TravCast - Mark Thomas - Cuckooed

Traverse Theatre

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatre makers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Emma speaks to Mark Thomas. Mark is a writer, performer, journalist and political campaigner who has been on stage, screen and radio for nearly 30 years, when he started on London’s alternative comedy scene. This August, Mark is bringing his latest show, Cuckooed to the Traverse Festival. He has most recently completed 100 Acts of Minor Dissent. In 2012, Mark performed his first ever theatre piece at the Traverse, Bravo Figaro, a touching and poignant tale first commissioned by the Royal Opera House about his opera-loving father which sold out its entire run and won Mark a Herald Angel award, a Scotsman Fringe First, and was recently broadcast on Radio 4. This show is set to tour Australia and New Zealand in 2015. He is the author of several books and his TV series, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product ran for six series. His radio show the Manifesto is on-going. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain