SKYE LONERAGAN
Passionate about curiosity as a kind of currency, both in terms of value and exchange, Skye Loneragan is an award-winning writer/performer whose work spans theatre, poetry and live art.
Her first solo work Cracked, (directed by Zinnie Harris), won an Edinburgh Fringe First award, her seventh and most recent, Though This Be Madness was performed as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival in May 2018 and will be touring in Spring 2020.
For more information on Skye’s background and work, please click here.
For more details regarding Though This Be Madness, please click here.
For details regarding Skye’s work as an Artist in Residence, please click here.
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An online version of Though This Be Madness, which was to have toured Scotland as part of this year’s SMHAF will be appearing this May. A theatre show set in a lounge room, Though This Be Madness features a recovering mum who is attempting to tell you many tales of sisterhood struggles with mental health. The show is now undergoing an experimental re-framing – supported by SMHAF – to see how it can be shared with other lounge rooms, live online. Skye will be sharing quirky, questioning process-bites along the way via SMHAF’s website.
“It takes an artist of some budding genius to generate an idea this simple and this brilliant.”
– Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
PREVIOUS & ONGOING PROJECTS
GLASGOW LIFE
Artist-in-Residence, Ward 18, Phase 1
Focused on arousing curiosity in places and spaces of waiting and working with established groups in the area. Purpose: to create connections through creativity that could explore, ‘what would residents – Read more…
WIGTOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
Writer in Residence
‘How we can connect across distances and art-form divides?’
I journeyed with those coming to see the visual art festival, Spring Fling, sharing performance poetry on the bus tour and performing a – Read more…
ARTS IN THE CITY
Artist in Residence
Young people between foster care, in 18 care homes across Glasgow city. Working in collaboration with digital artist and founder of Sense Kaleidescopes Banglaore Akshayee Shetty, this was a rolling – Read more…
UNSEX ME HERE
A live art performance developed with the support of the Scottish Arts Council (now Creative Scotland).
What does the Raised Calf have to do with getting somewhere? Inspired by Shakespeare’s Lady – Read more…
MISH GORECKI GOES MISSING
Mish is 9-yrs old, ballet obsessed and the Little Rock in her family.
She’s just been made The Replacement on the Bolshoi Ballet excursion and she’s on route to Russia. All she needs – Read more…
CRACKED
How do you grieve someone who’s still alive?
Hope has lost her father…. trouble is, he’s still alive… and thinks he wrote the Bible. Everyday Roger Brimming swims out to sea – but not back – – Read more…
MY RIGHT THUMB
Solo performance.
With all the focus on avoiding ageing, illness and pain, where is all the youth, health and pleasure?
Quirky show about a hypochondriac whose right thumb won’t stop twitching.
Fascinated by a popular expectation – Read more…
THE LINE WE DRAW
A quirky, philosophical verse piece about the line we draw between art-forms and ages…
The piece addresses the child within, questioning what we deem appropriate for children, and what constitutes a ‘play’.
A misfit, – Read more…
THE UMBRELLA & THE BILLOW
A farcical piece set in a bar, where drinking makes us thirsty, about a struggle for mutual respect when belief systems clash.
What is an Umbrella to one is a – Read more…
THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS
How can we nurture our collective sanity? Desperate to Stay On the Ball, a recovering mum and sleep-deprived teat attempts to…finish a sentence. Unable to reach her sister Ophelia, who wrestles sometimes – Read more…
THE TURMERIC TRAIL
What can you do while Good Grief is in the room?
Berlin is a passionate python owner whose aunt, wrestling with a psychosis, comes to stay while she is on the brink of exams – Read more…
STAYING AWAKE FOR YOU
A very short play about a depression
HE and SHE are in consultation with each other.
He is the doctor. She is – patient.
He tries to help – Read more…
HIDDEN SPACES
Artist in Residence
How can we knit communities together through a re-consideration of green spaces between us?
A collaboration focused on how we can re-imagine the often dis-used green spaces between residents and buildings in Glasgow’s – Read more…
CAFE POET
Ampersand Cafe, Australian Poetry
Writing in situ, leaving anonymous poetry between the books on the shelves in envelopes labelled, ‘FOR YOU’.
VISIBLE FICTIONS THEATRE COMPANY
Playwright in Residence
Connecting with students at the then Greenock Academy (Gourock), to inspire writing for performance. Techniques included using drawing as a tool to explore classical playwrighting structures. Out of this residency – Read more…
PLUCKED OF PURPOSE – THE ADVENTURES OF P.B.
A perfromance / and installation: Plucked of Purpose questions the value of tying who we are to what we do, what we have and what we’ve been – Read more…