Playwright best known for The Herbal Bed and his RSC collaborations with the director Bill AlexanderThe playwright Peter Whelan, who has died aged 82, lived a full life before turning to the stage in his middle years. He became one of the Royal Shakespeare Company's most notable beneficiaries of a "good new plays in smaller venues" policy of the 1980s, a contemporary counterweight to the main business of Sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM on July 10, 2014