Looking Back: Playwrights at the Royal Court, 1956-2006

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A captivating collection of new interviews by Harriet Devine, the daughter of the first Artistic Director of the Royal Court, George Devine, to celebrate the theatre's fifty year anniversary. The book contains conversations with over thirty celebrated playwrights whose work has been produced at the Royal Court; from John Arden, whose first Court play was staged in 1957, to the young writer Simon Farquhar, whose premiere production is programmed for 2006. The exciting list of writers includes Sebastian Barry, Richard Bean, Martin Crimp, Anne Jellicoe, Terry Johnson, Hanif Kureishi, Conor McPherson, David Storey, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Arnold Wesker and Snoo Wilson. Concluding the volume is an interview with Graham Whybrow, Literary Manager of the Royal Court.

Harriet Devine was Literary Manager of the Royal Court Theatre from 1968 to 1969 and is daughter of George Devine, Founder and Artistic Director of the Royal Court from 1956 to 1965. She is reader in English Literature at Edge Hill College in Lancashire, and has written and edited many books and articles on eighteenth and nineteenth century writers and poets.