Contemporary Dramatists

ALISTAIR MCDOWALL ''uses language with virtuosity. He folds it, unfolds it, dirties it, mishandles it, and in doing so, he celebrates it...It is as a poet that he uses writing to honour its promises: to excite the imagination, to stimulate play, to provoke staging and to elevate the theatre.'' Le Monde

''McDowall''s plays are portals to the extraordinary.'' Guardian

X: ''McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss … a play that will gnaw away at you.''
The Stage

The Glow: ''A mind-bending, ambitious play, which attempts impossible things, demonstrating the power of theatre to bridge the gap between imagination and reality.''
Exeunt

all of it: ''Genius...an epic of inner life...McDowall brilliantly captures how febrile consciousness scribbles around our spoken half-truths.''
Guardian

Northleigh, 1940: ''Quietly devastating...[McDowall] is extraordinary at channelling his disturbing, poetic vision of the characters'' hidden worlds.''
The Times

Zero for the Young Dudes! A play for youth groups commissioned by the National Theatre and performed around the country in 2017.