A hugely powerful and timely insight into the UK's current nuclear debate. Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde, or Faslane, situated 40 miles outside Glasgow, is home to the UK's nuclear missile program: Trident.

With her family having worked in Faslane with Trident all her life, and with her friends protesting at the gates, Jenna endeavours to understand her relationship to Trident, the wider nuclear debate and activism.   Drawing upon interviews with individuals at the front line of the nuclear debate, including activists and MOD personnel, Jenna navigates her own journey through the politics, the protests, the peace camps and freedom of information requests to find out answers to the questions we should all be asking about our nuclear deterrent.

FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER 2016

SUMMERHALL LUSTRUM AWARD WINNER 2016

Creative Team
Writer / Performer: Jenna Watt
Sound Artist: Kim Moore
Dramaturg: Louise Stephens
Tour 2018 Stage Manager: Avalon Hernandez
Tour 2017 Stage Manager: Sam Ramsay
PR: Miriam Attwood, Storytelling PR
Producer: Showroom Callum Smith

Support

Faslane was a Contact Flying Solo Commission.
This project supported in development by: Creative Scotland Artists Bursaries / Cove Park / A National Theatre of Scotland Artist Attachment / West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Playscript

The full play script of FASLANE is available to purchase from Bloomsbury Books.

PRESS REVIEWS 
"Faslane is a very contemporary performance, politically engaged"
★★★★★ - Fringe Guru
"Jenna Watt performs with an intelligent creativity that keeps the audience gripped"
★★★★★ - Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
"fascinating and completely gripping.”
★★★★  - The Scotsman
"Fiercely intelligent fairytale-like take on the UK’s nuclear defence system"
★★★★ - The Stage
"Illuminating... Watt makes you feel very close to the issues."
★★★★ - The National Newspaper
"Watt’s show delicately pulls apart all of the complexities of the issue and puts them under her theatrical microscope. Her perspective is rare and fascinating."
★★★★ - The Telegraph
"powerful exploration of Britain's continuing maintenance of nuclear weapons"
★★★★ - The List 

Previous Tour

Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Upstairs at the Western, Leicester
Quarterhouse, Folkstone
The Spring, Havant
The Phoenix, Bordon
The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Live Theatre, Newcastle
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Platform, Easterhouse