Description
Scarfed for Life is a hard-hitting play about the Old Firm, based on the experiences of discrimination among the young people of Glasgow.
About the Author
Martin Travers has been on the Playwrights Studio (Scotland)'s mentoring scheme and has been on writing attachment with the National Theatre of Scotland. In 2010 he worked with prisoners to create the script for the large-scale Platform 2:10 project that culminated in four live performances in the chapel at HMP Barlinnie. Platform 2010 was part of Creative Scotland's groundbreaking Inspiring Change initiative. The script for Platform 2:10 won a gold Koestler Trust Award in 2012. In 2011, in partnership with Sense over Sectarianism, Scarfed for Life toured secondary schools with a cast of professional actors and members of the Citizens Theatre's Young Company. A new version of the play toured Scotland prisons in 2013. In 2012 Martin Travers's play Roman Bridge was the centrepiece of the National Theatre of Scotland's Reveal season.
Book Information
ISBN 9781472530707
Author Martin Travers
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 77g