I Can Go Anywhere
By (Author) Douglas Maxwell
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
7th January 2020
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary plays / drama
Theatre studies
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics
Migration, immigration and emigration
822.92
Paperback
64
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
80g
Anyone can learn maps and battles. Geezer, I feel it! I live it! Im giving everything to this beautiful, wild, absolutely pure British thing. Like, do you know what it took to get here, man
Stevie is a disillusioned academic who once wrote an unfashionable book on youth movements in Britain, now struggling to cope after a painful break-up.
His misery is interrupted by Jimmy who lands unexpectedly on his doorstep beaming with excitement. Jimmy is 100% Mod: oversized military parka, fitted Italian suit, dessy boots, pork pie hat. The full package.
Jimmy is seeking asylum in the UK. With just a few days before the substantive interview thats going to decide his fate, the stakes are high. So he came up with a brilliant plan. A plan thats going to work against all odds. It has to work. He cant go back. And Stevie has an important part to play.
Douglas Maxwell has been one of the most popular and produced playwrights in Scotland since his debut in 2000. In 2015 his plays included Yer Granny (a version of Roberto Cossas La Nona) for the National Theatre of Scotland and Fever Dream: Southside for The Citizens, Glasgow. They were seen collectively by over 24,000 people.
His many other plays include Decky Does a Bronco, Mancub, Promises Promises (staged in New York as The Promise) and A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity.
His plays have been performed in translation in Germany, Norway, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Holland, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Wales, Japan, France and South Korea, where his debut play Our Bad Magnet ran for over ten years.