James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin are starring in The Constituent, a play that asks if MPs are no longer safe. Here, its writer explores what politicians wearing stab vests means for demo…
The playwright pays tribute to the director's complex mind, sophistication and clairvoyant sense of what would work Michael Billington: 'Michell brought the unexpected out of actors' The col…
The work of his friend and fellow playwright, says Penhall, was warm, incisive, unassuming but clever " just like the man'You're not going to like me …" Thus began The Libertine, the most …
Gender politics and creative differences are explored in Joe Penhall's drama about the record industry. He shares his journey through music psychologyWhen I was 11, I wrote to George Martin …