Playwright Howard Brenton asks why ancient Athens turned on its famous citizen, and how such an uncompromising free-thinker might fare in our own 'age of rage' Did Socrates "cancel" himself?…
Brenton's new play 'The Blinding Light' tells the story of August Strindberg's Paris breakdownI wrote The Blinding Light to try to understand the mental and spiritual crisis t…
Playwright Howard Brenton on how it's time to stop the harassment and detention of members of Jenin's Freedom theatre " and it isn't just IsraelWhat price the freedom to put on plays? The od…
As his play Anne Boleyn, a drama of Henry VIII's reign, returns to the Globe, Howard Brenton recalls how it all started with his father's argument with a butcherMy father, who was a Methodis…
On the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell, Howard Brenton celebrates the author's most famous work, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists " a working-class Vanity Fair " which he adapt…