TravCast Iain Finlay MacLeod

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 Iain Finlay MacLeod. Iain Finlay MacLeod is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist based on the Isle of Lewis. Alongside his work as a writer he also works as a director on both single and multi-camera projects. Iain’s original stage plays include Somersaults (NTS), The Bends (Playwrights Studio/RSAMD), The Pearlfisher, I was a Beautiful Day, Homers and Alexander Salamander or The Story of a Teenage Pyromaniac, all for the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. He also adapted David Lescot’s play Une Homme en Faillte as Broke for the Traverse. I addition, Iain Finlay has written Atman and Salvage for Tosg Theatre and the libretto for The Silver Bough which was produced by Youth Music Theatre UK. Iain also collaborated on the multimedia opera St Kilda which was performed in English, French and Gaelic at the Edinburgh International Festival 2009. The production, for which Iain wrote the libretto and wrote and directed the filmed elements was originally performed in 2007 in six European venues simultaneously, which were linked by live satellite connection with St Kilda. Iain has also written extensively for radio including The Summer Walking which was adapted from his play The Pearl Fisher, White Nights and Raven Black both adapted from the novels of Anne Cleaves, The Kitchen Child, adapted from Angela Carter’s short story, Frozen and 15 Minutes to Change the World all for BBC Radio 4. He is also the author of The Treasure of Puymule for Catherine Bailey Productions. Iain was a co-writer of the Gaelic-language film Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle, which was produced by Chris Young at Young Films and is the author of three Gaelic-language novels, The Klondykers, Am Bounty and Empire all of which are published by Gaelic Books Council. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain