Emergence Festival
Emergence Festival returns with a dazzling programme of performance from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Classical and Contemporary Text students!
About Emergence Festival
Emergence is a festival of new work from the graduating artists of the MFA Acting/Directing Classical and Contemporary Text programme.
Emergence 2025 will include six provocative live performances and a gripping short film triple bill presented across two nights in January, returning to Glasgow’s iconic Centre for Contemporary Arts. These nine projects are the result of what can happen when artists are given a small budget and autonomy to respond to the provocation: what is the future of theatre and film?
Perfect Dead Girls
There are three rules. One: you can do anything you want. Two: you cannot leave until they let you. Three: they are always watching you.
This is what a teenager discovers when she finds herself trapped in limbo following her sudden death. That, and another young girl who’s been stuck here longer than she’ll ever admit. Haunted by the lives they left behind and the circumstances of their deaths, the two girls must battle each other and their own demons to face what they’re truly willing to do to escape.
A gruesome yet tender exploration of girlhood, this collage of memories, movement, and Y2K pop culture is a surreal breakdown of the sensationalism of violence against women and the idea of the “perfect” victim.
Glasgow Green
Glasgow Green is an experimental performance blending live theatre and multimedia elements, framed as a reflective diary entry performed by three artists. It delves into the complex relationship between a director and their craft, exploring themes of hierarchy, creativity, and identity within the world of theatre.
The piece is both deeply personal and unapologetically political, exploring what it means to direct and be directed.
Rooted in autobiography, Glasgow Green reflects on the intersections of personal and professional, in an attempt to challenge traditional boundaries in form and content.
Hotel Otori Skin-Okubo
21:33. A crumbling love hotel in Shin-Okubo, Tokyo.
A receptionist begins her first shift at a family-owned hotel, currently managed by her uncle. With only a ragged manual that’s been handwritten by her grandfather and amended by her father during his youth (and with some help from the cleaning staff, Mrs.Rai), she navigates this peculiar world.
Her father’s favorite 80s soft rock plays from an old radio as she encounters Tokyo’s undercurrent of stories. A couple hiding their affair, a sex worker and her client, misguided foreign tourists, a pair trying to get lucky after a night of drinking all cross her path. Each room key she hands over reveals a slice of life, making her question the hotel’s legacy and its place in a transforming society.
This is a record of those unseen in the daylight. They were all here, and she was there as well.
Short Film Triple Bill
The Short Film Triple Bill presents three films by MFA CCT graduating artists:
Never Hike Alone, two interlocking short films, “Upcycled” and “Composting” by Beth Gallagher and Alison Kertz; NIGHTSHIFT by Chris Ginesi.
The Head
An ordinary woman. A bodiless head. And a wee bit of K-Pop. The Head is an abject and uncanny dark fairy tale.
Stage adaptation and performance by Kat Kim.
Based on The Head by South Korean writer Bora Chung, The Head was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. It is included in Chung’s collection of short stories Cursed Bunny. Originally published in South Korea in 2017, Cursed Bunny was published in the UK in 2021 and exploded in popularity as a record breaking, international bestseller praised by The New York Times. With ten genre-defying short tales combining elements of horror, fantasy and the surreal, it continues to win and scare fans all over the world.
one step closer to the Memories of Home
A paper box. A memory. A story waiting to be told.
A person leaves home with just a box. A person looks back. A person has a question about belonging.
The journey begins with a story shaped by isolations, connections, and discoveries, but this is more than one person’s tale.
one step closer (to the Memories of Home) invites you to become part of a living, evolving tapestry of shared experiences. Weaving sounds, movements, and the communal act of storytelling, this journey explores the question of what it means to call a place “home.”
Where will this journey take you?
Good Grief
Good Grief is a music theatre cabaret set within the lens of main performer Camille Corinne. At the start of the show, Cami and the band are set to find out about “Attitude of Gratitude” and the idea of being grateful, however, using tangents through music sprinkled with astutely aware anecdotes, it seems the answer to their initial question, was staring them in the face all along.
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