Smile and Say Thanks
August 2007
(formerly ‘To Assemble: Fold Tab A into Slot B’)
Bedlam Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
by Cat Easton, David G. Lees, Chris Hall and Harry Wilson
STaG sends the winning play from the first year of their new-writing contest to
the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The STaG in the Studio new-writing festival,
although in it’s infancy, was listed as one of The Skinny’s top five theatre events and in future years aims to establish and uphold links between potential theatre-makers at Glasgow University and Scottish theatre professionals. With esteemed judges Katherine
Mendelsohn of the Traverse Theatre’s literary department, venue manager of Bedlam Theatre Matt Weiteska and free-lance Scottish director Morna Burden on the selection committee.
The winner of this year’s festival is Smile and Say Thanks; a ‘delightful piece of magical realism’ that uses a collage of narrative perspectives to explore the gentle beauty found in the smallest of things. Follow five performers, as they inhabit a place where multiple lives inter-link and glimpses of stories are witnessed and shared but then lost forever. Experience random acts of kindness, learn about the wee man’s maddening secret and witness the subtle moments that make life worth living … ‘Smile and Say Thanks’ is for anyone that can still see wonder in the world.
