Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another - if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct.
Painful yet playful, poignant but uplifting, Stef Smith's Swallow takes a long, hard look at the extremes of everyday life. This powerful and poetic play premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Autorentext
Stef Smith studied Drama and Theatre Arts at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
She wrote the text for the critically acclaimed play RoadKill (Edinburgh Festival 2010, 2011). The show won a number of awards including a Fringe First, a Herald Angel and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. In 2012, RoadKill transferred to Theatre Royal Stratford East and subsequently won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and then toured to Paris, Chicago and New York.
Stef Smith's previous work for young people includes Grey Matter (Lemon Tree, Aberdeen).
Other credits include: And the Beat Goes On (Random Accomplice/Perth Horsecross Theatres & Scottish tour); CURED (Glasgay!); Smoke (and Mirrors) (Theatre Uncut); Woman of the Year (Òran Mór); The Silence of Bees, Falling/Flying (The Tron, Glasgow) and Tea and Symmetry (BBC Radio Drama Scotland).
Stef Smith has also been on attachment with the National Theatre of Scotland, an invited residency at the Banff Centre in Canada and under commission from the Royal Court in London. Her play Swallow received its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 2015.