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Dateline: 3rd June, 2010
Tron Playwriting Winner Sea and Land and Sky by Abigail Docherty has won Glasgow's Tron Theatre's Open.Stage Playwriting Competition. Inspired by real handwritten diaries belonging to nurses of the Scottish Women's Hospital, it tells the tale of three young women and two soldiers serving on the Russian front during the Great War. Combining poetic language and bold symbolism it takes a highly modern and visionary approach to the subject matter. Docherty won the competition through a public vote on the Tron's website which asked theatergoers to choose the play they most wanted to see and which they thought had the most theatrical potential. The other shortlisted plays, Plume by J C Marshall and Zurich by Rob Drummond will each receive a public rehearsed reading at the Tron on 16th and 23rd October respectively. The Tron also has retained the rights to both these plays. Sea and Land and Sky will now enter further workshop development and will be staged as the flagship production on the Tron stage this autumn, previewing from 7th October and running until 23rd. Abigail Docherty was born in Irvine but raised in England and has a degree in English from Oxford University. Her previous plays include Room, recently seen at the Tron as part of its Mayfesto season, 1000 Paper Cranes, Molly and John and Goblin Market staged at the Southwark Playhouse. She was a Scriptwriting Fellow for the Scottish Arts Council from 2003 to 2004 and a visiting writer at the International School of Audio-Visual Creation in Paris in 2003. "I am really pleased and excited - this is such a wonderful opportunity," she said." The whole process has been amazing. Just getting to the final three and working hard on the script for the past three months with Alison Peebles has been a prize in itself." Andy Arnold, the Tron's Artistic Director said, "Sea and Land and Sky is a wonderfully ambitious and passionate play about three Scottish women who join the war. The writing is moving but also very witty and the audience is taken on an incredible journey as each story unfolds. I believe that in Abigail Docherty we have an exciting and original new voice for Scottish theatre."
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