National Theatre of Scotland 2013

It's official. The new season, or seasons, of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2013 includes Dragon by Vox Motus and myself. I'm very excited to be part of such a great programme.

And now I should stop reading press releases and get back to writing...

New website

Hurrah! My brilliant pal Iain Craig has re-designed and updated my website. It has all my info plus extracts from my radio and pics from my plays. I'm very pleased with it. Hope you enjoy. Click here to see it.

Interview - writing for radio.

This is an interview I did recently for the nice people at the Strictly Writing Blog about writing for radio.

Titus in Austria

Before he arrives in Scotland, Titus is making a brief detour to Austria at the Szene Bunte Wahne. If you happen to be around then go and say yo.

What's new?

I'm currently in the middle of writing Dragon. This is the next play from those theatre wizards at Vox Motus. I can't tell you too much about it at the moment (it's top secret) but needless to say there will be flying, fire and other things that make your eyes go pop. The show will open in October 2013.

As well as this I'm about to embark on a new project with Red Note Ensemble entitled End of The World (for one night only). Performed on the last day of the Mayan Calendar (21st December 2012), it will have music by Gareth Williams, John Harris, Colin Broom, Hanna Tuulikki and Ludwig van Beethoven and words by me. I hope it will be unmissable...

Titus in Scotland

(Joseph Arkley as Titus).

Yes it's not long now until Titus returns to Scotland.

We will be performing at the Macrobert in Stirling on Friday 5th October at 13:00 and 19:00. The performances are part of THAT Festival. There's plenty of other great shows to see, so if you fancy it please come along for the whole weekend.

We'll be happy to see you.

Here are what the critics said about Titus when we were at the Imaginate Festival in May 2012

'... a compelling piece of theatre; a portrait if small-town England that stings with telling detail, and nonetheless contains a dazzling streak of magic realism - ★★★★' SCOTSMAN

'It's a beautifully structured, evocatively phrased monologue that is buoyantly, engagingly inhabited by Joseph Arkley - ★★★★' HERALD

'Theatre at its best - ★★★★★' edinburghguide.com

Welcome

Hello.

I'm a playwright. I live in Glasgow.

This is my new blog.

Here I'll be updating what I'm up to and writing about general playwriting things.

For more info check out my website www.oliveremanuel.com

I hope you enjoy.

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