Kathy McKean

Moving, political and unafraid, Queer Plays Volume One brings together eight vital works by Scottish playwrights whose voices have helped shape—and challenge—contemporary theatre. Spanning 50 years of queer Scottish theatre, styles and theatrical forms, these plays explore identity, desire, family, faith, friendship, politics, memory and belonging with wit, urgency and heart. From intimate acts of self-revelation to sharp comedy, mythic reinvention and queer resistance, this anthology captures the richness and range of LGBTQ+ Scottish drama. Published with the support of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, this landmark collection is a celebration of queer lives on stage. Foreword by Alan Cumming. Curated by JD Stewart Contents: Sex, Chips and Holy Ghost by Jo Clifford Medea on the Mic by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh Ness by Hannah McGregor Someone Good (or, The Gay Extremist) by Kathy McKean Mum, Dad, There’s Something I Got To Tell You by John Binnie The Fork by Ian Brown Flick and Pie Go Fishing by Laila Noble Molly’s Collar & Tie by Christopher Deans

In this urgent new adaptation after Euripides, Kathy McKean brings Medea startlingly close. In a space between myth and modernity, an outsider in Corinth watches her life rewritten: Jason trades the woman who saved him for power, and Creon offers exile as “mercy”. With no chorus of citizens to hide behind, the audience becomes witness, jury, confidant—drawn into Medea’s fierce intelligence, corrosive grief and incandescent rage. McKean’s language is contemporary, muscular and lyrical, honouring the epic scale of Greek tragedy while exposing its intimate damage: love as compulsion, humiliation as fuel, vengeance as a force that burns everyone it touches. Medea fights to reclaim her story, her children and the sovereignty of her own heart. Written for a small cast—Nurse, Tutor, Jason and Creon—it builds to a breathtaking, brutal reckoning: terrifying, exhilarating and impossible to forget. A bold, accessible classic for modern audiences. Cast: 4 actors Duration: 90 minutes