Name Douglas Maxwell Role Playwright | Plays The Promise | |
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Books Our bad magnet, Decky does a bronco, Mancub, If Destroyed True, Too Fast | ||
Douglas maxwell scottish theatre archive interview
Douglas Maxwell (born 1974 in Girvan) is an award-winning Scottish playwright, whose work has been performed throughout Scotland, the UK and abroad.
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- Douglas maxwell scottish theatre archive interview
- Smalltown written by douglas maxwell d c jackson and johnny mcknight
- Life work
- Plays
- References
Smalltown written by douglas maxwell d c jackson and johnny mcknight
Life & work
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. 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.