SMHAF 2022: Festival Report
You can now read our annual report from the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2022.
Artform: Theatre
Manic Street Creature wins the 2022 Mental Health Fringe Award
Manic Street Creature, a powerful new theatre show by Lancashire-born singer-songwriter Maimuna Memon, has won the 2022 Mental Health Fringe Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
One Mississippi: Mariem Omari Q&A
One Mississippi writer Mariem Omari reflects on the show’s five-year journey.
Theatre
Isla Cowan: Consumed
Playwright and theatre-maker Isla Cowan has created Consumed, a new spoken-word audio piece addressing disordered eating.
Looking back on “Mental”: interview with the vacuum cleaner
A few hours before the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival double-bill in Glasgow’s Tramway Theatre, our reporter Elaine Kordys met James from the vacuum cleaner. They talked about his piece Mental, a piece described as “one of the most powerful portraits of creativity and depression I’ve ever seen… a heart-rending journey” by a reviewer […]
The Assessment: Assessed
It is not often that on entering a venue to see a performance one is met with an atmosphere of trepidation. On the announcement that ‘The Assessment’ was ready for it’s audience there was a strange delay before one member finally went forward with his ticket. We then weaved our way through the Arches underground […]
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Interview with Howl[ing] director Drew Taylor: ‘I wanted to create something that documents our post-referendum time’
Promising to be an epic concert of words and music for post referendum Scotland, Howl [ing] will be performed at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and the Arches in Glasgow as part of Glasgay! and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. After last week’s preview in the Arches Café Bar, SMHAFF reporter Rob […]