Sea and Land and Sky

Abigail Docherty was was a Scriptwriting Fellow for the Scottish Arts Council from 2003 to 2004 and a visiting writer at the International School of Audio-Visual Creation in Paris in 2003. Her plays include Room (Mayfesto Festival, Tron Theatre), 1000 Paper Cranes (Imaginate International Children's Festival, Goblin Market (Southwark Playhouse) and The Waves (Tristan Bates Theatre).

'Abigail Docherty, remember the name. Her new play Sea And Land And Sky - which is inspired by the real diaries of women who served in the Scottish Women's Hospital expeditions in the First World War - is surely one of the best new plays to emerge in Scottish theatre in the last decade. Powerful, poetic and resonatingly tragic, it is a soul-shuddering example of the kind of profound and ambitious writing which is all too rare in new British theatre.' Mark Brown, Sunday Herald, 17.10.10 'it captures something of the carnage of Sarah Kane's Blasted and the desolation of Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children. Its strength is in the strange, allucinatory air that undercuts the period realism' Mark Fisher, Guardian, 15.10.10 'Abigail Docherty's Sea And Land And Sky, winner of this year's Open Stage new play competition at the Tron Theatre, is an ambitious poetic drama' Joyce McMillan, Scotsman, 15.10.10