Tomorrow at Noon

by Morna Young, Jenny Ayres, Emma Harding

The playwrights of these three funny, moving and provocative plays were chosen from 390 entrants to write a contemporary female response to Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30.Jenny Ayres’ Glimpse is inspired by Coward’s Still Life. It is the story of a woman whose history holds too much for her to leave behind. In a world that never stops, are we brave enough to wait? What might we glimpse if we miss the train?Emma Harding’s The Thing Itself reacts to Coward’s Shadow Play. When the sun fails to come up one morning, Vic and Simone must face the dark. But what emerges from the shadows? Truth or illusion?Morna Young’s Smite is inspired by Coward’s The Astonished Heart. It is a story of buried answers, blind hearts, and life after loss.­­­­

136 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 24, 2018

About the author

Morna Young is a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, journalist, actress and musician.

She was the recipient of the 2017 Dr. Gavin Wallace Fellowship (hosted by Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council) and the New Playwrights Award 2014 (Playwrights' Studio, Scotland).

Her professionally produced plays include The Buke of the Howlat (Findhorn Bay Arts), Lost at Sea (Perth Theatre, 2019) and her adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 2023). Her adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song was staged by Dundee Rep and the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2024.

Young is a scriptwriter for the BBC Scotland television soap opera River City.