As her latest play Sweat opens at the Donmar Warehouse in London, the double-Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage reveals the painful personal encounter that led her to write it, and how her intensive research uncovered truths overlooked by mainstream media... Several years ago I received a commission from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to write a play … Continue reading ‘We all live within shouting distance of someone in crisis’: Lynn Nottage on her play Sweat
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Harriet Walter (The Nick Hern Books Anniversary Interviews)
Nick Hern Books is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2018. To mark the occasion, we've commissioned interviews with some of our leading authors and playwrights. First up, theatre journalist Al Senter talks to Dame Harriet Walter... Actor Harriet Walter has enjoyed a long and distinguished career, including playing almost all of Shakespeare's heroines on the … Continue reading Harriet Walter (The Nick Hern Books Anniversary Interviews)
Michael Bruce: How I became a theatre composer
Michael Bruce is a prolific theatre composer whose music has accompanied plays at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway. He has written scores and songs for productions as varied as The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Candide for the RSC, Strange Interlude and Man and Superman at the National Theatre, and … Continue reading Michael Bruce: How I became a theatre composer
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