Is interviewing playwrights always a good idea? by Mark Lawson

Some dramatists, such as Caryl Churchill and Debbie Tucker Green, refuse point blank to talk about their work. Is this vow of silence defensible " or detrimental?Before the opening of a new work in the UK, the sort of dramatists whose plays win prizes " Stoppard, Bennett, Hare, Mamet " are generally to be found being interviewed in the newspapers or on Start the Week, Front Row or The Culture Show. Yet although Cary…

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