Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors
Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.
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Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors
Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.
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Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors

Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors

Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors

Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors

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Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333740019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 06/08/2000
Edition description: 2000
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Howard Brenton, Bloody Poetry (1984-8); M.Stafford-Clark Alan Bennett, The Madness of George III (1991); N.Hytner David Edgar, Pentecost (1994); M.Attenborough David Hare, Amy's View (1997); R.Eyre Michael Frayn, Copenhagen (1998); M.Blakemore Appendix I: Howard Brenton's Programme Note for '3 Plays for Utopia: A Howard Brenton Season' (1998) Appendix II: David Hare's Programme Note to Shaw's Heartbreak House (1997) Bibliography Index
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