Tag: John Osborne
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The Entertainer, Garrick Theatre
Tuesday 30th August 2016
reviewKenneth Branagh’s final show in his West End season is a revival that is slick, …
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John Osborne on playwriting
Tuesday 30th August 2016
blogQuote of the day: “I want to make people feel, to give them lessons in feeling.”
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Peter Whitebrook on John Osborne
Tuesday 5th January 2016
blogQuote of the day: “Anger was not so much a new beginning as a new movement in th…
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About The Blue Touch Paper
Sunday 8th November 2015
blogDavid Hare is one of those playwrights who talks with enormous imaginative sympa…
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The Devil Inside Him
Sunday 20th January 2013
blogText of the day: “I love to play with your snowballs.”
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Inadmissible Evidence, Donmar Warehouse
Tuesday 18th October 2011
reviewDouglas Hodge stars in John Osborne’s 1964 play, which is still disturbing in it…
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Angry Young Men
Tuesday 27th April 2010
writingThe Angry Young Men of the 1950s were more of media phenomenon than a coherent m…
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Reality Sucks (New Writing 2007)
Thursday 1st May 2008
writingThe distinguished film director David Lean once said, “Reality is a bore.”
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Let Battle Commence: New Writing in 2007
Tuesday 1st May 2007
writingIt is well know that British new writing for the theatre has been enjoying an un…
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