Scale Model - Glasgow Girls
Design created as part of the Edinburgh-based Scenehouse course in design and construction for theatre.
Scale 1:50.
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This design was developed for a hypothetical site-specific performance of Glasgow Girls, a contemporary musical conceived for the stage by Cora Bissett and David Greig. The location was to be a warehouse in the east-side of Edinburgh, and the design played heavily on the play's major themes of cultural identity, immigration, female solidarity and the sense of belonging.
This is the real-life story of seven feisty teenagers, and their fight to save their friend and her asylum-seeking family from deportation. The story develops in a world of council-housing, concrete tower blocks and brutalist Glasgow architecture, contrasted by brightly painted graffiti relating to the girls culture and family backgrounds.
Using street art as a form of visual claim over the brutal estate that the girls call home, the set reflects the characters' struggle for cultural identity in the world of unforgiving British immigration policy, and portrays the deeply rooted connections to their countries of origin as well as the Scottish culture in which they are coming of age.