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 Exch…
I was a schoolteacher before I started writing for the theatre. I taught at Eastbrook School in Dagenham, a large comprehensive school
The 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…
As 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, th…
What 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 Carmen in…
Holman 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…
Any English-language version of Chekhov is doomed. The nature of translation means that to think otherwise is folly Continue reading...
From 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 …
The 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…