Theatre Alba

MARGARET McSEVENEY (Playwright - Thenew) Margaret McSeveney was co-writer, with Elizabeth Roberts, of the highly successful play WALLACE'S WOMEN produced by Theatre Alba (Director Charles Nowosielski) at the Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh, for the 1998 Edinburgh Festival Fringe . Also in 1998, DREAMS OF GLASS, a 40 - minute comedy/drama for solo female performer was produced at the Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow, and for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Gilded Balloon (Director: Francisca Bonita Beach). Her 10-minute black comedy monologue MARILYN, was a finalist in the Playwrights Union of Canada International Monologue Competition in 1998. In the year 2000 MARILYN was performed at the Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh (FoNTS); The International Women Playwrights Conference, Athens, Greece and the Mae West Fest, Seattle, USA "Thenew" is her first full length play. Margaret is a member of Broadside (Women Playwrights in Scotland), the International Centre for Women Playwrights, member of the Traverse Women Writers Group from 1995-99 and was a member of the Traverse Writers Group. Margaret has had several poems published in antholgies of Scottish poetry, including Chapman 105 (pub. November 2004). Her short story "Doakies and Boulders" was published in New Writing Scotland (1996)