{"id":1144,"date":"2020-03-20T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advertizer.co.uk\/insight\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:16:31","slug":"qa-with-lorna-martin-writer-of-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advertizer.co.uk\/insight\/qa-with-lorna-martin-writer-of-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A with Lorna Martin: writer of \u2018Rose\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lorna Martin is an Edinburgh based playwright, award-winning journalist, former Scotland editor of The Observer, mother and author of critically acclaimed comic memoir \u2018Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown\u2019. She spoke with Rona Simpson about her play \u2018Rose\u2019 which will be part of the Oran Mor: A Play, a Pie and a Pint series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is Rose Reilly and what makes her story remarkable?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rose Reilly is arguably Scotland\u2019s most successful footballer and the only Scot ever to have scored in a World Cup final. Despite this, Rose\u2019s isn\u2019t as widely known as she should be. Her story is remarkable and inspiring because she faced non-stop obstacles; barriers that would have floored most of us. But with superhuman passion and determination, she pushed expectations, judgement, discrimination, and disappointment aside and battled on. Nothing would stop her pursuing her dream of being a girl who wanted to play football. This was when the prevailing attitude in Scotland was that football simply wasn\u2019t a game for girls. Rose Reilly was having none of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s the most empowering and inspiring story I\u2019ve ever had the privilege and pleasure of telling.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You seem drawn to stories that are based on real events. Your comic memoir \u2018Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown\u2019 was drawn from your own experiences in psychotherapy. How different was it to be exploring another person\u2019s life and personal experiences and did you feel that there were any events or areas of Rose\u2019s life that you decided to leave alone?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was younger I wrote quite a lot about my car crash romantic life, but as I\u2019ve got older, and hopefully a little wiser, that part of my life is now too boring to write about. Also, as a journalist (I previously worked for the Herald and the Observer) I always loved interviewing people and writing about other people\u2019s lives and stories, which were always much more interesting and fascinating than my own! With Rose, and the wider world of women\u2019s football in Scotland in the 70s and 80s, it has been a real joy to delve into. Nothing was out of bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your favourite scene in the play?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like the sad bits! But there\u2019s also a lovely scene which takes place in Greenock. In 1972, for the first official Scotland versus England women\u2019s international, the SFA refused to allow the match to be played on any of their official pitches. Instead, it was played at Ravenscraig Park, in November, in a snow storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should people come and see Rose?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People should come and see Rose because it\u2019s a funny and at times poignant story about a young girl from Ayrshire who became an accidental feminist and transgressor, who refused to play by society\u2019s rules and who was eventually named the greatest female footballer in the world. It\u2019s the most empowering and inspiring story I\u2019ve ever had the privilege and pleasure of telling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Rose by Lorna Martin was due to take place at the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock in April.
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