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Health | Harold Pinter | A year or two into the new millennium HP
began to get indigestion and to feel weak and exhausted. An endoscopy revealed oesophagal cancer. He planned for chemotherapy, then surgery. In February 2002 he learned... |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | The reanimation of FB
's comedies is a happy story. Tara Ghoshal Wallace
edited A Busy Day in paperback in 1984. A fringe production performed in Bristol in 1993, then in Islington, London, in... |
Literary responses | Louise Page | Most reviewers preferred the first part. Michael Billington
, reviewing for The Guardian, praised the play as less an anti-war diatribe than a feeling of the texture of ordinary lives. Eisen, Kurt. “Louise Page”. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Source Book, edited by William W. Demastes, Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 291 -00. 293 |
Literary responses | Caryl Churchill | Nearly forty years on, critic Michael Billington
wrote that Owners had announced the arrival of a major talent I signally failed to recognise. Billington, Michael. “The room that roared”. The Guardian, pp. G2: 19 - 20. G2: 20 |
Literary responses | Louise Page | LP
was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it. Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen, 1997. xii |
Literary responses | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Some reviews (from Michael Billington
, for instance) were favourable; others were stinkers, complaining of melodrama and missed opportunity. Since the critics' night followed the Evening Standard theatre awards (a notoriously boozy mid-day occasion),... |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | In 2018 critic Michael Billington
described the play as insightful, honest, and shocking. Its shock was topical: audiences gasped when a character told he can escape deportation by securing his citizenship for fifty pounds bitterly... |
Literary responses | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Reviewer Michael Billington
thought highly of this exciting, provocative play, in which he discerned the same epic reach as in TW
's recent radio adaptation of War and Peace. Billington, Michael. “Jeffersons Garden review—Timberlake Wertenbakers American tragedy”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Caryl Churchill | The author said her play was a political event, not just a theatre event. Brown, Mark. “Royal Court acts fast with Gaza crisis play”. The Guardian. |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | Michael Billington
wrote that Wine in the Wilderness is about the moral value of personal truth, while Wateris about the commercial value of artistic lies. Billington, Michael. “White out”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Gillian Slovo | Michael Billington
wrote that Slovo's skillfully edited pieceasks the right questions in a way that is clear, gripping and necessary. He also wrote: It is fascinating. But is it theatre? He then answered his... |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | Michael Billington
in the Guardian called the whole ensemble an engrossing evening and a potent reminder that theatre, among its myriad other functions, has a mission to inform. “Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights. |
Literary responses | Gillian Slovo | Michael Billington
found this play richly informative and utterly compelling. Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Caryl Churchill | Michael Billington
found the final section reminiscent of Samuel Beckett. He wrote: While initially it seems slight, I find it's grown steadily in the mind since I saw it. Billington, Michael. “Here We Go review’Caryl Churchill’s chilling reminder of our mortality”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Pam Gems | This play brought PG
's work to the attention of critics and playgoers alike. While reviews were generally quite positive, some had difficulty accepting the play's feminist perspective. For instance, Ted Whitehead
in The Spectator... |