The Magna Carta Plays
4 authors - Paperback
£14.99
Howard Brenton's early plays were produced at the Royal Court, RSC and National Theatre. More recently he became the lead writer on TV's Spooks, before a return to the stage with Paul (2005) and Never So Good (2008) at the National Theatre and In Extremis (2006) and Anne Boleyn (2010) at Shakespeare's Globe. Anders Lustgarten won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwright's Award for If You Don't Let Us Dream We Won't Let You Sleep at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs. He is currently under commission to the Royal Court and the National Theatre among several others, and is also adapting David Peace's The Damned United for a national stage tour. His newest plays, Shrapnel (Arcola Theatre) and Lampedusa (Soho Theatre), opened in Spring 2015. Timberlake Wertenbaker is working on new commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bolton Octagon and Salisbury Playhouse. Our Country’s Good will be produced at the National Theatre in 2015, directed by Nadia Fall. Sally Woodcock’s first full length play Fanta Orange was nominated for Best New Play at the OffWestEnd awards and longlisted for Time Out’s Best New Play 2011 Award. Sally holds an MA in Text and Performance from RADA / KCL and an MPHIL from Cambridge University in Art, Culture and Education and has participated in the Royal Court Invitation Group for new writers.