Connections with the Audience: Writing for a Scottish Theatre

Abstract

Peter Arnott is a young playwright whose relatively brief working career has spanned a wide spectrum not only of Scottish theatrical outlets, but of the styles and approaches open to a politically committed writer in a community which has consistently and vehemently rejected Thatcherism, yet which has to live within its political if not its cultural boundaries. Here, Peter Arnott talks with Greg Giesekam, of the Department of Theatre Studies in the University of Glasgow, about the development of his own thinking, and its relationship to his working methods and their theatrical applications.