Bristol’s Theatre Department has a long history of producing some major figures in British theatre, television, film and more. For a decade between the mid-eighties and the mid-nineties, it specialised in producing playwrights, some of whom would go on to be the most important playwrights of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries: among others, Sarah Kane, Tim Crouch ... and this event’s panellists.
In this panel we’ll ask what it was about Bristol Theatre that produced so many playwrights, the continuing influence of Bristol on their work, and, more broadly, how each of these writers’ attitudes to writing and theatre have changed over the course of their writing lives, what they’ve learned about writing and theatre, and the wider changing context for playwrights in British theatre and beyond.
Panellists:
- Mark Ravenhill
- David Greig
- Laura Wade
- Dan Rebellato
For further information, please visit the Theatre Department webpage.
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