ONCE Alice Clark had heard the story of her great-great-granny from Glasgow, who married a ship’s captain and took to the high seas, it was…
ONCE Alice Clark had heard the story of her great-great-granny from Glasgow, who married a ship’s captain and took to the high seas, it was inevitable she was going to write about her., from Brooklyn to Brisbane and all over, at a time when that was not easy to do,” says Alice, smiling.
“Jemima was the daughter of a stonemason and married ‘above her station’. She sailed with her husband, the only woman on a ship full of men, with all the challenges that we can well imagine came with that.” She adds: “As soon as I found out this woman was in our family, I was sure she’d be in a future play…”That play is Ship Rats, an uplifting drama about Jessie, the only woman on board a cargo ship, who is forced to take refuge with cook Jin Hai after the ship’s murder bell rings…
It is the latest instalment in A Play A Pie and A Pint’s autumn season at Oran Mor, co-presented with the Traverse“It’s not a biopic, but it’s loosely based on Jemima’s story, and explores a world of misogyny and colonialism as these two slightly suspicious strangers have to work together, and their relationship becomes something more,” says Alice.
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