Tandem Writing CollectiveTandem is a writing collective established and run by playwrights, Amy Hawes, Jennifer Adam and Mhairi Quinn. We travel between Edinburgh and Glasgow sharing our stories with local audiences while connecting grassroots theatre makers from both cities. Tandem Writing Collective has new writing at its heart and was established to perform short taster pieces of theatre that Amy, Jennifer and Mhairi have created after reading and critiquing each other's work. Our next event is at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh on Friday, 7th February, 8pm. You can buy tickets now here. |
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"The Tandem Collective delivers exciting new writing from fresh voices in a package which guarantees the audience a good night out. Go. You won't regret it. "
- Stephen Greenhorn (Sunshine on Leith, River City, Passing Places)
Tandem Writing Collective held its launch night, 'The Pilot' on June 3rd 2016 at the Wee Dram in Glasgow and has held another events since at the Wee Dram, The Cannonsgait Bar in Edinburgh, Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh, the Vic Bar of Glasgow’s Tron Theatre and most recently at Dundee Rep's new writing festival Rep Stripped.
Our events feature live music from excellent local musicians and we are very lucky to have worked with a number of incredibly talented Scottish actors and inspiring directors including Amy McKenzie, Jo Rush, Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir, Sarah-Rose Graber, Tom Moriarty, Fiona MacKinnon and Alice Langley.
At our first birthday event in June 2017 we celebrated with cake, live music and this time our plays included work donated by Lynda Radley, Rob Drummond and Clare Duffy.
Following a number of sold out performances at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in 2019, we are looking forward to bringing new writing to the Traverse Theatre for the first time on February 7th 2020. You can purchase tickets now below:
https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/tandem-writing-collective
Tandem will be back at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in June with some new shorts and one longer piece, performed script in hand, that has been developed through the Tandem, Writing Collective. Tickets for our June event can be purchased below:
https://www.tron.co.uk/event/tandem-writing-collctive/
A number of our plays have gone on to bigger things: Amy Hawes's play At Home with Bella was produced by Urban Fox Theatre Company as part of their Feast/Famine Project, Mhairi Quinn's play The Bridge Street Flats reached the final of the 2017 Progressive Playwright Award and Walk a Mile by Jennifer Adam was one of the winners of the Scotland Short Play Award in 2017.
Reviews:
http://www.tandemwritingcollective.co.uk/reviews
Below are some images from our previous Tandem Writing Collective events.
To keep up to date with future Tandem Writing Collective events, follow us on twitter @tandemwriters or visit our website www.tandemwritingcollective.co.uk
