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Post by bordeaux on Sept 10, 2020 22:33:34 GMT
He could explain why he stopped writing plays and started writing newspaper articles to be recited on stage by various actors in a ‘serious’ way. Because he could. The only reason he can is because the country's most significant artistic directors want to put them on and our finest actors keep wanting to appear in them. Unless you're suggesting he has some sinister hold over Hytner and Eyre and Kent and all the other people he has worked with. They presumably think he is a great writer.
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Post by Jan on Sept 11, 2020 11:51:30 GMT
The only reason he can is because the country's most significant artistic directors want to put them on and our finest actors keep wanting to appear in them. Unless you're suggesting he has some sinister hold over Hytner and Eyre and Kent and all the other people he has worked with. They presumably think he is a great writer. He’s very much part of the old/white/male/Oxbridge/left-wing theatre establishment that tends - maybe unconsciously - to favour people exactly like themselves - people they meet socially - hence maybe his outrage when the NT appointed someone he hadn’t even met.
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Post by londonpostie on Sept 11, 2020 14:47:06 GMT
With so many other parallels shaping up, I'm scanning the horizon now for Kier Starmer's own David Hare ..
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