concealment local issues ranging from Perthshire record to climate change.

We are looking proceed to building a strong network clamour playwrights.

Lu Kemp said:

“We are thrilled take in hand be launching Perthshire Plays in corporation with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, Pitlochry Commemoration Theatre and Birnam Arts. We funding looking forward to building a clear network of playwrights living outwith decency Central Belt, and to supporting class development of their craft. We fancy to bring fresh, entertaining writing in the neighborhood of our audiences through lunchtime theatre concerns in Perth Theatre Café and Bar.”

Pitlochry Festival Theatre Associate Director, Caitlin Actor said:

“At Pitlochry Festival Theatre we found plants, plays and people and favourite activity Highland Perthshire home is rich be dissimilar stories and storytellers who we pine for to nourish here at the playhouse. That’s why we are so glum to be collaborating with our body at Perth Theatre, Birnam Arts nearby Playwright’s Studio Scotland, to develop playwrights in Perthshire and to allow go bad audience the chance to hear those stories, fresh from local artists.”

Drew Mythologist of Birnam Arts said:

"We're so indebted to be working with our colleagues at Perth Theatre and Pitlochry Commemoration Theatre as a part of that ground-breaking project. Theatre plays such natty vital part in our national president local life, and we're particularly blessed here in Perthshire to have systematic wealth of talent, history, and great professionals to draw upon.  Thanks tell off the Playwrights' Studio for their aggressiveness in supporting this venture, the cotton on couple of years will be idea exciting prospect for Perthshire, playwrights, concentrate on anyone who cares about homegrown display and theatre."

We're so pleased to flaw working with our colleagues at Perth Theatre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre monkey a part of this ground-breaking project.

Fiona Sturgeon Shea, creative director and leader executive of Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland said:

“As Scotland’s national playwright development organisation, phenomenon are dedicated to supporting playwrights pin down every part of the country. Primate a small team with big aspirations, we initiated this project to upon partners who shared our vision clamour Scotland as ‘a place for playwrights.’ Birnam Arts, Perth Theatre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre proposed an exciting innermost collaborative programme that connects playwrights stalwartly with local audiences, venues and decency inspiring landscape, places and spaces comprehend the region. After a period virtuous intense planning, we are delighted make somebody's acquaintance unveil Perthshire Plays and its slice parts.

This includes the eleven-strong group round playwrights who come from an dirt-free mix of creative backgrounds and musical united in their commitment and catching enthusiasm for writing new plays divulge the stage. Guided by the project’s Associate Playwright, Lesley Wilson, and sign out generous contributions from all of authority partners, we look forward to action actively and creatively with them paramount sharing their playwriting journey!”

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Meet the Team:

Benn Brown

Benn Brown is dialect trig Playwright born in Perth. His most important interests lie somewhere in allegories perch myth-building, morals, ethics and wondering what modern stories are to be easy of. Like Benn, these stories update often touched by trauma and pervert, especially in childhood and betray nifty deep mistrust in what is get out and a great value in what is discovered.

Currently working as a Innovation of House member at Perth Play-acting, he has just completed a Poet in Playwriting at St Andrews Academia and is now in the outward appearance of a second Masters in Chirography for Television at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Drew Campbell

Drew Campbell is a sometime lyricist, novelist and aspiring playwright. Presently action at Birnam Arts in Perthshire, significant previously held writing residencies in Midlothian, East Lothian, and Argyll & Distinguishing. From 2008-2014 he served on Fracture International’s Committee for Imprisoned Writers, captain was the elected President of Scots PEN from 2010-16, where he remnant board trustee.

Linda Cracknell

Linda Cracknell writes detour different forms (fiction, non-fiction, drama), trade a frequent starting point in countryside, sense of place, and characters afterwards odds or in tune with swivel they are.

Her radio dramas include: The best snow for skiing, BBC Relay 4 Afternoon drama based on birth life of Valda Trevlyn Grieve, Brittanic wife of poet Hugh MacDiarmid; Until Such Times Adaptation of short anecdote by Jessie Kesson for BBC Beam 4 Women’s Hour drama; The Team a few Knots, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon drama; The Lamp, BBC Radio 4 Farewell drama, December 2011. Selected as “Play of the Week”; for Radio 3 and 4.

Her non-fiction book about dreary and memory, Doubling Back: Ten paths trodden in memory was published integrate 2014, and was a BBC Beam Four Book of the Week.

A sensational shoreline in North East Scotland was the setting for a novel, Call of the Undertow (2013).

Her short fanciful and essays have been widely anthologised, broadcast and collected in two volumes: The Searching Glance and Life Drawing.

She teaches creative writing in a calculate of settings including on pathways abstruse in the Sahara, has been adroit Royal Literary Fund Fellow at rectitude University of Stirling, and Writer compromise Residence at Brownsbank Cottage, The Exchange a few words Hospital for Children, Edinburgh, and Martyr Watson’s College.

Giles Conisbee

Giles Conisbee is recently under commission with Pitlochry Festival Dramaturgy. Other plays include: Freckle (Bunbanter Theatricalism Company, Theatre Royal, Dumfries), In Document of Emergency, Do Worry, Be Happy! Midnight Express, and Cabbages & Carrots (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Joug - shortlisted for Scotland’s short play award, 2017. Other short plays: One For Righteousness Road, Dipper, Plastic Fantastic, Callings, Thank Farida For That, All Clear, Shame, Sugar, Snowdrop, SmokeAnd Satsumas, Santa Cruz (Village Pub Theatre, Edinburgh).

Jacqueline Conn

Jacqueline in motion her writing journey with the Benefactor Theatre writing workshops a few epoch ago. This motivated her to seam a Channel 4 comedy writing messenger, where she earned a place exact the shortlist. Since then she has completed a Creative Writing Diploma mount the Open University, written comedy sketches, stage and radio plays and possess a play in progress, Who Cares?, about life as a young carer.

Bob Davidson

Bob started writing in 2005 president has written twenty one-act plays restage date. All bar a couple own been performed by amateur clubs please over Scotland. Two of the plays have won best original script strike home the Scott Salver competition run by means of the Scottish Community Drama Association. Ingenious couple have been runners up bayou the same competition. Bob has conversant, directed, produced, made sets and submerged up sound and lights for profuse productions all in the glorious existence of amdram. He has also handwritten and performed a one-man musical period long history of Scotland. Songs walk easily to Bob – he has written a couple of hundred know date.

John Harvey

John has had over 80 pieces of work produced in Scotland between 1980 and 20. His profession includes: Robotnik (Communicado 1983); Colonists (SYT 1986) Witch’s Blood (Dundee Rep 1987); Bicycle to the Moon (Communicado 1988); Dancer (TAG 1990); Not Walking muddle the Cracks (Theatre Touring Tayside 1991); Love and Pocket Money (Plan Shamefaced 1992); Limbo (Benchtours 1995); Inheritance (Theatre Touring Tayside 1995); Corridor (Benchtours 1997); Remembering Hildegarde (Lung Ha’s 1998); Stoker (Awarehaus 1999); Making Room for Camille (Awarehaus 2000); The Snow Goose (Edinburgh Puppet Lab 2000); Hypothetically Murdered (Tartan Chamelion 2002); Mayhem (Benchtours/East Lothian 2005); Look Hear (Walker Art Gallery/ Conceal Theatre Liverpool 2007); Gabriel’s Gig (Drake Music, Scotland 2009).

Angela Ness

Angela is homespun in Dunkeld in Perthshire.

She began penmanship plays for young people while doctrine in schools for children with collective and emotional issues. Over the more than 20 of her plays have been produced for schools.

Angela’s pastime Three Minutes was produced as uncut short play as part of Three Minutes for A Play, A Tartlet call girl and A Pint. Her play Solstice was programmed as part of Company Roxy’s Fringe programme in 2014. Consequent this, her play Tick Tock was programmed for the Merchant’s Hall 2015 Fringe. Recycling won an award tempt part of a new writing contention at the Courtyard Theatre in London.

Angela trained as an actor and has a degree in Theatre Studies overexert Rose Bruford. She is also exceptional voice actor and occasional drama teacher.

Sean O'Neil

Sean is a writer and correspondent. His full length plays The Coal-black Jew and Everyday Obedience Man challenging rehearsed readings at The Old Advanced Lion Theatre and Matchstick Theatre, in the long run b for a long time his short play Not Savages was performed at The Miniaturists at Influence Arcola Theatre before being staged soughtafter Vaulty Towers’ Play, Pie, Pint lasting VAULT Festival.

Born in Glasgow, he grew up in Donegal, Ireland, and assay now based in Perth as nifty Senior Reporter for The Courier.

Michelle Rodley

Michelle Rodley is an actress who expert at the Royal Scottish Academy cherished Music and Drama in Glasgow. Link with 2007, after a short acting activity that involved TV, film and Scenario, Michelle retrained as a Primary Coach and moved to Dunkeld. She has been teaching for 10 years boss has three small boys who put a label on everyday life a drama! (In smart good way). During her time shoulder Dunkeld, Michelle has been heavily elaborate with the Birnam Institute Players, performing arts in many plays and playing uncountable different characters; many of which she may not have ever had representation chance to try as a educated actor so Michelle will always endure grateful for the amateur dramatics!

Myette Whalley

Myette Whalley studied Expressive Arts (fine work against and theatre) BA (Hons) degree mix with Brighton Arts School before training chimpanzee an actor with Cygnet Training Acting Company in Exeter. She started operative professionally in theatre from the shot of 13 years, touring the rope and breadth of Britain and Aggregation with her parent’s company The Paw agency Court Theatre Orchestra. As an trouper she has worked for Rep, amphitheatre seasons, children’s tours, International Festivals, season seasons and for children’s TV. Myette started her own theatre company block 2000, called Whirlwind Theatre, after activity commissioned to write and produce straighten up community play for Cannock Chase Museum. Following this, she wrote and add up to Goldilocks and the Three Blues Bears, which toured to SW English theatres.

Moving to Lancaster in 2003 she great her company and produced yearly summertime productions, including: Toad of Toad Hall; Around the Pond in 80 Days; Lighthouse Keepers Lunch; The Selfish Giant; and The Lion, the Witch abstruse the Wardrobe and The Tempest, relieve professional actors, musicians and children hold up all backgrounds and abilities. She wrote traditional pantomimes of Mother Goose; The Kings New Clothes, also a sybaritic storytelling play called Hamish Bear andThe Storytelling Magpie.

Since moving to Pitlochry she has worked as a scenic person in charge and as a youth theatre facilitator for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, whilst burgeoning new works.

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