Rockpools

Guilt tastes of instant ramen and tangerines.

Rockpools is a darkly comic, surreal, one-woman play which uses comedy, 12 porcelain dogs and a secret room to dive into a story of female identity, fertility, hoarding and love.

The play follows a young recently married woman who would describe her husband as ‘a mole I find worrisome but not so worrisome that I’d get it removed.’ She is faced with the daily task of caring for her grieving husband, whilst rattling round the giant house of his dead parents. We journey through past and present, watching as she rattles, begins to lose herself in the bedrooms and tries to understand how she got there in the first place.

Credits

Molly Windust – Writer / Performer

Content Disclosures:

Discussion of death, sex.

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?