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…
Q-POETICS
The POET & POETRY in places & spaces of WAITING – QUEUES.
All of it hinges on the arousal of curiosity. Q-poetics does not impose a performance, a poet or a poem on those lining up – Read more…
MAKING A MAP OF MY MISTAKES
Artist in Residence
An ongoing research project which began as an exploration in art & healthcare with patients and staff of the New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow.
The first phase of the project – 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…
CAFE POET
Ampersand Cafe, Australian Poetry
Writing in situ, leaving anonymous poetry between the books on the shelves in envelopes labelled, ‘FOR YOU’.
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…
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…
MAKING A MAP OF MY MISTAKES
An ongoing research project which began as an exploration in art & healthcare with patients and staff of the New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow.
The first phase of the project uses a – Read more…
TOONSPEAK YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE
Artistic Director
Skye created ‘Word of Mouth’ – the spoken word project for young people interested in performing their own writing. With a large cast of mor than 25 11-24yr olds, she wrote, – Read more…
A LITTLE LAUGH I LOST SOMEWHERE
A part-written, part-devised piece, the play explores aspects of the same grounded, jobless pilot who seeks to soothe an unquenchable thirst, a lost purpose, a broken heart, finding themselves stuck – Read more…
SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST
Live Literature – Poet / Playwright in Residence
I’ve worked on a range of different approaches to writing both poetry and playwrighting within schools with a huge age range. Key to these approaches is – 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…
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…
OUTSIDE ART
Street Art Project
Collaboration with artists Akshayee Shetty & Colin Begg. A partnership with The Tramway & Glasgow Life through Cashback for Communities
A year-long unique mix of art-forms that sought to re-imagine the urban environment – 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…