Playwriting Then and Now

Update: 2018-12-10

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Join renowned playwrights Alecky Blythe (London Road, Little Revolution), Howard Brenton (Pravda, Never So Good), Natasha Gordon (Nine Night), and Conor McPherson (The Weir, Girl from the North Country) and publisher Nick Hern, to explore how playwriting has – and hasn’t – changed over the past 30 years. Chaired by Emily McLaughlin (Head of New Work, National Theatre).

What new trends and themes have emerged in the last three decades? What changes have occurred in the way plays reach the stage? And where might playwriting, and theatre, go in the future?

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Michael Billington on Stage

2020-03-0649:42

Director Katy Rudd and Adapter Joel Horwood on The Ocean at the End of the Lane

2020-02-2829:17

Writer Inua Ellams and Director Nadia Fall on Three Sisters

2020-02-2127:26

Neil Gaiman on The Ocean at the End of the Lane

2020-02-0730:20

Actors Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings on Hansard

2020-01-3138:21

Director Rufus Norris and Adapter Helen Edmundson on Small Island

2020-01-1728:50

A Conversation with Peter Brook

2020-01-1028:50

Director Simon Godwin and Writer Simon Woods on Hansard

2019-12-2022:29

Creating and Performing Peter Gynt (Part Two): David Hare and Jonathan Kent

2019-12-1329:46

Creating and Performing Peter Gynt (Part One): James McArdle

2019-12-1332:01

Polly Findlay on Rutherford and Son

2019-12-1331:29

Roger Allam on Rutherford and Son

2019-12-0236:51

Director Pam MacKinnon and Writer Bruce Norris on Downstate

2019-04-0332:22

Writer David Hare on I'm Not Running

2019-01-1630:37

Director Rachel Chavkin and Writer Anaïs Mitchell on Hadestown

2019-01-1629:40

Playwriting Then and Now

2018-12-1025:12

The Influence of Lecoq on UK Theatre

2018-12-1001:00:16

Dramatic Exchanges: the Lives and Letters of the NT

2018-12-1041:09

Three Perspectives on Dying

2018-12-0341:22

Patrick Marber on Exit the King

2018-12-0328:25

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Playwriting Then and Now

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Playwriting Then and Now