Sophie Jacome is a Canadian playwright, theatre maker and researcher living in Edinburgh.
Her work has been produced in Canada and workshopped internationally.
About
Sophie has an artistic and personal interest in exploring feminist and LGBTQ perspectives in theatre as well as re-contextualizing the Classical world for a modern stage.
University of Edinburgh; PhD 2024-
University of Edinburgh; MSc Playwriting w/ Distinction 2019-2020
Dalhousie University; Double Major BA Classics and Theatre Studies 2015-2019
Current Projects
PhD by research at the University of Edinburgh, studying 21st-century, politically-motivated productions of ancient Greek tragedies.
Work
Euripidaristophanize (2024)
Euripidaristophanize follows the intertwining lives and work of playwrights Euripides and Aristophanes as they write through one of the most tumultuous periods of Ancient Greek history. With 40-odd years of disagreements, competitions, fallouts, theatre, and war between them, the lines that divide hate and admiration, ridicule and support, friendship and animosity all begin to blur. The playwrights take our audience—along with the other players on stage—on a journey through their catalogue of work as they grapple with mounting political tensions, creative censorship, the rights and roles of women, and the ever-growing question: in a time of crisis, catastrophe, and war, what is the point in creating art at all?
Commissioned by the Fountain School of Performing Arts 2022, full staged production by FSPA March, 2024.
All the Breathless (2022)
The last stragglers of a rained-out expedition, Peter and Claire are determined to discover the treasure rumoured to be found at the bottom of a mysterious pit — and the Pit is determined to let them, no matter the cost.
Longlisted for the David MacLennan Award through A Play, a Pie, and a Pint, Glasgow 2022.
Glass Houses (2020)
Years after the massacre of the Donnelly family at the hands of their community, Johnny O’Connor —the only witness— is still grappling with the reality of what he saw, and what it means to live in a world in which that could happen.
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, 2023. Professionally workshopped as part of the MSc Playwriting at the University of Edinburgh; Zoom reading presented in association with the Traverse Theatre and Playwrights Studio Scotland, August 2020.
The Mask of Agamemnon (2020)
Mask lived underground for about 3000 years and not much happened. Mask was in the Schliemann house for the length of their lifetimes and not much happened. Mask is in a glass box now and still doesn't quite know who they are.
Staged Reading via Zoom with 'The Canadian Play Thing' (May 2020). Professionally workshopped as part of a MSc Playwriting at the University of Edinburgh.
The Great Teller of Tales (2020)
A re-telling of the homecoming of Odysseus set in a world in which every transgression a man commits against a woman materializes in the form of a branch he must carry his whole life.
Commissioned by 'Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company' for the anthology piece Forest Town. Performed at the Park Place Theatre in Halifax, NS with support from Shakespeare by the Sea.
handle with care (2019)
We meet Julia -pregnant, heartbroken, soaking wet- locked in conversation with her fractured self and reliving the memories that led her to this point. Running through her mind are questions of identity, sexuality, and ownership of the self. Again and again we circle back to the single image of her at the top of a great staircase and wondering whether this is it.
Professionally workshopped as part of a MSc Playwriting at the University of Edinburgh.
Objects (2017)
In a 1958 academic waiting room, punctuated by the laughter of important men we never see, archeologist Helen waits to be invited in by her husband and business partner, Richard, to present on her findings. Eventually, secretary Rosemary comes out to keep Helen company. As time stretches on and the two women get to know each other more, they come to realize that neither of their lives were what they thought they were.
Professionally workshopped at Dalhousie University; Produced by the DTS headlining the 2018/2019 season (directed by Sophie Jacome); staged reading hosted by Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, November 2019; distanced production with Mount Allison University, December 2020.