“A compelling look at teenage identity… The real life issue takes on heightened dramatic resonance, fractured and splintered by Gregg’s syncopated prose style.” — Irish Times
Edinburgh Fringe First Award - 2016
Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play
Writers Guild of Ireland ZeBBie Award for Best Theatre Script
A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, Scorch was inspired by recent UK cases of “gender fraud.”
For those who feel they're not living the right life, online is a place to be yourself.
Out in the real world, though, things can be very different.
Stacey Gregg's play for a solo performer premiered at the Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast, in 2015, co-produced by Prime Cut, MAC and Outburst. It won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play and the Writers Guild of Ireland ZeBBie Award for Best Theatre Script. It was presented in Paines Plough's Roundabout at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It then toured Ireland.