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Link to: TravCast: Traverse Theatre Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, in conversation with Jo Clifford
TravCast: Traverse Theatre Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, in conversation with Linda McLean
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Traverse Theatre are delighted to announce their continued partnership in a Creative Fellowship to be based within the University. IASH and the Traverse will commission a play on or inspired by any aspect of the agreed topic, in line with an aspect of the Institute's current interests. The stipend will be £10,000 and the recipient will have a private office and full Fellowship at IASH, and contribute to the Institute's events, including giving at least one work-in-progress seminar during the tenure of the Fellowship. The recipient must be Edinburgh-based for the duration of the residency, as their regular presence at IASH is expected. We propose 'Difficult Dialogues' as the topic for 2012. The tenure of the Fellowship will be between three and nine months, by agreement, with the intention that the playwright will submit a complete play to the Traverse at the end of 2012. During the period of the fellowship the playwright will have access to dramaturgical support from the Traverse's Literary Department and we hope would also play some part in the artistic life of the theatre. Interested applicants are invited to put in writing why they would like to take up this Fellowship and send their applications, along with a CV, to: Jennifer Williams, or by email to jennifer.williams@traverse.co.uk Deadline for applications: 9th February 2012 at 18:00 Further information can be found at: http://www.traverse.co.uk/contact/job-vacancies/
Previous holders of the Fellowship Jo Clifford was at IASH from April to September 2010. Writing about her plans for the Fellowship she said:
Jo gave a talk about the work she had been doing at IASH in a Work-in-Progress seminar at the Institute on Tuesday 1 February 2011 entitled: 'No quality in human nature is more remarkable than that propensity we have to sympathise with others': Dramatising David Hume. "The Tree of Knowledge", the play which Jo wrote during her Fellowship at IASH, was performed at the Traverse Theatre from 8-24 December 2011
During her Fellowship Linda took part in one of the "Dialogues with Hume" series of talks at IASH to celebrate the tercentenary of David Hume. The text of her conversation with Professor Susan Manning - "Gathering Uncertainties" - has been published as an IASH Occasional Paper and can be obtained by emailing iash@ed.ac.uk Linda was born in Glasgow where she studied at Strathclyde University and Jordanhill College of Education. She travelled as a teacher in Europe, America, Africa and Scandinavia before she wrote plays. Her plays include, for the Traverse - strangers, babies (Susan Smith Blackburn prize finalist), Shimmer (Herald Angel), Olga (from the original Finnish play by Laura Ruohonen) and One Good Beating (winner of Best One Act Play 2008). For Paines Plough: Riddance (Fringe First, Herald Angel); for 7:84 Cold Cuts and Doch an Doris; for Magnetic North - Word for Word. For RSAMD Reminded of Beauty. She adapted Like Water for Chocolate (for Theatres sans Frontieres, from the novel by Laura Esquivel). She has also written for radio. Linda is Chairwoman of the Playwrights' Studio Scotland and has worked for the British Council in Mexico City, Teluca, Oslo and Bogota. She regularly works in schools and colleges, encouraging new writers to find their own voices in their natural tongue. In 2009 she delivered the keynote speech to the Playwrights' Guild of Canada. She is currently under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland, Magnetic North and BBC Radio 3.
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