Jack Thorne's baby son was a key influence on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. So it was a big day when he was old enough to see it with the playwright for the first time A few weeks ago I…
The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud's struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths I have s…
When the playwright was asked to adapt Georg Büchner's fragmented masterpiece he screamed inside. He explains how he got to the soul of the playGeorg Büchner's Woyzeck is a triumphant howl…
Junk playgrounds had sheer drops, death-defying rope swings and were always being set on fire. The playwright explains why he has written a show about these chaotic spaces and the kids who b…
Everyone told me to do something else but I persevered as a playwright thanks to Simon Stephens, who said every writer has a myth. It's puzzled me ever since… ' Mark Lawson meets Jack Thor…