Jack Thorne, author of The Motive and The Cue, now playing at the National Theatre, describes his new play as a love letter to the BBC. The BBC’s mission is to inform, educate and entertain everybody, ...
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In the 1980s, BBC Radio 3 commissioned a whole series of monologues from the British playwright Peter Barnes (1931-2004), author of The Ruling Classes (1968, later filmed with Peter O’Toole) and Leona ...
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Alan Bennett is on record as saying to Nicholas Hytner, who directed the premiere at the National Theatre in 1991 that he thought The Madness of George III unstageable. The text, with its numerous sho ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Leopoldstadt at Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 Leopoldstadt, an intimate drama with an epic sweep, is an act of remembrance for people long forgotten. It is not biographical; but ...
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