TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Hamish Speaks to Douglas Maxwell. Douglas has been one of the most popular and produced playwrights in Scotland for over a decade.
His work in the last few years has included Promises Promises (which transferred to New York under the title The Promise in 2011, where it earned a Drama Desk Award Nomination for the actress Joanna Tope); a 10th Anniversary revival of the award winning Decky Does a Bronco; a version of Wedekind's Spring Awakening; The Miracle Man for the NTS, and Small Town, written with DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight.
He has written two musicals: Watertight, with music by Richard Taylor and The Bookie with music by Aly Macrae.
His work for young people includes Too Fast (which was performed by 25 Youth theatres as part of the NT New Connections Festival 2011), Prom, Mancub, Helmet and The Mother Ship (which won the Brian Way Award for Best Play For Young People in 2009). A collection of his work for young people has just been published by Oberon Books.
His plays have been performed in translation in Germany, Norway, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Holland, Sweden, South Korea and Japan.
In 2012 a large-scale Japanese version of Our Bad Magnet produced by Watanabe Entertainment and the D-Boys Stage Company played in Tokyo and Osaka; and the Millennium Centre in Cardiff toured a Welsh-language version of Decky Does a Bronco.
Douglas Maxwell currently lives in Glasgow with his wife and his two daughters.
Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk
Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain
