Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison grew up in striking distance from Haworth, the village once home to the Brontë family, and describes his latest play for Northern Broadsides, We are Three Sisters, as 'a kind of homecoming'. Here he explains the enjoyment of dramatising the Brontë's lives, lifting the gloom and misery so often … Continue reading WE ARE THREE SISTERS: with author Blake Morrison
Month: September 2011
Spotlight: Headlong’s DECADE
As Decade, Headlong’s imaginative investigation of 9/11 and its legacy, opens in London, NHB Commissioning Editor Matt Applewhite considers a play publisher’s role in documenting the theatre of our times – and why it’s worth pulling out all the stops to do so. When, in 2009, Caryl Churchill wrote Seven Jewish Children, her short, sharp … Continue reading Spotlight: Headlong’s DECADE
The Prompt Book 