Michael Daviot

 

                                   FILM AND T.V. PROJECTS

                                   (screenplays, scenarios etc.)

 

The Wendigo (screenplay, adapted from the story by Algernon Blackwood)

 

Schopenhauer's Smile (short film screenplay, adapted from Beside a Dead Man

by Guy de Maupassant)

 

The Walrus and the Carpenter (TV or film treatment of the story of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle)

 

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (completely faithful screenplay adaptation, unfolding exactly as RLS wrote it and set in Edinburgh, in period) 

 

John Silence, Psychic Detective (six part mini-series, based on the tales by Blackwood)

 

 

                                               PLAYS

 

Toshie (a solo show about Charles Rennie Mackintosh)

 

Schopenhauer's Smile (see above)

 

Children of the Night (Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and the birth of Dracula)

 

Naked Burroughs (a solo show about William Burroughs)

 

The Devil"s Hour (a solo show about His Satanic Majesty)

 

A Twisted Thistle (riots, betrayal and a roasting, Edinburgh 1707)

 

 

                                              BOOKS

 

Hiddon Ghosts (novel, a multi-generational ghost story)

 

Flump and Wallow and the Hurr-de-hurrs (a children's story)