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 Morna
Morna Young is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Moray. She was named ‘Scots Writer of the Year’ at the Scots Language Awards 2019. Morna won the Peggy Ramsay/Film 4 Playwriting Bursary to work in 2024. Morna’s debut play Lost at Sea won two Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotlands. She also wrote the CATS-winning The Stamping Ground: A Runrig musical (Eden Court/Raw Material)and a new adaptation of Sunset Song (Dundee Rep/Lyceum). Full info at: www.mornayoung.com
The Project
In 1973, a mass of women stormed The Grill bar in Aberdeen, protesting its ‘men only’ policy and ‘No Ladies’ sign on the door. Hosting live research events at The Grill bar and Aberdeen Arts Centre, this project explored the local history of women’s protest in order to develop a new work for the Northeast.
Morna’s project was developed in partnership with Aberdeen Arts Centre, Aberdeen.
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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