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Robert Holman

December 2021

  • ‘Love is paying attention’ … Robert Holman.

    ‘It takes great courage to write that way’: David Eldridge on Robert Holman

  • Robert Holman in 2003.

    Robert Holman, ‘extraordinary and influential’ playwright, dies aged 69

September 2021

  • Penny Downie and Sylvestra Le Touzel in The Lodger by Robert Holman.

    The Lodger review – fights, forgiveness and midlife reckonings

    There’s an intriguing story about sibling betrayal buried among the distracting subplots in Robert Holman’s play

March 2016

  • George Evans (Jack) and Howard Ward (Martin) in German Skerries

    German Skerries review – time stands still for Holman’s twitchers by the Tees

    There are beautifully understated performances in this revival of Robert Holman’s quiet play about life in 70s Teesside

March 2015

  • a breakfast of eels

    A Breakfast of Eels review – a gradual erosion of sibling secrets

    Robert Holman’s new play, especially written for its two actors, is a precise and subtle picture of a family crisis
  • A Breakfast of Eels

    A Breakfast of Eels review – a tender tale of thwarted love

    This portrayal of two men who struggle to express their feelings for each other has moments of great beauty but is all too restrained
  • Balletic counterpoint of language and imagery … Robert Holman.

    Simon Stephens: My favourite living writer? Robert Holman, dramatist of secrets and shyness

    Holman has spent four decades writing plays of startling beauty about the emotional turmoil of quiet lives

March 2008

  • Theatre blog
    The appalling and beautiful world of Robert Holman

    At Manchester's Royal Exchange, Jonah and Otto is proof of this playwright's extraordinary vision

September 2003

  • Robert Holman

    'Are my plays any good? I haven't a clue'

    Robert Holman talks to Lyn Gardner about the wisdom of monkeys, underwater fantasies - and why, after 30 years, fame finally beckons
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