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Should teachers be armed? That鈥檚 the question confronted in a fearless and funny new play about guns, schools and millennials from a young Scottish writer.

Rebecca Sweeney鈥檚 play Squall debates gun control in drama. It鈥檚 a playwright鈥檚 urgent response to both the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida and the March for Our Lives youth protest movement sweeping across the United States.

Following an intimate performance of the play, Rebecca shares why she created an alternative reality of drills and lockdowns, imagining a world in which Scotland armed teachers after the Dunblane primary school massacre in 1996.

In Squall, Rob is played by Michael Ajao, Alice is played by Jamie Marie Leary and Erin is played by Kay McAllister. Squall was directed for the stage by Adura Onashile, then adapted and directed for radio by Emma Harding. Squall was commissioned by The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of their Youthquake season of new writing.

Presented and produced by Kirsty McQuire

Photo: Michael Ajao, Jamie Marie Leary and Kay McAllister performing in the play Squall at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Credit: David Anderson