DOUGIE BLAXLAND
RECENT DOUBLE NOMINATION for Dougie Blaxland's work.
The National Campaign for the Arts has shortlisted N17 for the Best Arts Project 2021.
UNKNOWN the audio play that Dougie wrote for The Big Issue is listed as
one of The Guardian's favourite plays of 2020.
one of The Guardian's favourite plays of 2020.
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Dougie Blaxland is a playwright whose work has been staged across the UK at venues including The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, Nottingham Playhouse, The Belgrade Theatre Coventry, The Minack Theatre Cornwall and The Greenwich Theatre London.
Most recently N17 - a radio programme that he wrote for The Windrush Festival - was Shortlisted for Best Arts Project by The National Campaign for the Arts 2021. In addition, Unknown - an audio play about homelessness commissioned by The Big Issue - was highlighted by The Guardian as one of their readers’ ‘favourite plays of 2020’. The recipient of three Peggy Ramsay Grants, Dougie won the Raising New Voices Award 2010 for Never Any Fruit - published by Stagescripts Other recent writing credits include: When The Eye Has Gone - National Tour 2016/17 - National Tour 2016/17 (see Guardian Review below) The Long Walk Back - National Tour 2019 - (see Guardian Review below) Getting The Third Degree - National Tour & Winner of the Salford Star Best Play of the Year Award 2019 - (see The Telegraph Review below) Dougie’s other nominations and awards include: Winner of Best New Play for M oving in and Taking Over - The Pomegranate Theatre 2004 - published by Stagescripts (https://shop.stagescripts.com/categories/plays/full-length/comedic-drama /moving-in-and-taking-over.html) WinnerofBestNewPlayforADegreeofCompulsion- OxfordDrama Network 2007 Nominated for Best New Play for Chauntecleer and Pertelotte - Brighton Festival 2009 Shortlisted for Never Any Fruit (revisited)for WordPlay 2020 |
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"
When The Eye Has Gone
The Guardian
The Third Degree
Telegraph
awards and nominations
Dougie’s other nominations and awards include:
- Winner of Best New Play for Moving in and Taking Over - The Pomegranate Theatre 2004 - published by Stagescripts
- Winner of Best New Play for A Degree of Compulsion- Oxford Drama Network 2007
- Nominated for Best New Play for Chauntecleer and Pertelotte - Brighton Festival 2009
- Shortlisted for Never Any Fruit (revisited)for WordPlay 2020
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.
