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helloI tell stories. Sometimes as a playwright. Sometimes as a theatre director.
My work is lead by new and contemporary text and usually involves a rock/pop musical element. I am drawn to stories of obsession, sexuality and glamour. I like trying to better understand human nature by looking at how animals work. I create productions as Heroes Theatre from my base at Glasgow Theatre Arts Collective in Govan. I have made theatre that has been performed in fields, festivals, pools, pubs and stages across Scotland. Recent work includes a table top production of Simon Stephens' Sea Wall which toured Glasgow and London pubs, a live illustrated story book tackling anxiety (Hero) and a punk theatre poem celebrating teen grrl friendships and fish (GUTTERED). As an Assistant Director, I’ve worked with David Greig at The Lyceum, Edinburgh (Glory on Earth), and Andy Arnold at The Tron, Glasgow (Cock). Recent support for new performance projects includes MGC Futures, National Theatre of Scotland and the Tom McGrath Trust. If you'd like to be pals, I run a social play reading group, co-edit a fanzine of new Scottish playwriting and co-ordinate a peer review writing group. hmu. Eve x 
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writing...One Life Stand
Written by Eve Nicol Music by James Frewer and Honeyblood When we can have sex whenever, however and with whomever we want, why settle for a regular relationship? With the promise of fresh excitement just a swipe away, is Kat’s long-term relationship really her lifelong dream? One Life Stand is a late-night search for intimacy across a hyperconnected and hypersexualised city, exposing the loneliness found inside modern relationships where the expectations of lust and the limits of love are ever changing. Produced by Middle Child Venues across Hull, 6 - 12 July 2018 Latitude Festival, Suffolk, 16 July 2018 Paines Plough Roundabout @ Summerhall, 1 - 26 August 2018 Autumn tour dates TBA |
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assistant director on...The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other
by Peter Handke, in a translation by Meredith Oakes directed by Wils Wilson and Janice Parker "This 450-character production will be taking to The Lyceum stage directed by Lyceum Associate Artist Wils Wilson, in association with Janice Parker Projects. We are throwing open the doors of The Lyceum and welcoming a large scale cast of Edinburgh residents onto the stage to create this exciting production." Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 31 May - 2 June 2018 |
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What Girls Are Made Of
by Cora Bissett, directed by Orla O'Loughlin. A Traverse Theatre Company and Raw Material co-production in association with Regular Music "In 1992 a schoolgirl from Fife was catapulted to a rock star life in an indie band. Touring with Radiohead, partying with Blur, she was living the dream. Until she wasn’t. Based on her teenage diaries, this is the true story of Cora Bissett’s rollercoaster journey from the girl she was to the woman she wanted to be. Performing with a live band, directed by Orla O’Loughlin, Cora celebrates life’s euphoric highs and epic shitstorms, asking what wisdom we should pass to the next generation and which glorious mistakes we should let them make." Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, 3 - 26 August 2018 |
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in development...Parlour
A-procedurally-generated-true-crime-docutheatre-game currently in development. Supported by MGC Futures. |
"one of the most attractive theatrical options in town"
Exeunt on Sea Wall
Exeunt on Sea Wall
"decidedly polished and places its up-and-coming director as a unique voice in Scottish theatre"
★★★★ TV Bomb on GLITTERED
★★★★ TV Bomb on GLITTERED
"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 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
★★★★ The Herald on The Pitchfork Disney
“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
★★★★ Exeunt on The Pitchfork Disney
COME, BEEN AND GONE*
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