Past Productions

FIERCE - an urban myth

Premiered on the 7th May 2004 in The Tron Theatre, Glasgow and then toured throughout Scotland.

Main | Cast & Crew | What the Press Said | Comic Book/ Graffiti Illustrations

AWARDS:  
Stage Award for Acting Excellence - Best Ensemble
Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland - Best Use of Music
Herald Devil
Nominated:  TMA Awards - Best Musical

When I was a kid there was two things
Comic books and trains
Comics coz the world's just tiny boxes of colour
Trains coz the speed, the sound, diesel engines, beautiful.

A tale of housing scheme heroes, pure mental chavs* and graffiti dreams

Having become renowned for their ground breaking site-specific work while also occasionally placing work on the stage, fierce - an urban myth saw Grid Iron touring to a wide variety of conventional spaces for the very first time. It was also the first time the company had created a musical, a process which all concerned thoroughly enjoyed.

The result of an eighteen month development process, working with young people in Muirhouse(Edinburgh), Easterhouse (Glasgow), Inverness, Keith and Livingston the tour, which took in everywhere from the large stages of Eden Court and macrobert fo the village halls of Keith and Campbeltown, culminated in a run in the Assembly Rooms Ballroon during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

fierce is the story of fourteen year old Finlay and his journey through the subculture of urban Scotland . Born with an extraordinary gift for drawing, Finlay only finds his true self when he has a spray can in his hand. Unable to relate to those around him, he finds release in the alter ego of his tag as his work begins to change the landscape and even the lives of those around him.

Along the way Finlay is befriended by Wee Babz, a hip hop-obsessed skateboarder with a gift for self-promotion; Edie, a moody goth with the biggest attitude in Scotland and Pokey who just wants to sit on a wheelie bin smoking Lambert & Butler.

Bringing together a cast of some of Scotland's most exciting young performers fierce asked the question - if your life is on the twenty-second floor, how can you make your mark on the world - before the rain, or the council, take it away?

I saw this train go by once wi a big painting on the side.
It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw.
I thought, if I could dae one o my drawings on the side of a train
be like. setting it free

fierce

Life can be epic wherever you are.

* Chav n: ned; radge; bam; townie; charver, scally; spide. As in "Shut your f**kin pus, you chav b*****d".

Containing bad language and some scenes of violence, this production was recommended for age 14+