The play that changed my life
Leading voices from the arts and beyond recall a momentous theatrical discovery
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
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
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
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