Tag: playwriting
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A Small Family Business, National Theatre
Tuesday 8th April 2014
reviewAlan Ayckbourn’s over-hyped 1987 play about small-business cheats is fun, but su…
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Another Country, Trafalgar Studios
Thursday 3rd April 2014
reviewJulian Mitchell’s 1981 masterpiece storms into the West End in an engrossing and…
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Dark Vanilla Jungle, Soho Theatre
Wednesday 26th March 2014
reviewPhilip Ridley’s Edinburgh hit comes south trailing clouds of exquisitely painful…
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Ray Cooney on writing
Tuesday 25th March 2014
blogQuote of the day: “I segued into writing when I was in a play at the Whitehall t…
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David Edgar on new writing
Saturday 8th February 2014
blogQuote of the day: “Playwrights and the theatres that produce them should defend …
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Can the Brits do better? (New Writing 2013)
Saturday 1st February 2014
writingIn his speech to the Labour Party conference in September 2013, the leader Ed Mi…
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Linda Bassett on 1970s new writing
Saturday 1st February 2014
blogQuote of the day: “Lots of actors long to devise their own work, and I loved it …
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Inspiring playwrights
Tuesday 8th October 2013
blogSymposium of the week: On Sunday 13 October the Lakeside Theatre Colchester host…
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Hostile to new writing?
Thursday 19th September 2013
blogProvocation of the day: Playwright David Edgar attacks the ideological hostility…
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