DOUGIE BLAXLAND
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Dougie Blaxland is a playwright whose work has been staged across the UK at venues including The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, The Ustinov Bath, The Kings Head London, The Pleasance London, The Underbelly Edinburgh, RADA, Komedia, and The Minack Theatre Cornwall.
He is the recipient of three Peggy Ramsay Grants in 2010, 2013, & 2017 to support his development as a writer and he has won other awards including the Pomegranate Theatre Best New Play 2004, The Oxford Drama Network 2006 Best New Play, and The Watershed Theatre Newbury’s Raising New Voices award 2010. In 2009 Chauntecleer and Pertelotte was nominated for Best New Show at the Brighton Festival. Recent writing credits include adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights for Butterfly Psyche which toured the South West in 2014/15 British Theatre Guide Review - here - and Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot which was commissioned by Live Wire Theatre Company and toured nationally. |
Credits
A Degree of Compulsion - (dir Hannah Price) Live Wire Theatre -The King’s Head Theatre 2006
A Public Kind of Privacy - (dir Ariella Eshed) First Draft Theatre - The White Bear/The King’s Head Theatre/The Rondo Bath 2007
If I Were A Carpenter - (dir Andrew Harries) First Draft Theatre - Pentameters Hampstead 2007
Chauntecleer and Pertelotte - (dir James Bounds) Live Wire Theatre - Old Red Lion/The Marlborough Brighton/The Underbelly Edinburgh/Komedia Bath 2008/9
That Moment - (dir Hannah Price - Reclaim Productions - The King’s Head Theatre/The Rondo Bath/The Underbelly Edinburgh 2009/10
Never Any Fruit - (dir Kate McGregor) - Blossom Tree Productions - The Watershed Newbury The Pleasance London 2010
Machamlear - (dir Heidi Vaughan) - Theatre Royal Bath Production - The Egg Theatre 2011
Biggles Flies A Fokker Home - (dir Amy Tobias) - Live Wire Theatre - The Cotswold Playhouse/The Rondo Bath 2012
Bursary Boy - (dir Ian McGlynn) - Provocation Theatre - Bike Shed Exeter/ Queen’s Theatre Barnstaple 2012
Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights - adaptations for The Bronte Season - (dir Jazz Hazelwood and Ian McGlynn) - Butterfly Psyche - SW Tour - 2013/2014
The King of The Choughs - (dir Dean Nolan) - Trebiggan Productions - The Minack Theatre Cornwall 2014
Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot* - (dir Shane Morgan) - Live Wire Theatre - 2015.
A Public Kind of Privacy - (dir Ariella Eshed) First Draft Theatre - The White Bear/The King’s Head Theatre/The Rondo Bath 2007
If I Were A Carpenter - (dir Andrew Harries) First Draft Theatre - Pentameters Hampstead 2007
Chauntecleer and Pertelotte - (dir James Bounds) Live Wire Theatre - Old Red Lion/The Marlborough Brighton/The Underbelly Edinburgh/Komedia Bath 2008/9
That Moment - (dir Hannah Price - Reclaim Productions - The King’s Head Theatre/The Rondo Bath/The Underbelly Edinburgh 2009/10
Never Any Fruit - (dir Kate McGregor) - Blossom Tree Productions - The Watershed Newbury The Pleasance London 2010
Machamlear - (dir Heidi Vaughan) - Theatre Royal Bath Production - The Egg Theatre 2011
Biggles Flies A Fokker Home - (dir Amy Tobias) - Live Wire Theatre - The Cotswold Playhouse/The Rondo Bath 2012
Bursary Boy - (dir Ian McGlynn) - Provocation Theatre - Bike Shed Exeter/ Queen’s Theatre Barnstaple 2012
Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights - adaptations for The Bronte Season - (dir Jazz Hazelwood and Ian McGlynn) - Butterfly Psyche - SW Tour - 2013/2014
The King of The Choughs - (dir Dean Nolan) - Trebiggan Productions - The Minack Theatre Cornwall 2014
Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot* - (dir Shane Morgan) - Live Wire Theatre - 2015.
reviews
The Long Walk Back
British Theatre Guide
"Dougie Blaxland has written a somewhat impressionistic but wholly convincing portrait"
The Guardian
“The play deserves to be a great success”
The Telegraph
"powerful and at times very moving"
British Theatre Guide
"Dougie Blaxland has written a somewhat impressionistic but wholly convincing portrait"
The Guardian
“The play deserves to be a great success”
The Telegraph
"powerful and at times very moving"
awards and nominations
He is the recipient of three Peggy Ramsay Grants in 2010, 2013, & 2017 to support his development as a writer and he has won other awards including the Pomegranate Theatre Best New Play 2004, The Oxford Drama Network 2006 Best New Play, The Watershed Theatre Newbury’s Raising New Voices award 2010, and the Salford Star Best Play Award for his play, Getting The Third Degree. In 2009 Chauntecleer and Pertelotte was nominated for Best New Show at the Brighton Festival.
The Long Walk Back
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Based on real live events, The Long Walk Back tells the epic story of an international sporting star's catastrophic fall from grace. England cricketing all-rounder Chris Lewis enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame and fortune in the 1990s. Playing 85 Tests and One Day Internationals for England he seemed on the verge of greatness when he was named England's International Cricketer of The Year in 1994. Within months of his cricketing career ending, however, his life lay in ruins when he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for smuggling cocaine into the UK.
Beginning with his arrest at Gatwick Airport in 2008 and an attempted suicide on his first night in custody, The Long Walk Back charts the extraordinary journey that took Lewis from the brink of despair to a profound moral awakening.
Beginning with his arrest at Gatwick Airport in 2008 and an attempted suicide on his first night in custody, The Long Walk Back charts the extraordinary journey that took Lewis from the brink of despair to a profound moral awakening.
When The Eye Has Gone
Dougie’s play based on the life of the legendary England cricketer Colin Milburn enjoyed a critically acclaimed tour of the UK in 2016/17.
Set in the bar of The North Briton pub in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, When The Eye Has Gone tells the all too brief life of Colin ‘Ollie’ Milburn - the cricketing legend who was one of England’s most unlikely sporting heroes.
The action takes place on the 28th February 1990 during Milburn’s final cabaret performance as “Jolly Ollie”, the character he had developed to conceal his insecurities and suffering.
Set in the bar of The North Briton pub in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, When The Eye Has Gone tells the all too brief life of Colin ‘Ollie’ Milburn - the cricketing legend who was one of England’s most unlikely sporting heroes.
The action takes place on the 28th February 1990 during Milburn’s final cabaret performance as “Jolly Ollie”, the character he had developed to conceal his insecurities and suffering.
