Hampstead theatre, LondonAlan Plater's 60s-set play honouring agent Peggy Ramsay hasn't aged well " her once maverick ideas now look outmoded Henry Livings felt that "all plays about writers should be burned, with the exception of Present Laughter." So Alan Plater says in the prelude of this play, all about the life of writers, which premiered at the Hampstead theatre in 1999. Despite Plater's knowing irony, Living…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM on December 19, 2021