Short Play Theatre: An Evening of New Writing

A monthly evening of new short plays by local writers. This month's plays are by Jack Dickson, Lisa Keddie, Tom Murray, and Mhairi Quinn.

Jack Dickson is a novelist and screenwriter, still finding his legs in theatre (that'll teach him to leave them under a seat). Jack's most recent play “Flying with Swans” played to packed venues in Aberdeen and Ayr and he's just finished the text for Asylon Theatre's “Fraxi, Queen of the Forest”, a dance piece for young people, which will premier at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

Lisa Keddie is a Glasgow based writer. Recent credits include News Just In (Random Accomplice) and Christmas Adventure (Visible Fictions). She has an MA in TV Fiction Writing from Caledonian University and is one of the Playwrights’ Studio mentored playwrights for 2015. She writes regularly for Village Pub Theatre in Edinburgh and is currently working on a new commission for Visible Fictions, as well as developing a new play with Cumbernauld Theatre.

Mhairi Quinn is a Glasgow born writer. She graduated in Drama and Theatre Arts from Queen Margaret University in 2012. Mhairi’s writing has been performed at the Traverse and the Pleasance in Edinburgh. She has also wrote for 3 Minute Thursday at Oran Mor. Mhairi’s play ‘Till death ‘ill do us’ was chosen for the Scottish Youth Theatres writing festival and her one woman piece ‘Under the big light’ was part of ‘Reclaim the F word’ at the Tron. She is currently under commission for Ludere Productions in London creating a new comedy series.

Tom Murray is a playwright living in the Scottish Borders. His play Sins of the Father was a winner of the Rowan Tree Playwriting Competition and toured by the Rowan Tree Theatre Company. Can You Hear Me? was one of the I Confess monologues performed at The Arches. In 2014, he wrote By Its Nature Uncertain part of the National Theatre of Scotland's 5 Minute Theatre 'Yes, No, Don't Know' event. He was recently Scottish Book Trust Reader in Residence to Scottish Borders Libraries. His website is www.tommurray.org.