Louise Welsh's Blog, page 5
June 17, 2010
Memory Cells
Memory Cells, originally commissioned by Glasgay! will be coming to the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe starring National Theatre company member Emily Taaffe
A deadly battle of wills plays out in this chilling tale of abduction, sexuality, power, and obsession. Barry has convinced himself that holding Cora as his victim is a legitimate act, an expression of love, a necessary protection. But is Cora as weak as she seems, or does she have her own a...
June 14, 2010
European Crime Fiction Star Award
Panic Patterns
Panic Patterns a new play by Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan, commissioned by Glasgay!Directed by Alison PeeblesThe Citizens Theatre, Circle Studio, 19 Oct 2010 - 30 Oct 2010£12.50 (concessions available)
Preview (19th Oct) £5, Book Here
Ornithologists Jacq and Fay are on a remote island in the far north of Scotland investigating sudden changes in bird migration patterns. Fay believes these changes signify forthcoming disaster. Jacq thinks the isolation is making her younger lover paranoid. But ...
June 7, 2010
Hay-on-Wye Festival
At the Hay-on-Wye festival
It's odd who you see at the Hay Festival. Strangely Nick Clegg didn't ask for my advice, but if he had I would have suggested he keep away from Tories.
June 3, 2010
Operaaaaah!
Emma Carrington and Mary O'Sullivan in Remembrance Day
Financial Times opera critic Andrew Clark discusses Scottish Opera's 5:15 series in an insightful feature that explores this year's crop of short operas from writer librettist teams including Lyell Cresswell and Ron Butlin and Zoe Strachan and Nick Fells. He also mentions Louise Welsh and Stuart MacRae's 15 minute opera Remembrance Day (2009) .
April 22, 2010
I throw my prayers into the sky (when fear and faith collide)
Bamberger Punkt 14
The multidisciplinary project, 'I throw my prayers into the sky (when fear and faith collide)' which featured work from Louise, writer Zoë Strachan, jeweller Laura Murray and visual artist David Sherry and which appeared as an exhibition at the Villa Concordia , Bamberg, Germany (18th November – 18th December 2008) is now available from Villa Concordia Press in the form of a bilingual book, 'Bamberger Punkt 14: I Throw My Prayers into the Sky'
Villa Concordia
March 28, 2010
The Gorbals Vampire
In 1954 around a hundred children descended on Glasgow's Southern Necropolis armed with kitchen knives and home-made stakes. They told the police officer who was called to the scene that they were searching for a vampire with metal teeth who had killed two wee boys. The vampire hunters were to become part of an anti horror comic-book campaign in Britain and the US and were cited in the drafting of censorship legislation which remain on the statute books today. Louise has teamed up with...
March 10, 2010
The Bookworm Beijing Literary Festival
Louise will be taking part in the Beijing Bookworm Literary Festival between the 11th and 27th March, so the news page will go quiet for a couple of weeks.
