Bio & CV
Photographer: Mihaela Bodlovic
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Eve Nicol is a playwright from Glasgow.
Eve’s plays include If You’re Feeling Sinister [a play with songs] and One Life Stand. Eve’s work has been produced across the UK by Avalon and BBC Arts, Middle Child, Slung Low and developed by the Traverse and the National Theatre of Scotland. Eve is a Council Member of Scottish Society of Playwrights and published by Oberon Books. Eve earned a MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy from the University of Glasgow. Eve also regularly works as a director, leading new productions and projects for the National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse, Tron and Lyceum Theatre. 
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Selected Work
If You're Feeling Sinister
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He was exhausted by life. She was tired of waiting for it to begin. Now Boss and Kid are on the run.
A reckless artist waiting to be found and an academic looking to lose himself could pull off Glasgow's greatest heist if they can keep their hands off one another and on the steering wheel. A story about desire, shame and self destruction adapted from Belle and Sebastian's iconic album. |
Book by Eve Nicol
Lyrics by Stuart Murdoch Music by Belle & Sebastian Cast - Sarah Swire and Alan McHugh Director - Paul Brotherston Musical Director - Sarah Swire Set and Costume Designer - Jen McGinley Sound Designer - Calum Paterson Lighting Designer - Dave Shea Dramaturg - Graham Eatough If You’re Feeling Sinister [a play with songs] was first presented by Avalon and BBC Arts in association with Tron Theatre at The Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, Edinburgh, on 2nd August 2019. |
One Life Stand |
Kit and Kat are on a break, but Kit doesn’t know it yet. With the promise of fresh excitement just a swipe away, is Kat’s long-term lover really her lifelong dream?
One Life Stand is a gig with a story about the search for sex and intimacy in a world full of distractions, exposing the loneliness of modern relationships. Will Kit and Kat stay together, or will the allure of sex elsewhere prove too strong? |
Written by Eve Nicol
Music by James Frewer and Honeyblood Cast - Tanya Loretta Dee, Edward Cole and Anna Mitchelson Director - Paul Smith Musical Director - James Frewer Designer - Natalie Young Lighting Designer - Jose Tevar Sound Designer - Ed Clarke General Manager - Emily Anderton One Life Stand was commissioned and produced by Middle Child Theatre. Toured venues in Hull, Latitude Festival, Paines Plough Roundabout and theatres across UK, July - October 2018. |
The Mistress Contract |
He provides her with a home and an income. In return, she agrees to give herself up as sexual property to him.
Over the course of 30 years, a woman and a man document their experiment in living a relationship defined by an unconventional contract. Stimulating each other’s minds, bodies and appetites between blow jobs and breakfasts in bed, She and He debate body image, gender equality, generational divide and sex in later life. Inspired by the real-life couple behind the memoir, The Mistress Contract sets out to establish clear cut rules of engagement between the sexes in a complicated world of blurred lines and grey areas |
Written by Abi Morgan inspired by the memoir The Mistress Contract by She and He.
Cast - Lorraine McIntosh & Cal Macaninch Director - Eve Nicol Designer - Alisa Kalyanova Lighting Designer - Jose Tevar Sound Designer - Kevin Murray Movement Director - Emma Jayne Park Produced by Tron Theatre Company |
Press
As playwright
"This is 'find your tribe' gig-theatre."
Exeunt on One Life Stand
Exeunt on One Life Stand
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"Few shows have captured the conflicting emotions evoked by dating apps and social media. None has done it as stylishly as this."
★★★★ The Stage on One Life Stand |
"This year's Fringe surely bares few more evocative reflections of life as a British twenty something in 2018."
★★★★ The Scotsman on One Life Stand |
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"The whole show is absorbed with colour, in a city of loneliness where everyone is terrified of the dark.”
★★★★ A Younger Theatre on One Life Stand |
"decidedly polished and places its up-and-coming director as a unique voice in Scottish theatre"
★★★★ TV Bomb on GLITTERED |
As director |
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"fragile, heartfelt and painfully honest tribute delivered with a raging calm"
★★★★ The Herald on The Drift |
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"Moving, charming, chastening, it is precisely the kind of work for which our National Theatre of Scotland was created."
★★★★ Herald on Sunday on The Drift |
"Eve Nicol's beautifully judged direction lets the pair's relationship smoulder"
★★★★ The List on The Mistress Contract |
"what this fine production achieves is to suggest a different approach to male-female relationships"
★★★★ The Scotsman on The Mistress Contract |
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"one of the most attractive theatrical options in town"
Exeunt on Sea Wall |
★★★★ The Herald on The Mistress Contract
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“For a production that inhabits the darkest, bleakest recesses of human nature, it somehow makes you feel relentlessly, violently alive.”
★★★★ Exeunt on The Pitchfork Disney |
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"There’s a deep artistry here and a searing vividness of imagination that leaves audiences shocked and subtly changed."
★★★★ The Scotsman on The Pitchfork Disney |
“The skill of Eve Nicol’s production is in harnessing her cast’s fine performances of them into one flowing coherent whole”
★★★★ The Herald on The Pitchfork Disney |
Shop
All items available for purchase are also available as a swap for your own zines/plays/artwork. Please email eve.c.nicol@gmail.com to arrange a swap.
Shame:
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One Life StandPlaytext.
When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship? With the promise of fresh excitement just a swipe away, is Kat’s long-term lover really her lifelong dream? One Life Stand is a late-night search for intimacy across a hyperconnected, hypersexual city, exposing the loneliness sometimes found in modern relationships, where the expectations of love and lust are ever-changing. 72 pages Paperback published by Oberon Books |
Sugar #2: Take Me Somewhere specialZine.
New Scottish playwriting zine from Laurie Motherwell and Eve Nicol 32 pages, B&W, colour cover May 2018 A specially commissioned edition responding to the Take Me Somewhere programme. New micro plays by Conor O'Loughlin, Meghan Tyler, Laurie Motherwell and Morna Young; pages from Cora Bissett's and Rosana Cade's notebooks; interview with Ben Kidd; illustrations by Georgie Mac. |
Where Do We Go From Here?Zine.
A response to the #MeToo movement created by members of the Glasgow theatre community. 28 pages, full colour. October 2017 SOLD OUT
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Sugar #1Zine.
New Scottish playwriting zine from Laurie Motherwell and Eve Nicol 32 pages, B&W, colour cover September 2017 An extract of Jenny Knott's Bulldog, pages from Kieran Hurley's Heads Up notebook, contributions from Andrew Edwards, Amy Conway, Douglas Maxwell, Oliver Emanuel, Linda McLaughlin, and lines stolen from Linda McLean and David Leddy. SOLD OUT
Available to borrow from Playwrights' Studio, Scotland library |