Douglas Maxwell
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Douglas Maxwell (born Girvan, 1974) is an award-winning Scottish playwright, whose work has been performed throughout Scotland, the UK and abroad.
Both parents teachers, he was born 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 Gridiron 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 BBC4.[1] Maxwell was also the subject of a BBC2 Scotland Artworks documentary in 2002.
[edit] Plays
- 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)[2] Pub. Oberon (2005)
- The Backpacker Blues (2005)
- Melody (2006) Pub. Oberon (2006)
- The Mother Ship (2008) Pub. Oberon (2008)
[edit] References
- ^ Farquhar, Simon (December 2009). "Film and Drama: Variety". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/variety.shtml. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Ellis, Samantha (6 April 2005). "Public Inquiry: Douglas Maxwell". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/apr/06/guardiansocietysupplement?INTCMP=SRCH. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
[edit] External links
- "The writers; Douglas Maxwell". The Guardian. 6 July 2002. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2002/jul/06/whoswhoinbritishtheatre.features21?INTCMP=SRCH. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
