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Martin McCormick

MARTIN MCCORMICK

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Martin McCormick is an award winning playwright and actor. His debut play 'Squash'(OranMor/Traverse) won Best New Play at last year's Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland.Other playwriting credits include 'The Day the Pope Emptied Croy' (Traverse/Oran Mor), co-writer on 'News Just In' (Random Accomplice) and 'Tristan Nightaway' (Play, Pie, Pint- Three Minute Thursday).Also his short play Potterrow (Cumbernauld Theatre) won last year's inaugural Short Play Prize.Martin is currently developing plays for Grid Iron and Utter Theatre developing two other untitled theatre projects for 2016.He graduated from RCS in 2007 and went on to work in theatre and TV in Scotland. His theatre credits include work with National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum, Dundee Rep, Tron, Vox Motus, macrobert, Visible Fictions, Grid Iron, Play Pie Pint, Arches, Magnetic North, Random Accomplice, Ramesh Meyyappan, Eden Court, Perth Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange and Paines Plough.

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         Day the Pope Emptied Croy, The         Flo         News Just In         Potterrow         Squash         Tights         Tristan Nightaway

Day the Pope Emptied Croy, The

Synopsis:
There aren't too many places in Scotland where you are the only Prod' in town. But Ranald is; and he's the only one in Croy. Literally. Everyone has gone to see the Pope. Except Barr, he's there too. Although, he doesn't know where he is, he doesn't know what he is; that's because of all the glue he's inhaled. The Day the Pope Emptied Croy shows us a glimpse of life in the early 1980's, what it's like being an outsider and why you should never try and knock the chAlice from the Chapel.

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1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     14 Aug 2014

Organisations:
Traverse Theatre Company

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Genre:
short script in hand reading

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Flo

Synopsis:
his is Helen and Mikes first. And its not easy. He works a lot. He has too. After all its why theyre here. Thousands of miles from home. So its mostly just Helen and the baby, alone in the compound, cooped up; after all, its not safe outside. But theres nothing to worry about, Mike says, the insurgents are on the other side of the country.

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Organisations:
A Play, a Pie and a Pint

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Genre:
short play

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News Just In

Synopsis:
A nightly roundup of all things Commonwealth Games, with a brand new story every night. Featuring a cast of six of Scotland's top comedy actors with a dynamic team of fantastic writers, anything can (and probably will) happen! Follow the TV-tastic, tantalizing soap opera whilst hearing all the up to date Games news and gossip from Tom Daley to Tom Foolery with views from Tom, Dick and Harry. A fast paced, raucous romp of a theatre show!

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part of Culture 2014 at the Arches. Written by Colin Bell, Danny Brown, Julie Brown, Mary Gapinski, Lesley Hart, Lewis Hetherington, Lisa Keddie, Martin McCormick, Johnny McKnight, Douglas Maxwell, Morna Pearson, Lynda Radley, Stef Smith and Anita Vettesse.

1st Produced:
Arches, Glasgow, UK >>>     22 Jul 2014

Organisations:
Random Accomplice

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Music:
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Genre:
piece

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Potterrow

Synopsis:
Fifty years ago. Edinburgh. the good old days. Great days. Safe days. Everyone left their doors unlocked. Bairns played on the street. Folk kent their local policeman. Respected them. But what happens when he turns up at your door holding your errant laundry?

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short play

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Squash

Synopsis:
Paul's been a bad boy - a bad bad pig of bike stealing boy. Ma seen him steal Bald's bike, after all Old Eagle Eyes doesnae miss a trick. What was Paul doing up here at the flats anyway? It's well past his bedtime and there's only room for one good boy in here. Bald knows that. Ma knows that. But what does Paul know?

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Organisations:
A Play A Pie & A Pint

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tights

Synopsis:
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One city, 50 writers, 50 plays, 25,000 words. In celebration of our 50th anniversary, we invited fifty emergent playwrights to work with us over the course of our birthday year. the worldwide search for the Traverse Fifty started last September with a challenge to write a 500-word Play for Edinburgh. Of the 630 applications, we selected the most urgent voices to form our Traverse Fifty. In January, these 50 plays were premiered all together, in one epic performance. This August, in the midst of our Festival Fever, we are re-staging these extraordinary plays, over two thrilling nights. This is your chance to see the future.

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Genre:
5 min play

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Tristan Nightaway

Synopsis:
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Organisations:
Play, Pie, Pint- Three Minute Thursday

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Music:
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Genre:
three min play

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