The Student Theatre at Glasgow (STaG) is the University of Glasgow's

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

 theatre society. STaG puts on a variety of performances, both mainstage and studio. It also hosts an annual New Writing Festival and STaG Nights, the biggest student theatre festival in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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Mainstage Productions

Each year STaG produces three full scale shows in the Gilmorehill G12 building, home to the University of Glasgow's Theatre, Film and Television Studies department. This is a chance for members to be involved in a show in a professional space and also provides the opportunity to put on a larger production with the support of STaG. Past productions in the G12 theatre have included' The Country Wife

The Country Wife

The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The title itself contains a lewd pun...

, Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

, The World is Unreliable,Doctor Faustus', Liz Lockhead's Dracula, and Peribanez.

Studio Plays

'STaG in the Studio' is student theatre focused on theatre's bare essentials: passion, innovation and talent. Studio plays provide an opportunity for smaller scale productions and give students a chance to experiment with form and content.

Past shows have included The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Oleanna, The Pitchfork Disney, Feeling: Woyzeck, Girl in a Goldfish Bowl, Metamorphosis, Find Me, A Dolls House, The Presnyakov brothers Terrorism, and Present Laughter

Present Laughter

Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 and first staged in 1942 on tour, alternating with his lower middle-class domestic drama This Happy Breed...

New Writing Festival

Each year four plays are selected by STaG to premier in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

 at the STaG in the Studio new-writing festival. From these, one is chosen by a panel of theatre professionals and university academics to represent STaG in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

 at the Fringe

Fringe theatre

Fringe theatre is theatre that is not of the mainstream. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival as a ‘fringe’, writing: ‘Round the fringe...

 Festival

Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...

. 2008 year's winner, Dear Theo... by Dawn Taylor AND 2009 year's winner 'I Don't Live Here Anymore' were both performed at the Bedlam Theater.

New Talent Play

The New Talent Play is designed to encourage as much participation in STaG as possible. The production is auditioned for, rehearsed, and performed within a maximum of two weeks at the start of the first term. This production gives priority to new members, and stipulates that all those who audition will be cast.

Community Theatre

Community theatre is a platform for students to perform a wide variety of plays in a myriad of locations. Community theatre is designed to give students an outlet for any performance ideas they may have that wouldn't necessarily be appropriate or viable for a theatre environment. Plays have been performed in nurseries, schools, on the subway, and in many other venues around the Glasgow University campus.

STaG Nights

STaG Nights is STaG's annual student theatre festival, held in the G12 theatre on University Avenue. Billed as "Scotland's Largest Festival of Student Theatre" it hosts several short plays of approximately twenty minutes in length over three nights. The Theatre is heavily themed around a central theme which does not necessarily extend to the actual productions. Past themes have included "Cirque de la Nuit", "New Orleans" and in 2010 "Circa" which will involve the STaG technical team taking on the challenge of transforming the G12 theatre into a Big Top

Big Top

Big Top may refer to:* Big top , the biggest tent in early-20th century circuses, where the circus itself took place* Big Top , a Transformers character* Big Top , a children's television series in the 1950s...

. The theme for 2009 was "Light and Shade" and was conceived by Rob Jones.

Playgroup

Playgroup is STaG's weekly writer's group, for those interested in creating and discussing new drama, and was founded in 2004.

External links

• STaG website