This Residency provides the opportunity for a creative practitioner to undertake a discrete, defined project engaging with material held within the Scottish Theatre Archive.
The Scottish Theatre Archive was established at the University in 1981 with funding from the Scottish Arts Council. Today it consists of over 100 collections created by corporate bodies like the National Theatre of Scotland and Scottish Ballet, as well as individuals including founder of the Citizens Theatre, James Bridie (1888-1951).
The Residency provides the opportunity for a creative practitioner to undertake a discrete, defined project engaging with material held within the Scottish Theatre Archive. This may be research undertaken towards a new project, work to develop an existing project, the development of a paper, presentation, proposal or script for further funding etc. The Residency does not seek to place limits on types of outcomes.
Key themes/areas of interest are:
- hidden/marginalised/untold histories
- new stories/new perspectives
- innovations & surprises
- pasts, presents, futures (what can we learn from Scottish theatre history that might help us now?)
- performance and the archive (novel creative methods of engaging with/activating the archive)
Deadline for applications is 5pm, 21 February 2025. Full details from https://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/theatre/research/practitionerresidency2025/
The Residency is open to self-employed artist practitioners to undertake work not funded in full by any other organisation. The selected Resident will receive a fee of £2000. The Residency will cover a period of up to four weeks maximum, which can be taken flexibly between March – June 2025.
For further information, please contact Deirdre.Heddon@glasgow.ac.uk (Deirdre Heddon) or visit https://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/theatre/research/practitionerresidency2025/.