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'School for Scandal'  Read Douglas Maxwell's interview with The List

 

'On a Promise'  Mark Fisher also interviews Douglas Maxwell for Scotland on Sunday

 

Maggie Brodie thought she'd left teaching behind her.  Retired twice, once with a dishonourable discharge, she's been drafted back for a day's cover at her local primary school in London.  It's going to be a tough shift.  A day of battles with her thirst for booze; with the soft soap headmaster and lastly with Rosie. 

 

Rosie is six and a new intake.  Tough enough.  But made tougher by the fact that Rosie is from Somalia and refusing to speak.  She will not speak. But to Maggie's surprise silent Rosie stirs something in her long forgotten.  Something about her past, her family, her ego.  There's a connection here that Maggie can't quite get a grip on.  In some political bargain the school are allowing community leaders into the classroom today to help with Rosie's treatment.  They believe her silence comes from the fact that she is a witch.  Well, they're wrong. And Maggie is forced to take action. Drastic action.

 

Douglas Maxwell’s tense new thriller combines a specially composed soundtrack and integrated projection to make Promises Promises an unmissable theatrical event.

 

Watch the Trailer below: