T01430470896Following the success of Write to Play, presenting leading playwrights in venues across London, the series will continue at Southwark Playhouse on Sunday 20th May at 8.pm with April De Angelis. She will be in conversation with Chris Campbell, Literary Manager of the Royal Court, about her life, career and work, prior to scenes from one of her plays being read. The evening will conclude with a question and answer session. | |
| 20 May 12 | Southwark Playhouse Borough, Inner London :: V226 listing details L0629843029 |
T1440837159Following the success of Write to Play, presenting leading playwrights in venues across London, the series will continue at the Soho Theatre on Wednesday 4th May at 8.pm with Laura Wade. She will be in conversation with Chris Campbell, Literary Manager of the Royal Court, about her life, career and work, prior to scenes from her play Kreutzer Vs. Kreutzer being read. The evening will conclude with a question and answer session. Born in Sheffield and a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, Laura Wade gained early success with Colder Than Here at Soho Theatre (2005) and Breathing Corpses at the Royal Court (2005), for which she won the Critics’ Circle Most Promising Playwright Award. Her play Posh ran to rave reviews and sell-out audiences at the Royal Court in 2010. Laura’s writing is darkly funny and keenly observant and is fast making her one of our most exciting talents. Other plays include: Other Hands (Soho Theatre, 2006); and Catch (Royal Court, 2006). Write to Play events focus on a contemporary playwright, changing venues each time and striving to give audiences the opportunity to engage with playwrights. | |
| 4 May 11 | Soho Theatre, Inner London :: V1035 listing details L02041891714 |
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| 16 Nov 09 | Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, Outer London :: V315 listing details L1536204198 |
Philip Ridley - T0871815179 | |
| 20 Sep 09 | Southwark Playhouse Borough, Inner London :: V226 listing details L940924147 |
Rona Munro - T01475837141 | |
| 24 Aug 09 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh :: V605 listing details L440738284 |
Howard Brenton - T130771281Following the success of Write to Play in presenting leading playwrights in venues across London, the series will continue at The Globe Theatre on Monday 29 June 7.45pm with Howard Brenton. He will be in conversation about his life, career and work prior to extracts from his plays Greenland and In Extremis being read. The evening will conclude with a question and answer session. | |
| 29 Jun 09 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L768286305 |
T0558914402In the Same Boat, a new company focusing on playwrights, will present Write to Play - an evening with one of Britain’s most controversial and successful playwrights to emerge in the 1990s, Mark Ravenhill, on Sunday 30 November at 8pm at Theatre 503, The Latchmere. The audience will be introduced to Mark Ravenhill’s life and work after which volunteers can participate in reading from Mark’s rarely seen play about the Millennium Dome and the community it changed forever, North Greenwich and join in a discussion with him about his styles, methods and themes of writing. Mark Ravenhill is known for his controversial plays with their acute social observation. Within a decade Mark moved from putting on small productions at fringe venues to becoming an Associate Director at the National Theatre. Since then he has written plays for many of the leading British theatre companies, for television and radio and writes a regular column on culture for The Guardian This marks the first event of the company In the Same Boat which will focus on one prolific playwright every month, changing venues each time and striving to give audiences the opportunity to directly engage with playwrights.Producer In the Same Boat. | |
| 30 Nov 08 | Theatre503, Inner London :: V232 listing details L01354238736 |
