Through the (Stage to P)ages
Writers have been submitting scenes to Stage to Page since April 2011. With over 800 submissions, more than 100 scenes have been selected and given workshops and readings since the event's inception.
The firm focus of this event has always been on offering an opportunity for writers to hear their work aloud, often for the first time, and to help develop their script further.
We must also not forget the key contributors to this great event: the actors, directors and the observers. In a fast and furious workshop environment, the actors selected in an open-casting process on the night - under the expert direction of the volunteer directors - bring to life the raw scripts of the playwrights. And all of the while this happens under the supportive and inquisitive eyes of the observers.
Over the years Stage to Page has also been lucky to have an enviable range of industry guests. As well as reading and selecting the scenes, these guests have encouragered and given words of wisdom to the writers and the onlooking audience. Hosts include Andy Arnold, Linda McLean, Peter Arnott, Nicola McCartney, George Aza-Selinger, Liz Carruthers, Andy Corelli, Stef Smith, Paddy Cunneen, Fiona Sturgeon Shea, Chris Dolan, Julie Ellen, Michael Emans, Morag Fullarton, Iain Heggie, Alison Peebles, Stuart Hepburn, Libby McArthur, Michael Hines, Mary McCluskey, Alice McGrath, and Ed Robson
Stage to Page continues to thrive due to the thousands of
observers that have moved between workshop spaces, watching the
writers, directors and actors shape the scenes over the course of
an hour. And, as always, the facilitators have been on-hand to keep
everyone right.
Below is a list of the Stage to Page writers and scenes by
year.
2017
Charlie Ward - Gordon Street
Neil Chue Hong - Dreams of Flying
Scott Robert - A Flood of Vinegar
Greg Andrew - The Stag in December
Laura Rimmer - The Invisible Woman
Cicely Gill - Something for the Crows
Daniella Di Mambro - The Cruel Mother
Jack
Dickson - Three Leaps of the Gazelle
Isla Robertson - Fair Play
Conor O'Loughlin - Exquisite
Corpse
Janet Nixon - Stuck
Sean Wilkie - Two for One
Alan Brady - Deceased
Helen Bang - Boundary Issues
Tom
Murray - Woodstock
Sylvia
Dow - Looking for the One
Sean Langtree - The Six
Max Chase - Starchild
Nora Smyth - Why Do You Always End Up Here?
Colin Burnett - Chasing It
Katy Nixon - Straight Outta Saughton
Michael Burnett - All In
Robert Dawson Scott - Threads
Catriona Duggan - The Camino Provides
Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir - Where
Exactly
Mhairi Quinn - Ashes to Ashes
Jill Franklin - Hindsight
Anna Rattray - How it Starts
Daisy Jo Lucas - Safe Space
Tom
Murray - Underground
2016
John Paul McBride - Jist the Wance
Laura Tansley - What's the Weather
Like Where You Are
Daisy Lucas - The Goblin King
Jo
Lennie - A Pound of Flesh
Angela Ness - In Cardboard Boxes
Helen Bang - The Gatekeeper
Claire McCracken - Undo New
Elissa Soave - Killer Bride
George Carson - Home Help
Kenny Boyle - A Victorian Parlour
Ian MacPherson - Two Men, One Lighthouse
Magi Gibson - Trust No One
Chris
Deans - The Cusp
Ros Borland - Best Served Cold
Frances Ferry-Mackenzie - Roxy and
Bianca
Robert Ramage - The Ambient Store
Fergus Mithchell - DNA
Michael John O'Neill - Headland
Emily Strong - Gene and Thomas are In Love
Sean Langtree - 840 Minutes
Carrie-Anne Wilde - Incubator
Catriona Duggan - Things Change
George Carson - Christmas Tears
Brenda Carson - The Ether Frolics of
Ballinascreen
Anne Baliney - Truth or Dare
Corinne Salisbury - Ether
Melanie Combe - Send in the Clowns
David Kilby - Unrequited in 1969
Morag Moffat - Dress Rehearsal
Lauren Aviah Clarke - The Fenian
2015
Emily Ashton - Morven
Anna Blainey - Waking
Tom Dickson - Meet the Troll
George Docherty - Butcher Meat
Anne
Hogg - She's Gone
Jo
Lennie - The Keepsake
Angela Ness - Blood's Thicker than Water
Nelly Snow - The Mass Murder
Laura Tansley - Great
White
Anna Blainey - Waking
Kenny Boyle - Solar
Jordan Mechano - All of Us Islands
Kate Ascott-Evans - The One
George Docherty - The Angel of Manse
Barbara Ellison - Trivia
Cicely Gill - Killing People is a Serious Business
Scott Cadenhead - Crocodile Skin Feet
Ailie Hunter - Night of the Prophecy
Jo
Lennie - Deep in the Heart of Me
Jason Sweeney - Ultravirus
Anne
Hogg - Sisters
Stephen Brackenridge - Plook
Fergus Mitchell - Timewatch
Heloise Thual - White Monochrome
Kingdom
Stewart Schiller - The Heat is On
2014
Anna Blainey - Giving Up the Ghost
Kenny Boyle - Rust With Me
Daniel
Cameron - I Saw Red; A Song for Billy
Katrina Conaglen - The Novelist and the
Thief
Louise Darroch - Stephen
Chris
Deans - And So Die
Tom Dickson - Throne Room
George Docherty - Butcher Meat
Cicely Gill - If You are Afraid of
Wolves
Francis Hagan - Ithaka
Val Herrick - The National Wealth Service
Anne
Hogg - And the River Runs Red
Lisa
Keddie - 27 and a Bit Hours
Sonya Kunawicz - Go On Then
Sean Langtree - Common Appointment
Jo
Lennie - Negatives
Ashby McGowan - Acting; Litter
Leona McPherson - The Elephant in the
Room
Tom Moriarty - Below
Scott Robert - A Life in a Living Room
Scott Robert - Never a Borrower or Lender
Be; Returning Rainy Day
Stewart Schiller - Having Control
Robert Dawson Scott - Mrs Sappho
Gerron Stewart - Hostile
Heloise Thual - Broken Teeth Queen and
the Paper Tigers
Alfie Wellcoat - Confined
Lesley
Wilson - Lips that Touch Liquor
2013
Jennifer Adam - Fragments; Breathing
Out
Ros Borland - Gold Dust
Mona Bozdog - Shortcuts
Michael Burnett - Capital Converse
Erin Carter - Craven Choke Puppies
Colin Clark - Woman on a Train
Alex Cox - Sealed; My Name is
Jesus...; Do
Jonathon Durie - My Cousin Angus
Magi Gibson - Our Boys
Kevin P
Gilday - Seen and Not Seen
Cicely Gill - You are the Driver and the
Guard
John Gilmore - Charlie Boden's Well
Val Herrick - The Club-Club
Anne
Hogg - High Jinx
Molly
Innes - Legacy
Belle
Jones - Belongings; Slain
John Paul McBride - Double Dunt
Leona McPherson - Mothering Heights
Ian McPherson - Surprise Funeral!
Angela Ness - Tick Tock
Mariana Palos - Porcelaine
Ewan Park - Archie Gemmill and the Inevitable
Omniverse
Michael Shand - Doors Close, They
Never Lock
Anna Stewart - Story of the Deer; Reduced
Heloise Thual - Don't Forget to Place
a Kiss on the Meat
2012
Jerry Brannigan - Decision Time
Michael Burnett & Joseph McCann - Penguin
Love; Lace up
Jack
Dickson - The Happy Place
Stewart
Ennis - Goats on the Roof
Cicely Gill - Looking for Jake Brown; Socks and
Biros; No Danger from the Cutlery
Sophie Good - Ham
Tory Gray - The Argument
Francis Hagan - A Little Winter Love
Val Herrick - Antiques
Geoff Holder - I Walked With a Zombie
Robyn
Hunt - Booner and Swan
David Kilby - Camembert
Carolyn McCole - Reaching for the Brakes
Martin McCormick - Squash
Ashby McGowan - The Birth of a Selchie
Phyllis McGowan & Neil Cairns - A Job with the
Council
John Patrick Martin - Floor Boy
Tom
Murray - Office Hours
Angela Ness & Glenn Davies - Solstice
Mhairi Quinn - The Bake Sale; For Better of For Ma Worse;
Till Death Do Us Part
Michael Richardson - The Last Will and Testament of
Alasdair James McKay
Michael
Shand - Depravity; Different
John Stuart - Dirty Water
Julie
Tsang - Troon
2011
Charlotte Anderson - Brain Worm
Mark Coleman - Nobillisima Femina
Jack
Dickson - Taking Care of Princess
Cath Fergusson - An End to Stupit Questions; Scene
Two
Hannah Fowles - Collared
Kel Glaister - In Camera
Michael Hart - Afterwards
Peter Lamb - Captive
Riley Madincea - The Missing Place
Mairead
Martin - Brittle End
Janine McEwan - Bang! Bang! Bang!
Linda Duncan McLaughlin -
Safe
Moira McPartlin - A Handful of Glaur
Fergus Mitchell - Four by Six, Six by
Four
Tom
Murray - Girls Can't Run; Till Death Us Do
Part
Mhairi Quinn - While the Kettle's Boiling
Eliza Shackleton - The Purity Ring
Thomas Simpson - Black Circle
Julie
Tsang - Play Dead
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