TravCast - The Traverse Writer's Podcast

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse. Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, interviews well known playwrights about the art of playwriting and the role it plays in their lives.

Episodes are released each month.

You can subscribe to this podcast through iTunes, or listen and download through SoundCloud. Click on the writers name to listen.

Our guest for February is Clare Duffy, author of ANA, who talks about games, about making different kinds of connections with theatre audiences through new technologies, and about her work on international collaboration ANA.

Catherine Grosvenor, author of One Day All This Will Come To Nothing and Cherry Blossom, talks about her experience with languages in the first episode of our writer's podcast for 2012.

2011 Podcasts:

December's guest is Jo Clifford, author of The Tree of Knowledge, her first play for the Traverse since 1993.  Jo talks about falling in love with characters in her work, and her experience learning and writing about David Hume.

November's episode features Linda McLean,  who joins Jennifer to talks about her fellowship at the University of Edinburgh's Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, and work with the Traverse over the years. 

In October's episode,  Alan Wilkins talks about Carthage Must be Destroyed, the role of playwriting in politics and his work with the Traverse's Young Writers Group.

In September's TravCast,  Peter Arnott joins Jennifer to talk about Genomics, playywrighting, and trusting your own amazment. 

Peter is the Traverse Theatre's playwright in Residence at the Genomics Forum in the University of Edinburgh. Read more about his residency here.

Traverse Festival 2011 Podcasts:

In the first installment of a special series of interviews recorded at the Traverse over the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Jennifer Williams talks to Lynda Radley, the author of Futureproof.

Our second TravCast features award-winning playwright Zinnie Harris, in conversation with Jennifer about her play The Wheel.

In the third week of Festival interviews,  David Greig talks about his plays The Monster in the Hall  and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

The final Festival TravCast features    Tim Crouch in conversation with Jennifer. Tim talks about the process of becomming a writer, and reveals ideas behind his Festival hit, I, Malvolio.