AND THE WINNER IS...
Congratulations to Abigail Docherty who has won the Open.Stage competition with her play Sea and Land and Sky. The play will be staged at the Tron from 7 - 23 October.
The two other finalists, J C Marshall and Rob Drummond will have rehearsed readings of their plays Plume and Zurich during the run.
Congratulations to all the finalists and thank you if you voted and made your selection.
Zurich by Rob Drummond
City of commerce. City of culture. City of death.
The scales are balanced, the camera charged and the Orangina chilled. Tomorrow is the most important day of John's life. Tomorrow he will come face to face with his destiny. Face to face with Him.
But tonight he spends with her. Elodie. She's not what he expected her to be. Not what he wanted. Nothing like his wife. But he has to hold his nerve. Has to keep it together. Because if he fails, thousands of souls will be lost. Including his own.
Zurich will be the setting for their Salvation.
Sea and Land and Sky by Abigail Docherty
A story based on the true adventures of the nurses in the Scottish Women’s Hospital at the Russian Front in 1916.
A field hospital, a stone’s throw from a battlefield.
Three nurses. Two soldiers. And a hint of madness in the air.
John loves Lily but Lily loves her missing husband. Ailsa stitches dead soldiers back together and then takes them on a picnic. Millicent dreams of escape. Thomas only cares about when he’ll get his next cup of tea.
A battle is lost. The camp is invaded. On the open road, everyone must fight to survive.
Sea and Land and Sky is boldly inventive, blackly funny, rude, raw and savage. And all about love.
Plume by J.C.Marshall
Who decides between justice and mercy? Who is entitled to vengeance?
Who left a bird perch in an Etap hotel room?
Maller, a bellboy, and her former primary teacher Mr Peters, imagine who the previous guest was. And what bird flew through that window.
The same window she stopped Mr Peters jumping from moments ago. Miner and canary? Wizard and phoenix? Magician and dove? They make a pact: whoever comes up with the best story wins. The prize of course being a matter of life or death.
A dark comedy about ethics and all the birds you can possibly imagine.
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