PLAYS

FATHERS DAY - A 57 year old Widower should be relaxing and thinking about enjoying his retirement. Instead, he's become a Parent again - taking care of his seven year old Granddaughter, and being blackmailed - by the Child's Mother.

Actor - John MacQuisten                                                                                                         Partner - Scottish Network of Family Support Groups

LOVELIES BLEEDING  - The horrific unfolding story of a Mother-Daughter relationship.  When addiction comes to the door, Love flies out of the window - or does it? Can these women ever find one another again despite what Drugs have done to a young life?

Actor - Margaret Fraser                                                                                                             Partner - Scottish Network of Family Support Groups                                                           

B O G O F  Buy One Get One Free, companion piece to 'Fathers' Day' tells the story from the Mother's point of view -

how it is completely someone else's fault.  It always is - but she's got some honesty left, she used to be a nice lassie - the problem is that she has a supply of The World's Greatest Painkiller to hand. What's a Girl to do?

Actor - Vivien Taylor                                                                                                                           Partner - Drug and Alcohol Project Levenmouth

SECRETS - companion piece to Marina Barnard's study of Childhoods affected by parental drug misuse introduces the 'invisible child' - too scared to be noticed.

Actor - Vivien Taylor                                                                                                                                                 Partner - Professor Marina Barnard

'WILLIE MACK' - after the funeral, Willie and son Steqphen face the future. But what's it going to be - Willie sees his future through the bottom of a Glass, and Steven seriously disapproves. But why?  How attitudes to alcohol change over the years, and on who you are - and who you want to be. But the more it changes....?

Actors - Alexander West and Jon Eriksen                                                                                                                      Partner - LIBER8 Lanarkshire

ROSIE - was created at a Christmas present for Simpson House's annual fund raising Church Service and we just love her.

She's a clever, sparky wee thing who's faced the worst that can possibly have happenned to her, after dreading it for years - but there were people there to help her, so life actually started to get a bit better.  We wish there was someone for every wee Rosie...

Actor - Kelly Ann Farquhar                                  Partner - Simpson House, Church of Scotland Crossreach (Board of Social Responsibility)