Jack Dickson: Off the Rails / Back on Track

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30 November 2024

To celebrate 50 years of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, in 2024 ten Fellowships Awards, were granted to innovative, inspiring, boundary-stretching projects that honoured, celebrated and promoted playwriting in Scotland. Supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

About Jack

The writing of Jack Dickson has seen performance throughout Scotland, at Play Pie and a Pint, and at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez Alaska. His Community play The Girls of Cartridge Hut Number 7 sold out for 12 performances in Ardeer, Stevenston, in 2022. Having penned 42 episodes of River City, back in the 2000s, Jack’s Flying with Swans will be performed this year by Aberfeldy Drama Club and his 1999 novel Crossing Jordan is scheduled to be republished towards the end of 2024 by ReQueered Tales, Los Angeles USA.

The Project

In 2019, “The Caley” gates closed, bringing to an end nearly 200 years of engineering innovation in Springburn. Five years on, playwright Jack Dickson is working with Springburn Winter Gardens Trust to celebrate the industrial and social heritage of this diverse area in the words of those who live there now. His project Off the Rails / Back on Track focused on creating a curated Spoken Landscape. The piece premiered at Glasgow Doors Open Festival 2024.

Jack’s project was being developed in partnership with Springburn Winter Gardens Trust , Glasgow.