MEDUSA’S SISTERS - BY POORBOY THEATRE & SQUAD WALK FILM

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A script-in-hand performance of a new dark comedy heist movie written for the stage by theatre and film award winning writer/director Sandy Thomson of Poorboy Theatre . The most unlikely crew of women the pubs of the Grassmarket have ever seen help a desperate woman stage a daring escape from domestic violence.

Performance Info

"You can ask the women in the Ladies Toilets for anything from a tampon to a murder and they'll do their best for you”

								Gail Wylie, Glasgow Poet

Imagine the women of Thelma and Louise planned a caper worthy of The Sting against a backdrop of famous Edinburgh landmarks - and the big Tesco.

In the Ladies bathroom of a fancy Edinburgh restaurant a distressed young woman bursts into tears. The women who gather round to find out if Bruna’s ok don’t know her or each other but, as her story unfolds, they agree to help. How will a pensioner, a young student and the mother of a new baby stage a con so that Bruna can disappear, leaving no trace for her furious husband to follow? Committing to their plan pushes all the women beyond their comfort zones and the law but hell hath no fury like a woman scunnered or the resourcefulness of the Central Edinburgh Limited Mobility Elders Zumba Club.

This is a lively, informal, one off, script-in-hand performance of a new dark comedy screenplay and theatre work by award winning writer/director Sandy Thomson inspired by her work with Women’s Aid.

Artist Info
Sandy Thomson founded her theatre company Poorboy in the early 2000s and has been making award winning original stories and performances in unusual spaces ever since. She’s made work with the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Conservatoire, Dundee Rep and many other national and international partners. She mentored other playwrights through the Playwrights Studio Scotland’s Mentoring Programme. In recent years she was selected for The New York Women In Film and Television’s Writers Lab and moved into writing and directing film. She’s a member of the Independent Writers Caucus USA and a Nashville Film Festival award winner. Her mentors, as she develops her first feature film, are producer Riva Marker (Beasts of No Nation) and screenwriter Robin Swicord (Practical Magic). Medusa’s Sisters is Sandy’s third screenplay.
For more info please visit www.squadwalkfilms.com and www.poorboy.co.uk