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Morna Young

MORNA YOUNG

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Playwright Morna Young is a writer, actress and musician. She won the Playwrights Studio, Scotlands New Playwrights Award 2014. Other credits include Netting (A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Ňran Mór, Glasgow, and The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen), Never Land (Eden Court Theatre, Inverness) and B-roads (co-written and co-performed with David Rankine for Play Pieces). She has performed extracts of her work at the Scottish Parliament, the European Authors Festival in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, and for National Poetry Month in France. A multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, she has performed with Kevin McKidds band The Speyside Sessions, The Fishwives including television appearances on The One Show and BBC Breakfast, and was Composer and Musical Director for several theatre productions. As an actress, she has worked with The National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, The Beacon, Greenock, and she is an Associate Artist of Out of the Darkness (ODTC). Residencies include Cove Park and Rough Mix, Scotland and CAMAC, France. She also has work in development with Magnetic North, Stellar Quines, Tidy Carnage and ODTC. Morna primarily writes in her native dialect Doric.

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         B-Roads         Lost At Sea         Netting         Never Land

B-Roads

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written by Morna Young and David Rankine

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Inverness Based Play Pieces Lunchtime Theatre.    -

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Lost At Sea

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An epic tale spanning forty years of the fishing industry, told through the eyes of one family and the surrounding community. Fishing is still the most dangerous job in the UK  there is fifty times more risk of being killed than in any other profession. Lost At Sea is the story of two brothers experiencing the extremes of the industry  one is lost to the ocean, the other makes his fortune  and features the verbatim voices of fishermen and their families with an added element of ocean mythology. Inspired by the loss of Morna Youngs own father to the ocean, it is a personal tribute to the fishing communities of the North East of Scotland.

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Now in its seventh consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - the coalface of British Theatre - presents its annual explosion of new writing - Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, running on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday and Thursday matinees between 25 October-12 November 2015. This year's festival features an eclectic and idiosyncratic selection of twelve staged readings of twelve new works by a dozen UK and international playwrights, both established and new, all discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre. Concentrated solely on full length works for the stage, this year's Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights includes playwrights from England, Scotland, Wales, the United States and New Zealand. As always we strive to be as diverse as possible, and this year's festival once again features 50% female playwrights, together with work from African-American, East Asian, British-Lebanese, British-Israeli and Maori playwrights.

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Netting

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A father and his two sons are lost at sea. Keep busy, eh? Hope we'll get a body, mebbe. The widden spoon. A knock on the door wi a wooden spoon. Three women adapt to their lives as widows. Kitty can't stop knitting. Alison needs looking after. Sylvia wants to forget. Then, one day, a knock on the door. A body has been found. One body, three women. Who does it belong to? Set in the north of Scotland, "Netting" is a story of finding closure after unimaginable loss.

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Short play

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Never Land

Synopsis:
A teenager lies in a coma after a near fatal car accident. Her broken body is hooked up to machines to keep her alive. She wakes in a cold, dark place - in the shadowy realm between life and death, a surreal land free from the usual constraints of time and space. . .

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Never Land is the outcome of an Eden Court project dedicated to developing the production of theatre in the Highlands. This production specifically sought out actors from the Highlands who have graduated in the past five years and has given them the opportunity to work alongside established artists such as Jimmy Yuill and Benny Young. In addition it has created a wonderful opportunity for a new designer to develop his talents as well as Highland writers such as Morna Young to expose new work to wider audiences.

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Websters Theatre, Glasgow    21 Oct 2014

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Eden Court

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