Up the Hill Jackie takes the audience on a journey with two Irish sisters, in which Rita forces young Jackie to travel to England to get a legal abortion. It holds promise of being a feminist story that allows viewers to question sisterhood, mental health and ownership of one’s body, but unfortunately it falls short.

Seanmhair, pronounced Shen-a-var is Scots Gaelic for Grandmother, an all knowing woman who has seen and witnessed the brutality of the world first hand. Director Kate Wasserberg takes us to the gloomy backstreets of 1950s Edinburgh in Hywel John’s gutsy new writing.