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Winners Wear Crowns

A darkly comic monologue written and directed by Tightlaced Theatre's Artistic Director Jen McGregor, performed Debbie Cannon.

Patricia Harris Williams just wants her baby girl's dreams to come true. Isn't that what every parent wants? To be beautiful and admired and adored? As mother and daughter get caught up in Tennessee's child beauty pageant scene, Patricia slips unwittingly into a spiralling obsession with victory, failure and rhinestone appliqués. But who is the human being seeking refuge in the clichés? Tightlaced Theatre invites you to find out...

Jen McGregor is an Edinburgh-based writer, director, general meddler and co-founder of Discover 21. Her writing credits include Creepie Stool, a play about Jenny Geddes commissioned by the Just Festival, and a number of short plays which have featured at Words Words Words at the Traverse, Artists Anonymous at Jackson's Lane, Stage to Page at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and at Jo Caulfield's Speakeasy.

Debbie Cannon is an Edinburgh-based actor who works regularly with Tightlaced Theatre and has appeared in I Promise I Shall Not Play Billiards, Songs from the Heart & Elsewhere and The Jumblies. She is also a writer and Voice of the Number 10 bus!

Winners Wear Crowns is part of Discover 21's #fivepoundtheatre scheme. Come and support locally produced professional theatre!