DC Jackson

Interview: DC Jackson - playwright

Retelling of The Marriage of Figaro set in world of banking comes to Lyceum

27 Feb 2012

I love the original play, which I think it’s fair to say is less well known than the opera. So I’ve always thought that’s a shame. It’s genuinely hilarious with strikingly modern characters and jokes. It’s got all the cross-dressing and duplicity and…

Smalltown collects work by Douglas Maxwell, DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight

Random Accomplice’s trio of Ayrshire-set plays

7 Mar 2011

Random Accomplice’s trio of Ayrshire-set plays by three of Scotland’s leading talents seems intended as an affectionate parody of the portmanteau horror films popularised by Amicus in the 1960s. The individual segments do, however, offer a snapshot of…

Random Accomplice's Smalltown offers three plays by leading Scottish playwrights

New works by Douglas Maxwell, DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight

26 Jan 2011

Typical. You wait ages for a great new play to arrive and then three come along at once. As luck would have it the trio of plays that make up Random Accomplice’s latest production, Smalltown, have been crafted by three of Scotland’s leading young…

The Hot 100 2010 - Mark Millar, Kevin Bridges and Alasdair Gray take top 3 spots

Our annual chart of the people from Scotland being interesting, successful and creative

16 Dec 2010

The Hot 100 is a list of Scots who’ve made a sizeable creative splash in 2010. It includes musicians, artists, writers, actors, fashion designers, technological innovators, shop owners, festival directors, record label heads and one mad cyclist.

My Romantic History

Inventive, funny observations of contemporary relationships

8 Aug 2010

In DC Jackson’s new play we meet two pretty ordinary West of Scotland thirtysomethings who, having drifted from a drunken sexual contretemps after an office night out into a slightly uncertain relationship, are thrown back into reflection upon their…

The Ducky

30 Apr 2009

‘Michelle is one of those people who doesn’t seem to have much luck in life,’ says Hannah Donaldson. ‘As soon as she gets over one obstacle, another one comes along and smacks her in the face.’ It’s fair to say that on that front, Donaldson and her…

The Hot 100 2008

11 Dec 2008

It’s been a helluva year. 2008 has been a time of significant global change, socially, politically and culturally, with Scotland no exception. So here, for your delectation, is The List’s pick of the 100 people, places and things that rocked our world…