Amy Conway
Writer, Performer, & Creative Facilitator
Diary of an Overseas Voyage
Inspired by Amy's great-grandfather’s WWII journals, documenting his conscription and journey to fight for the British Empire in the Burma Campaign, this new production explores the personal and political legacy of colonial military service.
Blending clown, Butoh dance, and family testimony, it interrogates nationalism, inherited memory, and the absurdity of war. Collaborating with choreographer Pik Kei Wong, Diary of an Oversea Voyage will examine how colonial histories live on—shaping identities, bodies, and power structures across generations and geographies.
Supported by Magnetic North as part of Rough Mix and ReMix.
Gwenevere Lockhart Rides Again!
Loosely inspired by the life and work of the prolific romance novelist, the late Dame Barbara Cartland, and the continuing popularity of romantic and erotic fiction, Gwenevere Lockhart Rides Again! is both a parody and a love letter to an underappreciated literary genre through a contemporary lens, which centres female and queer pleasure.
With book and lyrics by Amy Conway and music by Andy McGregor, this brand new piece of musical theatre combines the witty repartee and camp of Noël Coward’s self-consciously theatrical characters, with the wordplay and lightness of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Operettas, via the tongue in cheek contemporary flavour and pure raunch of Netflix's 'Bridgerton'.
Currently in development with support from Creative Scotland.
The Implorer
Weaving together the lives of two artists across time —1880s Paris and 2025 Glasgow—into a shared studio space haunted by Camille Claudel’s iconic sculpture L’Implorante.
As Claudel and her friend Jessie Lipscomb grapple with artistic ambition and patriarchal power, a modern-day art teacher, Bette, confronts aging, legacy, and the politics of the body. Using plenty of artistic license to mine the contemporary relevance of Claudel’s life, love affair with Rodin, and tragic decline, the play explores themes of visibility, creative passion, and the cost of being a woman in art. An urgent reflection on desire, defiance, and who gets remembered.
Research and first draft supported by Playwrights' Studio Scotland's Self Led Projects fund, the Glasgow School of Art and the Burrell Collection.
Blood Moon
A reimagined werewolf story about the transformation of body and mind during the menstrual cycle, the sometimes alienating impact of this process, and the nurturing, restorative power of the collective.
This first sharing of the work is created and performed with a community ensemble of menstruators who have come together to share their lived experience, to move as a pack, and to howl at the moon. An outdoor, physical theatre encounter like no other.
Blood Moon premiered at Summerhall Courtyard as part of Manipulate Festival 2023.
Blood Moon is a collaboration between theatre artist-performers Amy Conway and Melanie Jordan is supported by Magnetic North Theatre Company’s Seed Fund 2022.
Design by Fergus Dunnet & Julia Darrouy, lighting by Brian Hutchison.
