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First performed as a play in 2015 and now in development with production company Kudos and the BBC as a TV drama, Scorch explores the contested legal issue of (so-called) gender fraud through...
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Stacey Gregg on gender, identity and the theatre’s ‘gutting lack of women’. The Belfast playwright’s latest work, Scorch, has plenty to say about the complex nature of modern gender identity, and...
Sep 27, 2016 · Stacey Gregg talks about tackling ‘gender fraud’ with the award-winning Scorch and interweaving tales of IVF and abortion in her new work, Choice
stacey gregg, irish playwright, on gender, identity and the theatre’s ‘gutting lack of women’ ( Peter Crawley’s interview appeared in the Irish Times, 11/14. A few years ago, at an early stage of her career, the Belfast writer Stacey Gregg took part in the Writers’ Academy, a rigorous course designed to serve as both boot camp and ...
Scorch asks some fascinating and important questions: why do innocent people plead guilty? Is gender dysphoria simply recognised as fraud in the eyes of the law? Scorch attempts to tackle some profound subject matter, and to capture the struggles of trans youth is not an easy task
Nov 14, 2015 · For most of the participants on the programme it was revelatory. For Gregg, it was a dead end: “It was essentially a sausage machine. I didn’t write for about a year after that.” In the years since, Gregg has been making up for lost time.
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Aug 4, 2016 · A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, Scorch was inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'. For those who feel they're not living the right life, online is a place to be yourself.
