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 Rachael
Rachael McGill is a playwright for stage and BBC Radio 4, a prose writer and a literary translator from French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Her plays have been performed at theatres across the UK. Her play The Lemon Princess is published by Oberon. Rachael’s short fiction has been published in anthologies and online. Her first novel, Fair Trade Heroin, longlisted for the Linen Press First Chapter Award, was published by Dedalus Books in 2022.
The Project
Stromness Plays by Rachael McGill was a competition for people with an Orkney connection to write a short play inspired by a Stromness Debating Society theme. Writing workshops and dramaturgy were provided. Winning plays were presented by Stromness Drama Club in a celebration of Orkney theatre and debate.
Rachael’s project was developed in partnership with Stromness Drama Club, Orkney.
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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