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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Lynne Kirwin obituary by Valerie Grove

It did not surprise me that Lynne Kirwin became the doyenne of theatre publicists. At Kingsbury county grammar school in London, we auditioned for the same role in the school play, Anouilh�…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM
Saturday, August 29, 2015

How JB Priestley’s Inspector first called on the USSR by Valerie Grove

Priestley’s first postwar play, An Inspector Calls, was premiered not in London but in Leningrad. Seventy years on, and in the runup to both the revival of Stephen Daldry’s classic produ…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AM