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Thursday, May 26, 2022

Cancelling Socrates: how the great philosopher sealed his fate with comedy by Howard Brenton

Playwright Howard Brenton asks why ancient Athens turned on its famous citizen, and how such an uncompromising free-thinker might fare in our own ‘age of rage’ Did Socrates “cancel” …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM
Monday, September 4, 2017

The 'self-experimenter': Howard Brenton on Strindberg in crisis by Howard Brenton

Brenton's new play 'The Blinding Light' tells the story of August Strindberg’s Paris breakdownI wrote The Blinding Light to try to understand the mental and spiritual crisis…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:33AM
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Stand up for West Bank's Freedom theatre by Howard Brenton

Playwright Howard Brenton on how it's time to stop the harassment and detention of members of Jenin's Freedom theatre – and it isn't just IsraelWhat price the freedom to put on plays? The …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PM
Friday, July 8, 2011

Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation | Howard Brenton by Howard Brenton

As his play Anne Boleyn, a drama of Henry VIII's reign, returns to the Globe, Howard Brenton recalls how it all started with his father's argument with a butcherMy father, who was a Methodis…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PM
Friday, February 4, 2011

Rereading: Howard Brenton on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell by Howard Brenton

On the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell, Howard Brenton celebrates the author's most famous work, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – a working-class Vanity Fair – which he a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
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