Frontline Drama 5: Bush Theatre Book

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A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Bush Theatre Two new plays, Mackerel Sky by Hilary Fannin and Caravan by Helen Blakeman, are accompanied by highlights and reminiscences from Bush writers, actors and directors including Alan Plater, Dominic Dromgoole, Simon Callow, Victoria Wood, David Edgar, Philip Ridley, Snoo Wilson, Robert Holman, Jonathan Harvey, Conor McPherson, Kevin Elyot and Catherine Johnson. "The West End may be starved of new work, but real drama flourishes at the Bush" Michael Billington

Giles Havergal has been, since 1969 the director, with Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald, of the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow. Mark Wheatley is an English playwright, whose plays include The Street of Crocodiles (with Simon Burney for Theatre de Complicite, 1992), Foe (1996), So Close to Home (2008) and Swan Song (2012). Michael Boyd is a British theatre director. He trained at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre in Moscow and worked at a number of significant in the United Kingdom theatres, including The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, The Sheffield Crucible and The Tron (Glasgow) before becoming Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003 - a position he held until 2012.