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John Arden

December 2017

  • Coventry’s old cathedral shell and new modern cathedral, with Jacob Epstein’s St Michael and the devil sculpture adorning the wall

    Recalling Coventry’s great cultural heyday

    Letters: John Green remembers growing up in Coventry after the war when world-famous artists and architects flocked to the city. And Ian Joyce wonders why a replica of Frank Whittle’s first jet aircraft adorns a Lutterworth traffic island

September 2015

  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, Joanna Lumley in The Cherry Orchard and Mark Rylance in Jerusalem

    From Oedipus to The History Boys: Michael Billington's 101 greatest plays

    In his new book, the Guardian’s theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any language – so do you agree?

September 2013

  • brecht

    Bertolt Brecht: irresistible force or forgotten chapter in theatrical history?

    Brecht's belief that drama should present moral ideas through action is unfashionable, but as theatre becomes ever more narcissistic, audiences are seeking him out again, writes Michael Billington

November 2012

  • Michael Billington

    Playwright John Arden: a great talent who should never be forgotten

    Michael Billington
    Michael Billington: While the glitterati assembled at the Savoy for the Evening Standard theatre awards, I was at London's Royal Court watching a fine cast give a brilliantly clear account of Arden's neglected masterpiece

April 2012

  • John Arden

    Letter: 'John Arden was a fine radio playwright as well as a stage dramatist of towering achievement'

  • John Arden Picketing

    Theatre blog
    John Arden: a playwright ahead of his time

March 2012

  • John Arden

    John Arden obituary

    Playwright whose work combined poetry, politics and passion

February 2010

  • Enter the new wave of political playwrights

    From Lydia Adetunji to Adam Brace, a fine new generation of political playwrights is emerging, says David Edgar, while the latest theatrical firebrands tell us what motivates them

January 2004

  • Britain's Brecht

    John Arden was at the forefront of innovative drama in the '60s yet has made little money from his work. Said to be the heir of the English literary dissident tradition of Blake and Shelley, he fell out with the UK theatrical establishment and moved to Ireland with his wife and artistic collaborator Margaretta D'Arcy. There he continues to write challenging plays and novels

October 2003

  • Twisted tales

  • Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

September 2003

  • Serjeant Musgrave rides again

    John Arden's classic anti-colonial play has resurfaced. And the timing, he tells Michael Billington, is no coincidence.

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