News
- You can hear Gerda currently on radio in another of the legendary Paul Temple Mysteries, in which she plays Paul’s wife Steve. This latest series, in eight action-packed episodes, entitled Paul and Steve, is broadcast on BBC Radio 4, every Friday at 11.30am, for 8 weeks, from 11th June, 2010.
- Gerda's poetry will be published in the forthcoming edition of New Writing Scotland (volume 28: Stone Going Home Again). She will be reading at its launch in Blackwell’s Bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh, (more or less opposite Chambers Street) on August 4th at 6pm.
- Gerda will be speaking at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, on the subject of directing, with Hamish Glen (Artistic Director of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), chaired by director/writer John Carnegie, at the Festival Theatre, on 18th August, 2-4pm. This forum is organised under the auspices of Scottish Equity.
- Gerda will be appearing at North Berwick's Fringe By The Sea, in Keep Smiling Through,with her radio husband, Crawford Logan (Paul and Steve Temple), Ralph Laing, and Dave Batchelor. Dave has produced a hilarious and moving show, with a mix of songs and stories from the Home Front during WW2, based on actual diaries of the period, with Ralph Laing. Where: Masonic Hall. When: Wednesday 11th August, 12pm & 4pm Cost: £12.00 http://www.fringebythesea.co.uk/events
- Gerda will be giving the keynote speech at the annual meeting of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, at the Queen's Hotel in Perth, on the 26th August. The background to this invitation is the work that Gerda has done on speech therapy with her daughter Galina, details of which can be read on this website under the heading Downs Syndrome.
- Gerda will be reading at the Peebles Arts Festival, with fellow Borders poets Ian MacFadyen and Philip Hutton, on Sunday 5th August, 3pm, in the Cringletie House Hotel - a stunningly beautiful location, lovely place to be on a mellow early autumn Sunday afternoon. http://www.cringletie.com/
- Gerda has written a play for stage, entitled Federer Versus Murray, which was premiered at Oran Mor, Glasgow, in May, playing to packed houses. The fabulous cast: Maureen Beattie and Gerry Mulgrew, and the wonderful saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski.
- Look out for Gerda's poetry and prose published in recent issues of Scotland's leading literary magazines: New Writing Scotland, Edinburgh Review, Markings and Chapman.
- Communicado News (Gerda is Associate Director of the company): our production of The Government Inspector, directed by the company’s Artistic Director, Gerry Mugrew, was nominated for the 2010 CATS awards in 4 categories - Best Production, Best Ensemble, Best Actor (John Bett), and Best Music (Aly MacRae). We are delighted to report that the fabulously talented Aly MacRae won the Best Music category! Watch out for our revival of The Governement Inspector at Perth Theatre, Spring 2011.
- Gerda is currently writing her own songs, and working with a band – piano, saxophone, double bass and percussion. Watch this space! She is also writing a two-part drama for BBC Radio Scotland, and an afternoon play for BBC Radio 4.