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
Jack MacGregor is a writer and director of contemporary historical drama and science fiction in theatre. Creating work for Scottish Youth Theatre, British Council, and Highland Youth Arts Hub, Jack has also been a shortlisted finalist for the St. Andrews Playwright Award (2022), produced new work for the COP26 climate summit (Amnesty, CCA Glasgow), and become an associate artist with Dogstar Theatre Company.
The Project
Faultlines: A retrospective of 40 years of touring theatre in the Highlands. Presented in a series of interviews and an audio-visual installation, the goal of Faultlines is to celebrate touring productions and new writing that has come from the north of Scotland since the 1980s. Created by Jack MacGregor, Faultlines preserves and investigates plays from the Highland’s past. It also re-evaluates their wider place in Scottish theatre history, communicating the craft and experience that comes from rural touring.
Jack’s project was developed in partnership with Eden Court Theatre, Inverness.
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SSP@50 Fellowship Awards
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Elspeth Turner: Teud A’ Briseadh / A Breaking String
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Fergus Morgan: A History of Scottish Drama In Six Plays
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Jack Dickson: Off the Rails / Back on Track
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Jack MacGregor: Faultlines
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Kathy McKean: Archive Project
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Martin Travers: Crown of Straw
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May Sumbwanyambe: A Play investigating Chartism, Women’s Rights, Abolitionism and the Free Church in 1840’s Glasgow
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Michael John O’Neill: Interregnum (Working Title)
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Morna Young: No Ladies
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Rachael McGill: Stromness Plays