April 2007
G12 Performance Studio

‘This year Student Theatre at Glasgow will be taking new-writing to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Four plays have been selected by STaG to premier in Glasgow at the STaG in the Studio new-writing festival. From these, one will be chosen by a panel of Theatre professionals and University academics to represent STaG in Edinburgh. STaG in the Studio’s new-writing festival promises to showcase the finest new-writing from Glasgow University students and offers a glimpse at talent which will shape the future of Scottish Theatre. The winning play is certain to reflect the very best that Student Theatre at Glasgow can offer: Theatre that is fresh and fearless, Possibly Controversial, Never Complacent, Always Compelling.’

Katherine Mendlesohn

Literary Manager, the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Liz Lochhead

Glasgow University Writer-in-Residence

Matt Weiteska

Venue Manager, Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh

‘To Assemble: Fold Tab A into Slot B’
Written by Cat Easton, Chris Hall, David G Lees & Harry Wilson
We are interested in examining the beauty found in personal experience. In
looking at using storytelling and found objects to explore the lives of real
and fictional people in a playful way. The play takes the form of a series of short stories; some real, some imagined, some believable, some utterly ridiculous. All of these stories are true but none of them have ever happened. We are led through the play by a group of performers who dip in and out of different people’s lives. ‘The Story of the Wee Man’, ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ and ‘Learning How to Learn’ all appear as themes or narratives.

“So there are four clowns in a box, right…”
Written by Stewart Archibald
We all exist in a box. All of us. It limits our life and restricts our actions.
It confines us. All our lives we must test the boundaries of our box, bounce
off the walls and search for an exit. We must strive to escape at all costs. We
must attempt to escape, not because of the glimmer of hope that we will one day
succeed, but because it is only by attempting to escape that we can realise the
true size of our individual box. Above all we must not resent our box, for it is
the division that prevents us from amalgamating with everyone else.

Redemption PLC
Written by Ciarán McHale
Human life on earth is to be destroyed two years from now. The reason? “A big
ball of alien waste-products or ‘Big Harvey’ as it’s being called.” What are
people doing about it? Trying to make as much cash as possible (or at least
that is the plan of Redemption PLC.) As the play begins the board of directors are basking in their plans to conquer America, but this is cruelly interrupted by a “poet” from the future. He is sent to deliver an ultimatum: One person from each country of the earth is to be saved; everyone in the UK must submit two minute video tapes to determine who here is worthy.

It swings, it squeaks
Written by Steven Redman
Words, phrases, concepts, whole logical arguments disappear. Screaming a tirade of advice into a vacuum of scepticism. All value lost in the gap between ears and brain. A gap at once insignificant and unbridgeable. People can’t see me pointing, for asking where to go. If they don’t follow the finger soon…