Hampstead, LondonWilliam Boyd is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Until now, though, he had never written a play. To get himself started, he decided, as he put it, to "stitch together" two short stories by that master short story-writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. "My Life" tells of the son of a smalltown architect who decides to devote himself to manual labour; "A Visit to Friends" features a family abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on March 9, 2013