Author of The Horse Whisperer, the 1995 book that was turned into a popular film, starring and directed by Robert Redford
September 2020
Why Geoffrey Cox's A Man for All Seasons clip sends Brexit Britain a potent message
Michael Billington
Tory ex-attorney general is an odd bedfellow for communist playwright Robert Bolt. Yet both believe in the value of the law
August 2016
A look back
From the Observer archive: this week in 1960
Transistor radios
The perils of pocket transistor radio sets
November 2015
Flowering Cherry review – a good play overshadowed by a great one
Robert Bolt’s 1957 play highlights the domestic tensions of a man at loggerheads with his family – and the echoes of Death of a Salesman are deafening
June 2008
Theatre preview
A Man For All Seasons, York | Les Parents Terrible, Dundee | Running The Silk Road, On tour | 2,000 Feet Away, London | Black Comedy, Newbury | Old People, Children And Animals, Manchester | Aesop's Fables, Plymouth |
January 2006
Doubtful Thomas
A Man for All Seasons
July 2003
A Man For All Seasons, London, July 1960
The premiere of Robert Bolt's play at the Globe Theatre on July 1, 1960 perplexed the critics - and sparked a debate about the cosmos.
