TravCast - Iain Heggie

Traverse Theatre

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Directors, Hamish Pirie and Emma Callander interview well known playwrights whose work features in the programme at the Traverse. In this episode and his final TravCast, Hamish speaks to Iain Heggie, writer of 'The Queen Of Lucky People' and the last in our A Play, A Pie and A Pint series. Glasgow born and based, Iain Heggie is a playwright and director. His many plays include 'Wholly Healthy Glasgow', 'American Bagpipes', 'Sauchiehall Street', 'Experienced Woman Gives Advice', 'King Of Scotland' and 'Wiping My Mother’s Arse'. He wrote 'Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer' which started life at Òran Mór and was a huge hit at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. He has just completed 'Tragic', a one man version of the Hamlet story for Subway Theatre and the first Scottish version of Gorky’s masterpiece 'Lower Depths' for National Theatre of Scotland and his latest work is the James 6th monologue for NTS's 'Dear Scotland' at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.