Traverse Theatre

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 Rob Drummond. Rob is a writer, performer and director from Glasgow. His theatre credits include Sixteen (Arches Theatre Festival), Hunter (National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly, directed by John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett), Post Show (Arches Live!) Allotment (Govan Shopping Centre, NTS new work), Mr Write (Tron Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland), Top Table (Oran Mor). In 2011 Rob wrote, performed and directed his critically acclaimed show Rob Drummond: Wrestling (The Arches, winner of a Vital Spark Award) for which he trained as a professional wrestler. His dark comedy Top Table appeared at Oran Mor last year. Bullet Catch enjoyed critical acclaim and a sold out run as part of the Traverse Theatre’s Festival 2012 programme

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

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 David Ireland. David trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He has worked as an actor with many theatre companies across the UK including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, Glasgow Citizens Theatre and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

David's first play WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY was produced at Oran Mor in Glasgow in May 2009 and transferred to the Belfast Festival. This was followed by ARGUMENTS FOR TERRORISM (Oran Mor), EVERYTHING BETWEEN US (Tinderbox Theatre Company/Solas Nua), THE END OF HOPE THE END OF DESIRE (Oran Mor), HALF A GLASS OF WATER (Abbey Theatre) and YES, SO I SAID YES (Ransom Productions). He has also taken part in Paines Plough's COME TO WHERE I'M FROM.

David is currently working on new plays for Tinderbox Theatre Company, the Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre, Belfast and is adapting his play WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY into a television series for the BBC.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

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 Caroline Horton. Caroline is a writer and performer based in Birmingham. She is the author and creator and author of You’re Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy and Mess. Caroline is an artistic associate at The Bush Theatre and a member of The Optimists network of young theatre makers in the Midlands. She trained with Philippe Gaulier in Paris from 2005 to 2007, after studying at Cambridge University. In 2010 she won the Best Solo Performer Award for her performance of You’re Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

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 Gary McNair. Gary is a writer, performer and director based in Glasgow. His first performance for a Play, a Pie and a Pint – a one man show about the failings of our financial system called Crunch – went on to achieve critical acclaim at the Forest Fringe during Edinburgh’s Festivals in 2011.

Gary was one of the artistic collaborators on The Jean Jacques Rousseau Show, a Play a Pie and a Pint’s 250th production. Other work include: Count Me In (National Theatre of Scotland) and How Soon Is Nigh? (The Arches and the Traverse). His latest play Born to Run features in this year's Traverse Festival 2012 programme.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

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 Sue Glover. Sue was born in Edinburgh and went to school and university there. She now lives further North in the fishing village of Anstruther, within sight of the sea, and close to the beach which was the setting for her first theatre play (The Seal Wife). She writes for television and radio as well as theatre. Her favourite medium is the one she is writing for at the time.

Several of her plays have been translated and produced abroad, but she regards Guy Pierre Couleau's translations and productions of Asservies and La Chaise de Paille as highlights of her theatre experience. (Her other plays include The Bubble Boy, The Seal Wife, Artist Unknown, Sacred Hearts, Shetland Saga.) Sue Glover's plays have been produced worldwide to critical acclaim. Bondagers, about the women who worked on the Border farms, was hailed as a modern Scottish classic, and included in Cannongate's Twentieth Century Scottish Drama. This episode contains some strong language.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

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 Kieran Hurley. Kieran is a writer, performer, and theatre maker based in Glasgow. His work is always collaborative, even when it looks like a solo show. Writing credits include Allotment (National Theatre of Scotland), St. Anthony’s (gHost City, Edinburgh Fringe), Chalk Farm (with Julia Taudevin, Tron, Mayfesto), The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show (co-writer, Oran Mor). His monologue piece Hitch, created in collaboration with pop band Over The Wall, was nominated for a Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) for Best New Play in 2010 and has played throughout the U.K. and internationally and continues to tour in 2012 produced by Trigger (England tour) and the Arches, Glasgow (Scotland tour). As a recipient of the Arches Platform 18 Award he presented a new work, BEATS, with Johnny Whoop, which received rave reviews from The Scotsman (4 stars, Performance of the Week), Herald (4 stars) and The Guardian (4 stars) and has been nominated for two awards at the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) 2012 (Best New Play, and Best use of Music and Sound). Kieran is an associated artist with Forest Fringe, and is currently a supported artist with the National Theatre of Scotland.

This is a very special episode as it is the first with Hamish at the helm. With that in mind, here is a short introduction to our new presenter.

Hamish is Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre. He trained as theatre director through residencies at Paines Plough and the Donmar Warehouse. He was Staff Director on Blackwatch (National Theatre of Scotland) and UK Associate Director on Shrek The Muscical (Dury Lane). His work as a director includes: Salt Root and Roe, by Tim Price (Donmar Trafalgar Season); Extreme Rambling by Mark Thomas (Tricycle and Tour); Purgatory by Stephen Berkoff (Arcola); His Ghostly Heart by Ben Schiffer (Bush Theatre); Stacy by Jack Thorne (Trafalgar Studios & Arcola Theatre); Pennies by Mike Bartlett and Cricket Bats Unite by Tim Price/Time Cats (Latitiude/Nabokov). For Paines Plough: Paperhouse by Jack Thorne (co-produced with Later); London Pidgeons by Robin French (co-produced by Flight5065) and Whispers of Britain (co-produced by Menier Chocolate Factory). ). Hamish will direct Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! as part of the Traverse 2012 Festival Programme.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode Jennifer speaks to Tim Price. Tim is a Welsh television writer and playwright.

His play For Once is just about to open (in a few minutes) at the Traverse and his new verbatim play DEMOS will debut on the 24th of April as the culmination of the Traverse’s Write Here New Writing Festival.

Other stage credits include The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Salt, Root and Roe - nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre; Out Generation; Café Cariad; From The Hip; The Whole Truth and many other plays. His play Will and George was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award, 2011. Television credits include: Y Pris (The Cockle Farmer) (nominated for Best Screenwriter at Bafta Cymru 2008, nominated Best Drama for Prix Europa 2008, and won Best Drama award at the Celtic Film and TV Festival 2009); The New Worst Witch, Herman and Sherman, Sold!, River City, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Doctors, Holby City, Casualty and Eastenders.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode Jennifer speaks to Lewis Hetherington.

Lewis is an associate artist of Analogue, having co-written and performed in their first two shows; ‘Mile End’ and ‘Beachy Head’. Lewis has co-written their third show ‘2401 Objects’ which is a co-production with the Oldenburg Staatstheater, Germany. He is an associate artist with Imaginate, which has afforded him the chance to undertake research with Sense Scotland, exploring the creative possibilities of making theatre with and for young deaf blind adults.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, interviews well known about the art of playwriting, and the role it plays in their lives.

In this episode Jennifer speaks to Clare Duffy.

Clare is a playwright, director and dramaturg in the final year of her doctoral research as practice in playwriting at Glasgow University. She co-founded Unlimited Theatre in 1997 and continues to write and create new work as a co-director, working nationally and internationally across different media. Unlimited Theatre moved into the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2012. Clare co-wrote ANA with Québec writer Pierre Yves Lemieux, a bi-lingual play for Stellar Quines Theatre Company & Imago Theatre in association with the Traverse Theatre. ANA will have its Scottish premiere at the Traverse on 2 March 2012.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode Jennifer speaks to Catherine Grosvenor, an Edinburgh-based playwright and translator. Her plays include One Day All This Will Come to Nothing and Cherry Blossom for the Traverse and Gabriel for Oran Mor's "A Play, A Pie and A Pint" programme. She has also translated a number of plays from Polish, including This Pole Walks into a Bar...for the Royal Court and Our Class for the National Theatre and had a translation of The Overcoat on in the Festival. She works with our Head of Learning, Noelle O’Donoghue, on the Traverse’s Class Act programme and teaches the Traverse’s writing group for 14-17 year olds called Scribble.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain