More Than Conquerors

“There’s a Heaven that scares me more than any visions of fiery lakes and pitch-fork wielding Devils ever could.”

Niamh is a good person, who wishes she wasn’t. All through her youth, her faith in God has been the rock on which she has built her house, but, between caring for her ailing grandfather, parrying the ideological thrustings of her younger brother, Grant, and the dastardly schemes of TVs Anne Robinson, that rock has started to crumble.

This gentle drama explores the ways in which faith waxes and wanes, and the absence it can leave in our lives.

Credits

Rebecca McDiarmid (Niamh)
Anna McDonald (Co-Director)
Matt Page (Grant, Writer, Co-Director)

Content Disclosures:

Dementia, Mild Discrimination, Homophobia, Misogyny.

Emergence Festival 2026

Emergence is a festival of new work from the graduating artists of the MFA Acting/Directing Classical and Contemporary Text programme.

Emergence 2026 will include a range of provocative live performances and gripping short films presented across four days in January, returning to Glasgow’s iconic Centre for Contemporary Arts and surrounding venues.

These creative projects are the result of what can happen when artists are given a small budget and autonomy to respond to the provocation: what is the future of theatre and film?