best team ever

Based on an original idea by Glyn Maxwell, Best Day Ever was developed by Glyn and Hannah Maxwell - a classic uncle-niece creative collaboration.

GLYN MAXWELL

Glyn Maxwell is a poet and playwright who’s been making up stupid games since his year off.

His volumes of poetry include The Breakage, Hide Now, and Pluto, all of which were shortlisted for either the Forward or T. S. Eliot Prizes, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His Selected Poems, One Thousand Nights and Counting, was published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2011. He has a long association with Derek Walcott, who taught him in Boston in the late 1980s, and whose Selected Poems he edited in 2014.

On Poetry, a guidebook for the general reader, was published by Oberon in 2012. The Spectator called it ‘a modern classic’ and The Guardian’s Adam Newey described it as ‘the best book about poetry I’ve ever read.’ Drinks With Dead Poets, which is both an expansion of On Poetry and a novel in itself, will be published by Oberon in September 2016.

Many of Maxwell’s plays have been staged in London and New York, including Liberty at Shakespeare’s Globe, and at the Almeida, Arcola, RADA and Southwark Playhouse. For the Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre in Chester, the UK’s premier outdoor venue outside of London, he has adapted Cyrano De Bergerac and Wind in the Willows.

HANNAH MAXWELL

Hannah Maxwell is a writer and performer who is overly pushy with organised fun. 

In 2017 she began development of her solo performance work, I, AmDram, as part of the Starting Blocks Artist Development Programme at Camden People's Theatre. The show premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019 with The Pleasance (★★★★★ To Do List, ★★★★ The Scotsman, ★★★★ The List), and has since toured to the Adelaide Festival 2020 (★★★★★ The Advertiser). The playtext of I, AmDram was published by Oberon Books in 2019, and an article on the story behind the show appeared in the Guardian in 2018.

She has worked with a variety of artists and companies, including international lesbian performance company Split Britches, with whom she cowrote Unexploded Ordnances (La Mama NYC & The Barbican, 2018), and Hunt & Darton on their UK tour of Radio Local.

CREDITS

Project Assistant Eliza Cass

Theme Juan Luis Cassanellas Donoso

Editing by Benedict Hudson / Alice Roots

Logo design Daisy King

Photography Anna Leader

Sound recording Tom Wilson, Elliott Roberts