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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Letter: Athol Fugard obituary by David Aukin

In 1988 Athol Fugard was in London, directing his play A Place With the Pigs at the National Theatre. I was its executive director at the time, and asked him what he thought about the theatr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Bernard Pomerance obituary by David Aukin

My friend Bernard Pomerance, who has died aged 76, was a playwright and poet whose most famous work was the play The Elephant Man. It had its first run in Britain in 1977, then went over to …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM
Friday, October 23, 2015

Letter: Brian Friel’s Translations by David Aukin

The finest play I’ve read in manuscript before being produced is Translations by Brian Friel, in my opinion still the wisest and most perceptive understanding of the issues around Anglo-Ir…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:57PM