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Thursday, March 13, 2025

The play that changed my life: how a pratfall in a student fringe farce made James Graham a playwright by James Graham

Performing in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist during A-levels was a lesson in low-art laughs and political anger that unites an audience It was 1999. I was doing A-levels in As…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM

Monday, September 5, 2022

At last the curtain falls on Boris Johnson: the pantomime prime minister utterly lacking in character | James Graham by James Graham

‘Boris’ favoured pixie dust rather than trust, and barefaced lies rather than resignation with honour More panto than Pericles. As the curtain comes down early on yet another prime minis…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AM

Thursday, December 17, 2020

We Begin Again: a musical for 2020 – video by Noah Payne-Frank, Jess Gormley, Amy Hodge, James Graham, Jim Fortune, Emily Lim and Lara Taylor

Written by the Olivier award winner James Graham and produced by the Guardian in partnership with the National Theatre, this short musical film is a unifying song for the country to take …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM

Thursday, June 18, 2020

British theatre has a class problem, and coronavirus could make it worse by James Graham

To return the theatre to health, we need more diversity among artists and audiences - and cheaper tickets Theatre, ultimately, is not about buildings or props or sets – it’s about people…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM

Friday, September 6, 2019

Cracked actor: stage stars review Boris Johnson's debut as PM by Jon Culshaw, James Graham, Bridget Christie and Mark Lawson

Impressionist Jon Culshaw, playwright James Graham, comedian Bridget Christie and critic Mark Lawson on the prime minister’s opening week in Westminster I’ve been doing Boris impressions…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM

Thursday, September 20, 2018

James Graham: 'the country of Shakespeare no longer recognises arts as a core subject' by James Graham

Full transcript of the playwright's passionate speech about the importance of the arts at the Hospital Club's h100 AwardsThank you. It’s an honour to have been asked to speak her…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:12AM

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

James Graham: Positive interventions can help theatre cope with age of extremes by James Graham

That anyone should be ignored, denied access to or ‘put off’ an artistic workplace because of who they are or where they

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM

Monday, June 26, 2017

Burn, a new play by James Graham – read the script by James Graham

Meet Mansfield mum and internet troll Carol. From her front room, she sets remainers against leavers on Twitter – then sits back and watches the sparks flyExt. Establishing shot of the str…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

A hung parliament? It’ll be the 1970s again, and people will die | James Graham by James Graham

The last time the ruling party had such a wafer-thin mandate it was a recipe for chaos and extreme stress. My play This House may need a sequelWe’ve been here before, and it wasn’t fun. …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM

Monday, July 18, 2016

A Strong Exit, a new play by James Graham by James Graham

In a new play written for the Guardian, the award-winning writer of political smashes This House and The Vote goes inside the Brexit bunker as its sweaty-palmed task force prepare to trigger…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The five stages of British gags: silliness, repression, anger, innuendo, fear by James Graham

Are you Fawlty, Edina, Partridge or Brent? In his new play Monster Raving Loony, James Graham examines what 70 years of comedy reveal about ourselves – through the story of Screaming Lord …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AM

Monday, April 14, 2014

Do the British care about privacy? by James Graham

After his hit political play This House, the playwright James Graham is looking at the erosion of our private lives in his upcoming piece for the Donmar Warehouse. Here he explains why

SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:00AM

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