A new interview with 2026 IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow, Jack MacGregor:
Part of this play came about from a frustration with sporting narratives. I wanted to get past the surface motivations of athletes we may be used to hearing (doing it for country, community, money) and instead make a character study of obsession, what it means to give your whole life to something like a niche sport, at the expense of everything else, and for it to still not be good enough. You’re not good enough, that you’ll never be good enough, and what that realisation does to someone...
...writing in the IASH office has been a total privilege. I’ve never had an office before and to come in each week and talk to incredible people makes me the luckiest writer in Scotland. It’s also changed my relationship with workflows - I used to wait around for ‘the moment’ and then write things all at once. Now I write with consistency every single day, no matter if it’s just 100 or 200 words because that is still progress. I think once it’s on the page it has a chance to live, keep your ideas in your head and they’ll die there.
Read the whole interview on the Traverse Theatre website.
You can get tickets for the first reading of Jack's new play, Foil, on Monday 24 August at 16:00-17:30 in Traverse 2: https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/foil-reading