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"What Happens in Torry is a blueprint for what communities face all over Scotland" - Local Resident
A Play for Torry (Working Title) is a bold, community-led theatre production rooted in the stories and resistance of Torry residents—one of Aberdeen’s most marginalised communities. Co-created by theatre-maker Emer Morris with local artists, activists, and campaigners, the play explores the real-time impacts of oil dependency, housing loss, and the proposed rezoning of St Fittick’s Park. Set against Scotland’s contested energy transition, it asks: who is the Just Transition really for?
Drawing on 18 months of research and collaboration with residents, writers Mae Diansangu and Shane Strachan, Friends of the Earth Scotland, and Aberdeen Arts Centre, this production blends verbatim storytelling, original protest music, and intergenerational performance to create an urgent, tour-ready show. Developed with Friends of the Earth Scotland, Aberdeen Arts Centre and NESCAN, the project champions neurodivergent, and working-class voices. Through live performance, workshops, and creative documentation, AP4T is not only a powerful cultural intervention—it’s a blueprint for how art can galvanise communities, challenge power, and reimagine Scotland’s environmental future from the ground up.
We have completed Phase 1: developing a co-authored script, and we are in progress to seek further funding to develop Phase 2: and get the play to full production later in 2025. See below for more.
A Play for Torry (Working Title) is a bold, community-led theatre production rooted in the stories and resistance of Torry residents—one of Aberdeen’s most marginalised communities. Co-created by theatre-maker Emer Morris with local artists, activists, and campaigners, the play explores the real-time impacts of oil dependency, housing loss, and the proposed rezoning of St Fittick’s Park. Set against Scotland’s contested energy transition, it asks: who is the Just Transition really for?
Drawing on 18 months of research and collaboration with residents, writers Mae Diansangu and Shane Strachan, Friends of the Earth Scotland, and Aberdeen Arts Centre, this production blends verbatim storytelling, original protest music, and intergenerational performance to create an urgent, tour-ready show. Developed with Friends of the Earth Scotland, Aberdeen Arts Centre and NESCAN, the project champions neurodivergent, and working-class voices. Through live performance, workshops, and creative documentation, AP4T is not only a powerful cultural intervention—it’s a blueprint for how art can galvanise communities, challenge power, and reimagine Scotland’s environmental future from the ground up.
We have completed Phase 1: developing a co-authored script, and we are in progress to seek further funding to develop Phase 2: and get the play to full production later in 2025. See below for more.