Peter Whelan by Michael Coveney

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…

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