Making Plays

Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.

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DUNCAN WU is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His publications include Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1815, Romanticism: An Anthology and Six Contemporary Dramatists.

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Introduction Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Howard Brenton, Bloody Poetry (1984-8); M.Stafford-Clark Alan Bennett, The Madness of George III (1991); N.Hytner David Edgar, Pentecost (1994); M.Attenborough David Hare, Amy's View (1997); R.Eyre Michael Frayn, Copenhagen (1998); M.Blakemore Appendix I: Howard Brenton's Programme Note for '3 Plays for Utopia: A Howard Brenton Season' (1998) Appendix II: David Hare's Programme Note to Shaw's Heartbreak House (1997) Bibliography Index