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The play that changed my life

Leading voices from the arts and beyond recall a momentous theatrical discovery

  • Jimmy Jewel, Dave Hill and Jonathan Pryce in Comedians at the National Theatre in 1975.

    The play that changed my life: ‘Comedians got me the job running the National Theatre’

    Our series on theatrical discoveries continues with Trevor Griffiths’ incandescent examination of laughter and prejudice, remembered by the director who first put it on
  • Giles Terera as Aaron Burr, centre, in Hamilton on London’s West End.

    The play that changed my life: ‘I fell in love with Hamilton – it gave me confidence for my own script’

    Our series on transformative theatrical discoveries continues with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical, as remembered by the man who played Aaron Burr on its London premiere in 2017
  • Marcello Magni and Simon McBurney in the 2005 revival of A Minute Too Late, which was first performed in 1985.

    The play that changed my life: Complicité’s A Minute Too Late was a matter of life and death

    Our series on transformative theatrical discoveries continues with the moving 1984 show exploring our buttoned-up approach to mortality
  • Liz White, Lemn Sissay and Faye Marsay in a 2017 revival of Road by Jim Cartwright at the Royal Court theatre, London, directed by John Tiffany.

    The play that changed my life: Jim Cartwright’s ‘rude, raucous and deadly serious’ Road

    Our new series on transformative theatrical discoveries begins with the surreal 1986 drama set on a street in Lancashire
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