RAW MATERIAL & TRAVERSE THEATRE COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH CITIZENS THEATRE
SO YOUNG
By Douglas Maxwell
WINNER: SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST AWARD 2024
WINNER: BEST NEW PLAY, CATS AWARDS 2025
WINNER: Hector MacMillan Award for Best New Scottish Play 2025
A huge hit at the Traverse Festival 2024, So Young is a multi-award winning comedy that is at once both hilarious and deeply moving.
When recently bereaved forty-something Milo invites his two oldest friends Davie and Liane over to drink wine, listen to records and reminisce about the olden days, it promises to be a great night reconnecting. There’s nothing better than catching up with pals. But there’s something else. He wants them to meet the new love of his life. Her name is Greta. And she’s twenty years old.
From Douglas Maxwell, the celebrated writer of Decky Does a Bronco and I Can Go Anywhere, So Young sees an innocuous evening slide into ruin as old friends face the challenges of middle age, growing apart and losing those close to them.
Poster design: Niall Walker, Photos Aly Wight.
“★★★★ ★
Laugh-out-loud hilarity... Raw, emotional drama”
“★★★★★
Utterly immaculately observed comedy of modern manners‘”
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Absolutely stunning! ”
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Consistently brilliant
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“★★★★
Blazing theatrical energy, and razor-sharp wit”
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An excellently acted, spirited comedy of social awkwardness”
“★★★★
Douglas Maxwell’s “perfectly-pitched” So Young is “up there with his best work””
“Balances the humour in emotionally turbulent circumstances beautifully... standout performances”
2025 PRODUCTION PHOTOS
by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.
2024 PRODUCTION PHOTOS
by Aly Wight.
TOUR HISTORY:
28 October - 8 November 2025
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
(RE-OPENING SEASON)
23-25 October 2025
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
25 July - 25 August 2024
Traverse Festival 2024
CREDITS
Written by Douglas Maxwell
Directed by Gareth Nicholls
Set & Costume Design by Kenny Miller
Lighting Design by Kate Bonney
Sound Design by Niroshini Thambar
Sound Associate Nik Paget-Tomlinson
Intimacy Director Emily Jane Boyle
Executive Producer Margaret-Anne O’Donnell
Executive Producer Gillian Garrity
Production Manager Ali Low
Company Stage Manager Katharina Siebert
Technical Stage Manager Rebecca Munro
Costume Supervisor Victoria Brown
Associate Producer Jana Robert
Marketing Manager/Designer Niall Walker
Social Media Manager Nicola Watson
Press Sharon McHendry (SM Publicity)
Bookkeeper Mark Jacques
2025 CAST:
Andy Clark Davie
Yana Harris Greta
Robert Jack Milo
Lucianne McEvoy Liane