Simon Stephens: My favourite living writer? Robert Holman, dramatist of secrets and shyness by Simon Stephens

Holman has spent four decades writing plays of startling beauty, bringing his watchfulness and compassion to bear on the emotional turmoil of quiet livesThere is a temptation when we write about theatre to try to disguise our subjectivity as objectivity. It's a temptation encouraged by the conventions of criticism and academia. As students we are trained to hide our personal, individual voices. As critics we aspire t…

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