Glasgow’s Morgan-Drew Glasgow is bringing her one-woman show to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time

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Morgan-Drew Glasgow who runs a production company in the Southside is taking her one-woman show to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time.   In her show Sealed, she explores themes of single motherhood, depression, anxiety and the pressures of being a woman.

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00:00 My name is Morgan Drew Glasgow. I'm a theatre maker originally from Edinburgh but I am setting

00:04 up a company in the south side of Glasgow. So my show is called Sealed. It runs from the 14th to

00:10 the 19th of August at 2pm every day at Greenside and Furnary Street. Although the 19th has sold

00:15 out which is really exciting. So it basically follows the story of a young mother living

00:21 in a seaside fisherman's village and she's on the verge of a breakdown, she's sick of life

00:29 and it kind of follows themes of postnatal depression and female experience, motherhood

00:36 and the kind of double standards in society upon men and women. It's a dark comedy so there is some

00:44 observational humour in there as well but it's just an explanation of this of women's life

00:48 interspersed with Selkie myth which is a Scottish and actually Nordic as well

00:56 myth about seal people who come to land and they shed their seal skins to live on the land.

01:01 So it's those two things kind of interspersed together. So I have come to this show through

01:10 my masters at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. I've just finished that

01:13 in the last month. I started research on it at the mid-2022. I have anxiety and depression

01:25 and I wanted to explore women's mental health in a way that was accessible and in a way light-hearted.

01:34 It is a dark comedy and the research and development that went into that was the sort

01:39 of double standards that I'm talking about. Why women who do bad things are looked at very

01:45 differently from men who do bad things interspersed with the idea of motherhood. I am not a mother but

01:51 I want to be a mother very soon and the idea of what it means to be a parent and what it means to

01:58 grow up in a single-parent household as well which I am from. So yeah lots of different kind of

02:04 aspects of my own life interspersed with myth and legend which I'm really interested in and also true

02:10 crime which is also a passion of mine. So all of those kind of mixed together where they kind of

02:14 research and development at the show. So I've learned that a one-woman show is very difficult

02:19 first of all. So it's just me on stage for 50 minutes so that's difficult in itself to keep

02:26 the audience engaged. But in terms of the thematic process I'm approaching 30 and I've got a lot of

02:32 friends who are becoming mothers so growing up with friends to then watch them kind of go into

02:37 this next phase of life it's market research for itself you know being around them and figuring

02:41 out how they're doing it. So I've kind of learned that you need to have your eyes open all the time

02:49 you're your market research and you're learning so much about your craft just by going about your

02:53 day-to-day life. And also I've learned that in terms of mental illness as well I think that

02:59 it's something that we're all talking about but we're not really listening. So I think that

03:03 actually telling these stories is really important because there will never be two stories the same.

03:10 So yeah I feel like living your life is actually just as important as working on your craft

03:17 because they kind of just go hand in hand.

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