TravCast - Iain Finlay Macleod - Devil Masters Special

Traverse Theatre

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Emma speaks to Iain Finlay Macleod, writer of the current Traverse Theatre Company production 'The Devil Masters'. Iain Finlay has had over fifty dramatic works produced for radio, theatre, television and film. His work has been shown in a number of countries such as the US, Germany and France. Plays for the Traverse Theatre include The Pearlfisher, I was a Beautiful Day, Homers and Broke (A version of the French play, Un homme en Faillite). Other plays include Somersaults for the National Theatre of Scotland and St. Kilda - The Opera which was performed in five European countries simultaneously in four languages. Iain Finlay is currently Associate Artist (Gaelic) at the National Theatre of Scotland. He was awarded the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2009. He was Associate Playwright for two years (2007-2009) with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and Writer-in-Residence at Sabhal Mor Ostaig for two years. The play The Devil Masters was written when he was the IASH Edinburgh University/Traverse Theatre Fellow in 2013, based at the Institute of Advanced Studies for the Humanities at Edinburgh University. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain