Douglas Maxwell (born 1974 in Girvan) is a Scottish playwright, whose work has been performed throughout Scotland, the UK and abroad.
Life & work edit
He was born to two teachers in Girvan on the Ayrshire south-west coast of Scotland. He has one sister. He came to fame when Decky Does a Bronco was performed in 2000 by the Grid Iron Theatre Company. The play won numerous awards including a Fringe First, the Stage Award for Ensemble Acting and was nominated for The Barclaycard Stage Award for Best Touring Production. Variety, a comic drama about the impact of cinema on Scotland's variety entertainers, was staged as at The Edinburgh International Festival in 2002 and was subsequently broadcast on BBC Four.[1] Maxwell was also the subject of a BBC Two Scotland Artworks documentary in 2002. In 2009 Maxwell was awarded Theatre Centre's Brian Way Award for Best New Play for The Mothership.[2]
Plays edit
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- Decky Does a Bronco (2000) Pub. Oberon (2001)
- Our Bad Magnet (2000) Pub. Oberon (2001)
- Variety (2002) Pub. Oberon (2002)
- Helmet (2002) Pub. Oberon (2002)
- Mancub (2005) Pub. Oberon (2005)
- If Destroyed True (2005)[3] Pub. Oberon (2005)
- The Backpacker Blues (2005)
- Melody (2006) Pub. Oberon (2006)
- The Mother Ship (2008) Pub. Oberon (2008)
- The Miracle Man (2010) [4]
- Too Fast (2011)
- A Respectable Widow Takes To Vulgarity (2013)
- Fever Dream: Southside (2015)
- Yer Granny (2015)
- Charlie Sonata (2015)
- Build Your Own Utopia (2020)
References edit
- ^ Farquhar, Simon (December 2009). "Film and Drama: Variety". BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Theatre Centre Archived January 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ellis, Samantha (6 April 2005). "Public Inquiry: Douglas Maxwell". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ "The Miracle Man". National Theatre of Scotland. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
External links edit
- "The writers; Douglas Maxwell". The Guardian. 6 July 2002. Retrieved 13 March 2011.