Aine King

Region: Scotland

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Áine King is a London-Irish writer and theatre-maker now living in Orkney.

Áine was an associate director for Otherplace Productions, Brighton from 2008-13, adapting and directing Nick Burbridge’s Hard Chair Stories at The Rose Theatre (Shakespeare’s Globe) London, and Edward Bond’s anti-war play Tuesday, which Bond admired and described as, “Very,very interesting…pushing the play into 2010, in a good way.”

Dracula in 2010 won a Fringe Report award for Best Auteur; script, design and direction.

Áine now lives in Orkney, where she has adapted and directed Tom Muir’s folk stories, Trowie Tales for the Orkney Childrens Theatre Company.

Her climate-crisis stage play, ‘Burning Bright’ won the 2022 David MacClennan Award and was produced at A Play, A Pie & A Pint, Glasgow and at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

Her short screenplay, ‘Running Out’ was produced by BBC Scotland / National Theatre Scotland in 2021 as part of Scenes For Survival.

Her recent work has been performed at the Southwark Playhouse, The Arcola Theatre, Cork Arts Theatre, TUBU Fest, Texas USA, Rum Diaries Glasgow and for National Theatre of Scotland.

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Genres

Online writing

Poetry

Scripted reality

Short story

Theatre

Sample of work

ONE MINUTE MONOLOGUE FOR SLAM #METOO

SAM:

I was expecting the nurse

Armload of shitty sheets

Heading downstairs

Doorbell

Didn’t even look

Just elbowed up the lock

‘come in’

Not

The

Nurse.

He’s older

But he’s

Him

And everything inside me goes cold water

And sick.

Its twenty years and he’s still here

And I’m still

Sick

‘Father’

He’s already

Smiling

Undoing his coat

‘So you remember me, Sam.’

Like I’d ever forget

‘Good to see you home again’

And he squeezes my arm

Just a bit too hard

Pulling back a bit when he gets a whiff of shitty sheets…

‘She’s not conscious. They gave her m-m-m-morphine’

I’m stammering again

Like I used to

‘She’ll not know you…there’s no need…the nurse is coming’

He’s

Halfway up the stairs

Looking

Down

On me

‘I promised your mother I’d be here at the end. Final Unction. God’s forgiveness. Sam. Now, you make us both a cup of tea. A drop of brandy in it if you have some. And come sit by me.’

(trying to control breathing)

M-my m-m-m-mother

M-m-m-y mo-m-m-mother is dying

And I w-w-wanted to be with her

And I c-c-c-c-can’t

I c-c-c-cant….

Writer's credits

THEATRE

Hard Chair Stories (dramatist / director) Otherplace Productions 2008

Dracula (dramatist / director) Otherplace Productions 2011

Trowie Tales (dramatist / director) O.T.C Co 2017

Finding John Rae (stage adaptation) 2018

Father (writer) #MeToo Kings Cross, London 2018

Wicked (writer) You Are Invited, Southwark Playhouse, London 2018

Flotsam (writer) Rum Diaries, Rum Shack Glasgow 2019

We, The People (co-writer) The Gathering, National Theatre Scotland 2019

Running Out (writer) Scenes for Survival BBC Scotland 2020

Burning Bright (David MacLennan Award – winner) PPP / Traverse 2022-3

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