Bio & CV
Photographer: Mihaela Bodlovic
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Eve Nicol is a playwright and director from Glasgow, specialising in new plays and music theatre.
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. As a director, Eve has lead new productions for the National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse and Tron, and developed new work with playwrights including Douglas Maxwell, Stef Smith and David Greig. 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 supported by the Scottish Funding Council. In 2020, Eve will be working on projects with the National Theatre of Scotland, the Lyceum, Cumbernauld Theatre and the Comedy Unit and supported by Playwrights' Studio, Scotland in development of new work. 
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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"This is 'find your tribe' gig-theatre."
Exeunt "Few shows have captured the conflicting emotions evoked by dating apps and social media. None has done it as stylishly as this." ★★★★ The Stage "This year's Fringe surely bares few more evocative reflections of life as a British twenty something in 2018." ★★★★ The Scotsman "The whole show is absorbed with colour, in a city of loneliness where everyone is terrified of the dark.” ★★★★ A Younger Theatre |
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. |
I Can Go Anywhere
"honest about the allure of tribalism and the emotional pull of music"
★★★★ The Guardian "an absorbing, intelligent play that takes on a set of tricky topics" ★★★★ The Stage "brilliant new play" ★★★★ The Scotsman "explosively on target" ★★★★ The Herald "Eve Nicol's direction is a triumph" ★★★★ The Reviews Hub "a nail-biting reflection on identity politics" ★★★★ Edinburgh 49 |
Stevie is a disillusioned academic who once wrote an unfashionable book on youth movements in Britain, now struggling to cope after a painful break-up.
His misery is interrupted by Jimmy who lands unexpectedly on his doorstep beaming with excitement. Jimmy is 100% Mod: oversized military parka, fitted Italian suit, dessy boots, pork pie hat. The full package. Jimmy is seeking asylum in the UK. With just a few days before the substantive interview that’s going to decide his fate, the stakes are high. So he came up with a brilliant plan. A plan that’s going to work against all odds. It has to work. He can’t go back. And Stevie has an important part to play. I Can Go Anywhere is a big-hearted call to arms; a Mod anthem to solidarity and acceptance in an increasingly hostile world. |
Written by Douglas Maxwell
Cast - Nebli Basani & Paul McCole Director - Eve Nicol Designer - Jen McGinley Lighting Designer - Benny Goodman Sound Designer - Michael John McCarthy Produced by Traverse Theatre Company, December 2019 |
The Mistress Contract"what this fine production achieves is to suggest a different approach to male-female relationships" ★★★★ The Scotsman "Eve Nicol's beautifully judged direction lets the pair's relationship smoulder" ★★★★ The List "chic" ★★★★ The Herald |
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 - Benny Goodman Sound Designer - Kevin Murray Movement Director - Emma Jayne Park Produced by Tron Theatre Company, May 2019 |
Additional Press
"One of Scottish theatre's rising directors ... she has explored contemporary experiences of sexuality and sensual experience through a distinctive and dynamic dramaturgy, incorporating elements of gig-theatre and new writing."
The List
The List
"Theatremaker Eve Nicol has form when it comes to suffusing her work – whether as director or playwright – with Scottish music."
The List
The List
"Eve Nicol makes her directorial debut at the Traverse following an incredible couple of years"
The National
The National
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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 |
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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 |
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"one of the most attractive theatrical options in town"
Exeunt on Sea Wall |
“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 |
CONTACT
Tom McGrath Writers’ Room
c/o CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3JD
c/o CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3JD