A journey to the North, into the playwright's past, provides the genesis for ‘Light Falls’, opening at the Royal Exchange Light Falls is the sixth play that I have written for the Royal …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:34AMI was a schoolteacher before I started writing for the theatre. I taught at Eastbrook School in Dagenham, a large comprehensive school
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe playwright describes the first day of rehearsal of a new play produced by a new companyAll theatre workers have a day that they dread. For actors there is a particular terror about a fir…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:24AMAs his play The Funfair opens at the new arts centre Home, Simon Stephens reflects on his relationship with the city where it ‘feels as if something remarkable might happen’Two years ago…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31PMWhat can Bizet’s great opera – and the globetrotting singers who perform it – tell us about our own disconnected lives? Playwright Simon Stephens on how the characters and music of Car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMHolman 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 a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMAny English-language version of Chekhov is doomed. The nature of translation means that to think otherwise is folly Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFrom Punk Rock to Motortown, Simon Stephens's plays have always had a distinctive sound. Listen to a song for each title in his back catalogue Interview: Simon Stephens on Birdland Birdland …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:52AMThe Smiths, a dead sparrow, heading home on the top deck of the 192 bus … Simon Stephens on writing Port, about the town he thought he'd left behindOne Monday morning before Christmas, I s…
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