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Morna's most recent work is focused on reviving her love of singing and performing through researching women throughout Scotland and abroad hidden from history, and singing songs and telling stories about their lives. These stories are told in her touring show “Bonnie Fechters” which is currently touring and where one of the delights in her work – as well as singing and performing - is to hear audience members telling their stories of loved ones or themselves whose stories too have been hidden. It is a joyful experience to be part of bringing these stories so proudly to light.
Her forthcoming show “Gie’s Peace” about women and peace is due to premiere at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Morna has been privileged to work with people from many countries including Ghana, Liberia, Itay, Poland, Denmark, Canada, France and to have collaborated with many theatres and agencies including the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, Dundee Rep.; Perth Theatre/Horsecross ; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Royal Court, London; Edinburgh’s International Dance Base ; Lung Ha and many more.
She has worked in many educational establishments and was Guest Lecturer at the Paolo Grassi Drama School, Italy and Seminar Leader to Post Graduate students at MilanUniversity Theatre Studies Dept on Translations and Crossing Borders in Text with Prof. Maggie Rose. as part of a Residency with Teatro Olmetto Milan, researching use of Commedia Dell Arte within a contemporary play.
For 10 years she worked at the ground-breaking Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh as a Director, Producer, Writer, Performer and Project Leader on a range of projects and productions aimed at including and empowering sections of the community often excluded or alienated from mainstream theatre.
Morna's most recent work is focused on reviving her love of singing and performing through researching women throughout Scotland and abroad hidden from history, and singing songs and telling stories about their lives. These stories are told in her touring show “Bonnie Fechters” which is currently touring and where one of the delights in her work – as well as singing and performing - is to hear audience members telling their stories of loved ones or themselves whose stories too have been hidden. It is a joyful experience to be part of bringing these stories so proudly to light.
Her forthcoming show “Gie’s Peace” about women and peace is due to premiere at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Morna has been privileged to work with people from many countries including Ghana, Liberia, Itay, Poland, Denmark, Canada, France and to have collaborated with many theatres and agencies including the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, Dundee Rep.; Perth Theatre/Horsecross ; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Royal Court, London; Edinburgh’s International Dance Base ; Lung Ha and many more.
She has worked in many educational establishments and was Guest Lecturer at the Paolo Grassi Drama School, Italy and Seminar Leader to Post Graduate students at MilanUniversity Theatre Studies Dept on Translations and Crossing Borders in Text with Prof. Maggie Rose. as part of a Residency with Teatro Olmetto Milan, researching use of Commedia Dell Arte within a contemporary play.
For 10 years she worked at the ground-breaking Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh as a Director, Producer, Writer, Performer and Project Leader on a range of projects and productions aimed at including and empowering sections of the community often excluded or alienated from mainstream theatre.