The writer on working with Northern Broadsides on 'For Love or Money'Is there anything more terrifying for a playwright than the first day of rehearsals? For months, even years, yo…
Alan Bennett, who turns 75 on Saturday, is a writer who captures the nuances of English life like no other. Blake Morrison salutes the comic writer who became a national treasureBirthdays we…
The Brontës are often dismissed as up-market Mills & Boon. But with the release of two films this autumn, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they look set to rival even Jane Austen in …
From Austen to Waugh to McEwan, great novelists have been drawn to stately homes. Why are grand country houses such a national literary obsession, asks Blake MorrisonThe stately homes of Eng…
My new adaptation will portray Natasha, Masha and Olga as Charlotte, Emily and Anne. It's not as far-fetched as you might imagine …"You should do Three Sisters as the Brontës," the Obse…
Although little-known, Harold Pinter's Moonlight, revived at the Donmar, is his quintessential play. Along with familiar themes of grief, guilt and infidelity, lies a preoccupation with powe…